Network Management - Bay Networks 5390 Administering

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A DNS server enables a local network to connect to large IP networks, such as the Internet. The

Model 5390 server uses a DNS server for:

1) multiple names for the same Internet address; and 2) multiple Internet addresses for the same host.

The Model 5390 server can build host tables by listening to and extracting host names from RWHO

packets. Although RWHO is not a name server, the Model 5390 server can use it as one. Using

RWHO is adequate for small networks in which all hosts broadcast RWHO packets.

Network Management

The Model 5390 server provides network management and host-based administration that allows

you to manage hundreds of Model 5390 servers remotely from any terminal or SNMP manager

located anywhere on the network.

The Model 5390 server's host-based administration provides tools for downloading the Annex

software from a ﬁle server host. In the unlikely event of software problems, you can also obtain the

Model 5390 dump.

The CLI provides commands that can duplicate the functions of a line monitor or break-out box.

You can issue CLI commands remotely through virtual CLI connections.

Using the CLI commands, you can:

Tap serial ports.

Force control signals from low to high or high to low.

Find out who is connected and if that user is active.

Introduction to the Model 5390 Server