4
L
OCAL
M
ANAGEMENT
B
ASICS
This chapter describes the use of the 7600 Fast Ethernet Interface Card
Administration Console, its Main menu display and its controls. A Menu
Index is also included which provides a reference to the command
description for each menu command.
Management
Capabilities
The administration console configures your 7600 Card. It also provides
some network management capabilities. To augment network
management, you can use an external application, such as 3Com’s
Transcend
TM
Enterprise Manager ATMvLAN Manager.
Administration Console functions include:
Q
System functions administration
Q
Ethernet ports administration
Q
Basic bridge and port features administration
Q
ATM resources configuration
Q
LAN Emulation Clients administration
Q
Virtual Networks management
Q
IP address configuration for system access by Telnet, SNMP, or FTP
Menu Hierarchy
The management commands are organized in a hierarchical menu
system. At first, the Main menu is displayed showing the main topics for
management such as “system”, “ethernet” and “bridge”. Under each
main topic is a submenu which shows more specific command topics.
These submenus may themselves have submenus and so on until the
actual management commands are displayed. The menu structure
appears in Figure 4-1 below.
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