Monitoring The Network With The Console - Olicom CrossFire 8600 Manual To Operations

7. Monitoring the Network with the
Console
This chapter explains how to monitor the CrossFire 8600 Token-Ring Switch or the
CrossFire 8605 Token-Ring Fiber Switch through a directly connected VT100
console or through a VT100 telnet session. To use SNMP (in-band, through the
network management), see Chapter 8, "Monitoring the Network with SNMP".
Topics discussed in this chapter:
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Navigating within the menus
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Statistics menu
— Switch statistics
— Port status
— Port statistics
— Address tables
— Current spanning tree information
— VLAN statistics
— Diagnostic Test Results
— Message Log Information
The information presented on the statistics screens in this chapter is typically used
for monitoring purposes only. This information is usually the result of input data
from the configuration menus (see Chapter 6, "Switch Configuration"). The
specifications presented on the statistic screens normally can not be modified.
Information within the statistics menus are updated (screens are refreshed) every 5
seconds.
The next section explains how to access the statistics menus, and the following
sections describe the information and submenus of the statistics menu.
Note: The switch allows LAN Network Manager LLC frames to flow through the
switch. Therefore, communication between LAN Network Manager and existing
source-route bridges and controlled access units is maintained. However, some
error reporting functions and ring map functions might be lost for the rings attached
to the switch.
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