Module Overview; Using Network Monitor Cards - 3Com CoreBuilder 5000 User Manual

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Module Overview

Token Ring Media Modules are either port-switching or
module-switching. These features:
Enable you to assign either a port or the entire module to a
backplane (hub-wide) or isolated (module-level) network.
Provide you with greater flexibility in both workgroup creation and
module configuration.

Using Network Monitor Cards

The CoreBuilder 5000 scalable network management architecture
enables users to add a CoreBuilder 5000 Token Ring Network Monitor
Card (TR NMC) to the module. This card enables users to achieve SNMP
network connectivity and gather network statistics for any of the
CoreBuilder 5000 Token Ring backplane networks, as well as for any
individual isolated (module-level) network.
Once you attach the card to a module, you must assign the TR NMC
card to the network you want to have inband connections to or gather
statistics on. On module-switched modules, the TR NMC is
automatically assigned to the same network that the media card is
assigned to.
You can install the TR NMC card on Token Ring Media Modules only.
The Distributed Management Module (DMM) does not provide
installation slots for these cards.