4 LOCAL M ANAGEMENT BASICSThis chapter describes the use of the 7600 Fast Ethernet Interface CardAdministration Console, its Main menu display and its controls. A MenuIndex is also included which provides a reference to the commanddescription for each menu command.ManagementCapabilitiesThe administration console configures your 7600 Card. It also providessome network management capabilities. To augment networkmanagement, you can use an external application, such as 3Com’sTranscend TM Enterprise Manager ATMvLAN Manager.Administration Console functions include:Q System functions administrationQ Ethernet ports administrationQ Basic bridge and port features administrationQ ATM resources configurationQ LAN Emulation Clients administrationQ Virtual Networks managementQ IP address configuration for system access by Telnet, SNMP, or FTPMenu Hierarchy The management commands are organized in a hierarchical menusystem. At first, the Main menu is displayed showing the main topics formanagement such as “system”, “ethernet” and “bridge”. Under eachmain topic is a submenu which shows more specific command topics.These submenus may themselves have submenus and so on until theactual management commands are displayed. The menu structureappears in Figure 4-1 below.abtthgde.book Page 1 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM
