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Viewing Chassis Information 2-9
The SmartSwitch 7000 Chassis View
The Board Menus
The Board menu for the 7X00 Control Module (always installed in slot 1) provides
mostly bridging-related selections, many of which are also available from the
Bridge Status window:
¥ Spanning Tree... , which allows you to set bridge parameters when it is
operating using the Spanning Tree Algorithm (STA) Ð the method that bridges
use to decide the controlling (root) bridge when two or more bridges are in
parallel. See the bridging chapter of your
Tools Guide for more information.
¥ Disable/Enable Bridge , which enables or disables bridging across every
interface installed in the SmartSwitch 7000 chassis.
¥ Module Type... , which brings up a window containing a description of the
selected board; see Viewing Hardware Types , page 2-13 .
¥ Performance Graph... , which visually displays the combined performance of
all bridging interfaces installed in the SmartSwitch 7000 hub; see the bridging
chapter of your
Tools Guide .
Board menus for other NIMs displayed in the Chassis View window provide only
the
Module Type selection.
The Port Menus
Each port menu offers the following selections:
¥ Performance Graph... , which brings up windows that visually display
bridging performance at the selected interface; see the bridging chapter of
your
Tools Guide for details.
¥ Source Addressing..., which allows you to view the MAC addresses that are
communicating through a selected bridge interface; see the bridging chapter
of your
Tools Guide for details.
¥ I/F Statistics... , which graphically displays color-coded statistical information
for each bridge interface; see the bridging chapter of the Tools Guide for
details.
¥ ConÞguration... , which launches the conÞguration window appropriate to the
selected port: for standard Ethernet and FDDI ports, the conÞguration
window allows you to set the Duplex Mode; for Fast Ethernet ports, it allows
you to conÞgure a number of different options, including auto-negotiation. See
ConÞguring Ports , page 2-23 ; note that there is no ConÞguration currently
available for ATM ports.
¥ Alarm ConÞguration... , which launches the RMON-based Basic and
Advanced Alarm applications; see Chapter 4, Alarm ConÞguration , for
details. Note that this selection is available for all bridge port interfaces Ñ even
those (like FDDI and ATM) that do not speciÞcally support RMON
functionality Ñ as long as at least one Ethernet or Fast Ethernet NIM is
installed in the chassis.