ELSA LANCOM Business 6000, Manual

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4.8 ELSA LANmonitor —know what's happening
The ELSA LANmonitor includes a monitoring tool with which you can view the
most important information on the status of your routers on your monitor at
any time under Windows operating systems—of all of the
ELSA LANCOM
Business routers in the network.
Many of the internal messages generated by the devices are converted to
plain text, thereby helping you to troubleshoot.
You can also use ELSA LANmonitor to monitor the traffic on the router's
various interfaces to collect important information on the settings you can
use to optimize data traffic.
In addition to the device statistics that can also be read out during a Telnet
or terminal session or using
ELSA WEBconfig , a variety of other useful
options are also available in the ELSA LANmonitor .
4.8.1 ELSA LANmonitor installation
Usually, ELSA LANmonitor is automatically installed together with ELSA
LANconfig on the computer from which you wish to configure your router.
If ELSA LANmonitor is not yet installed on your computer, place the ELSA
LANCOM Business in your CD drive. If the setup program does not
automatically start when you insert the CD, simply click 'autorun.exe' on the
ELSA LANCOM Business CD in the Windows Explorer. Otherwise, click on the
My Computer icon and double-click the icon of your CD-ROM drive. Double-
click on 'Autorun.exe' to launch the file. The setup program will then start.
During the installation you should activate the LANmonitor .
With ELSA LANmonitor you can only monitor those devices that you can
access inband in the local network via IP. With this program you cannot
access a router via the serial interface. It is also not possible to access
devices in remote networks that can only be reached via intermediate routers
with ELSA LANmonitor.
4.8.2 Checking you Internet connection
To demonstrate the functions of ELSA LANmonitor we will first show you the
types of information ELSA LANmonitor provides about connections being
established to your Internet provider.