Cabletron Systems CyberSWITCH CSX400 User Manual

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CyberMONITOR User’s Guide2-12 CyberMONITOR OverviewThis chapter provides an overview of the functionality of the Cabletron SystemsCyberMONITOR.About The CyberMONITORThe Cabletron Systems CyberMONITOR is a Wide Area Network Monitoring system. TheCyberMONITOR polls status conditions, and monitors network traffic and bandwidth utilizationof WAN (Wide Area Network) devices. The CyberMONITOR compiles this data and statusinformation, and reports these statistics graphically. The data can be printed.The CyberMONITOR has provision for adjusting the polling rates, and presetting start and stoptimes of any monitoring session. The devices to be monitored are selected by entering their IP(Internet Protocol) address and Community Name into a window prior to starting a monitoringsession. The CyberMONITOR then locates and accesses the device to be monitored.An Alarms panel lets you set threshold conditions for aggregate percentages of bandwidth andaggregate errors for each Network Port Interface. The two alarm levels, Warning, and Critical,cause Network Port Interface monitoring panels on the Primary Monitor window to change colorto yellow and red if bandwidth or errors exceeds the alarm levels that you preset.Graphical User InterfaceThe CyberMONITOR employs a graphical user interface, simplifying the process of selectingdevices, ports, etc., to monitor. The Primary Monitor Window (Figure 2-1) shows the EthernetNetwork Port Interfaces, and Wide Area Network port interfaces (Wide Area 1, 2 shown) in thedevice that you are monitoring, as panels. The status conditions (i.e., bandwidth utilization anderror statistics) of each port are also shown in each panel.Functions such as Inverse Multiplexing, Bridging, IP Routing, IPX Routing, etc. will be shown(with relevant statistics) at the bottom of the Primary Monitor Window as separate panels, whenthese functions are enabled.