Menu Hierarchy
4-3
Port Context
For the purpose of management, the 16 Fast Ethernet ports of the 7600
Card are divided into four contexts as follows:
.
The management menus and commands focus on one context at a time.
Each menu has the currently active context displayed above it. To work
with a certain port, use the above table to ascertain which context it is in.
For example, ports 1, 2, 9, 10 belong to context #1. Then change to
context n, by entering “.n” at the command prompt as discussed below.
From then on, the menus related to the ports in that context will be
displayed.
Selecting Menu
Options
The angle bracket symbol (
>
) is displayed below each menu and prompts
the keyboard entry of a menu option. A menu option can be entered
either by option number or option name. Only the first unique
character(s) of the menu option name needs to be entered.
For menu options below the Main menu, the menu option label precedes
the angle bracket prompt. Successive submenu prompts define the
hierarchical path from the most recently invoked (and most deeply
embedded) submenu to the original (root) Main menu option. When
there are no more submenus to call up, the last submenu option entered
produces a double angle bracket prompt (
>>
). This prompt indicates that
menu option parameters must now be entered.
Example
Thus, for example, entering
3
after the Main menu prompt produces the
bridge
submenu, with its various options, and a command line
following the prompt:
(3)bridge>
Keying in this submenu’s
4
option gives you the prompt:
(3)bridge\(4)stp>,
Table 4-1 Port Context
Contex
t
#0
Contex
t
#1
Contex
t
#2
Contex
t
#3
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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