Cabletron Systems CyberSWITCH CSX400 User Manual

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CyberMONITOR OverviewCyberMONITOR User’s Guide2-3Port Interface Stats PanelsThe Ethernet Ports are represented by the Ethernet 1, and Ethernet 2 Port panels. The Wide Area 1,and Wide Area 2 panels show ISDN transmission mode, and Drop and Insert (DI) mode, noprotocol set. Inside each panel are the statistics for Bandwidth Utilization for Transmit (Tx) andReceive (Rx), and error statistics for these ports. The panels are typical of the Ethernet and WideArea interfaces installed in devices being monitored.At the bottom of the Primary Monitor Window is a panel indicating any special functions beingemployed by the device. In this instance, Bridging is being employed on the two Wide Areanetwork interfaces. Discards from the bridging function are shown as a percentage of the totaltraffic. Other functions that might be employed such as IP Routing, and IPX Routing, etc., willalso be represented by a panel (bottom of the options window) similar to the one in Figure 2-1.Primary Monitor Window Function MenuThere are five menu items at the top of the Primary Monitor Window. A brief description of thefunction of each menu item follows:• File menu - selecting the File menu lets you access five more menu items that either selectconfiguration data, or access a New Device menu to select a new device to monitor, orresume polling. They are: New Device, Resume Polling, Print, Preferences, and Exit.• Tables menu - selecting the Tables menu lets you access the expanded data tables for eachenabled function that the device is configured for. The selections are: Bridging, IPRouting, IPX Routing, Frame Relay, and Inverse MUX.• Custom menu - This menu displays the Bandwidth Thresholds, or Errors Thresholdsalarm panels, used for setting aggregate bandwidth and aggregate error alarm levels.• Traps menu - This menu displays the Configure Traps, and View Traps menu items. TheConfigure Traps item lets you configure a device, or devices, to send traps to yourdesignated IP Address. The View Traps menu item lets you monitor a device, or devices,for traps generated by them.• Help menu- There are four items on this menu. Help on Help accesses the on line helpsystem. Contents takes you to the main Help Window. Click on Help Topics to see thecontents. The About Device menu item brings up a Device Properties Window (shown inFigure 2-2) which lists the device type, firmware version, Boot Prom version, and the IPAddress and MAC Address of the device. The About CyberMONITOR menu item liststhe current revision of CyberMONITOR.