Cabletron Systems Lancast Media Converter 7000, User Manual

Page 1: ...Title Page SmartSwitch 7000 User s Guide...

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Page 3: ...es to the effect that the Licensed Software is virus free Copyright 1998 by Cabletron Systems Inc All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Order Number 9031895 02 July 1998 Cabletro...

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Page 7: ...a Port Status View 2 10 Port Status Color Codes 2 12 The Chassis Manager Window 2 12 Viewing Hardware Types 2 13 Device Type 2 14 Module Type 2 14 Viewing I F Summary Information 2 15 Interface Perfor...

Page 8: ...Viewing the Basic Alarm Log 4 9 Advanced Alarm Con guration 4 10 Accessing the RMON Advanced Alarm Event List 4 10 Creating and Editing an Advanced Alarm 4 13 Creating and Editing an Event 4 19 Adding...

Page 9: ...tSwitch Control Module and two for its own family of Network Interface Modules or NIMs The 7C04 Workgroup SmartSwitch is a stand alone chassis that offers four slots one for the controller and three f...

Page 10: ...rt Interface Module slot and another 11 via built in UTP RJ45s The 7H06 02 Fast Ethernet uplink module which provides two Fast Ethernet connections via Fast Ethernet Port Interface Module slots The 7A...

Page 11: ...splay of the SmartSwitch 7000 chassis and explains how to use the mouse within the Chassis View the operation of several chassis level management functions such as changing the chassis display enablin...

Page 12: ...rm and Event Handling User s Guide Cabletron Systems Network Troubleshooting Guide Microsoft Corporation s Microsoft Windows User s Guide For more information about the capabilities of the SmartSwitch...

Page 13: ...M Element Manager Note that although each interface in the SmartSwitch 7000 hub has its own MAC or physical address only a single IP address is assigned Location Displays the user de ned location of t...

Page 14: ...structions may also explicitly refer to both left and right mouse buttons Instructions to perform a mouse operation include the following terms Pointing means to position the mouse cursor over an area...

Page 15: ...t window For more information concerning Help buttons see Getting Help page 1 7 The command buttons for example call up a menu listing the windows screens or commands available for that topic Any menu...

Page 16: ...For additional information about Cabletron Systems products visit our World Wide Web site http www cabletron com For technical support select Service and Support SmartSwitch 7000 Firmware SPECTRUM El...

Page 17: ...ts they occupy and displays the condition of individual interfaces on those boards The Chassis View window serves as a single point of access to all other SmartSwitch 7000 windows and screens which ar...

Page 18: ...he 7C04 and 7C04 R Workgroup SmartSwitches show the modules in a horizontal position Note too that the slots in the 7C03 chassis are numbered from left to right in the 7C04 chassis they re numbered to...

Page 19: ...Viewing Chassis Information 2 3 The SmartSwitch 7000 Chassis View Figure 2 2 SmartSwitch Chassis View Windows 7C03 MMAC SmartSwitch 7C04 R Workgroup SmartSwitch 7C04 Workgroup SmartSwitch...

Page 20: ...l change in the hub such as when a board is inserted note that board and port menus are inactive during this stand by state Blue indicates an unknown contact status polling has not yet been establishe...

Page 21: ...By clicking on various areas of the SmartSwitch 7000 Chassis View display you can access menus with device board and port level options as well as utility applications which apply to the device The fo...

Page 22: ...which displays a window containing a description of the device being modeled 7C03 MMAC SmartSwitch 7C04 WorkGroup SmartSwitch or 7C04 R WorkGroup SmartSwitch Edit Device Time and Edit Device Date whic...

Page 23: ...ion for each port and allows you to access all other bridge related options Refer to the bridging chapter of your Tools Guide for more information Find Source Address which opens a window that allow y...

Page 24: ...information and to the RMON utility a remote monitoring feature that is supported on a per port basis when at least one Ethernet or Fast Ethernet NIM is installed in the chassis These selections are a...

Page 25: ...t 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 d...

Page 26: ...tatus menu as described in the following sections Selecting a Port Status View To change the status view of your ports 1 Click on Port Status on the menu bar at the top of the Chassis View window a me...

Page 27: ...en disabled through management action Note that the Admin state re ects the state requested by management depending on the circumstances this may or may not match the current Operator status described...

Page 28: ...N orange BLK and red BRK for Admin and Operator green ON red OFF and blue N A not available For all other Port Status selections Load Errors I F Mapping I F Speed and I F Type color codes will continu...

Page 29: ...release Figure 2 4 Chassis Manager Window Viewing Hardware Types In addition to the graphical displays described above menu options available at the device and board levels provide speci c information...

Page 30: ...ndows Module Type From the Board menus on the SmartSwitch 7000 Chassis View window you can view a description of the Module types installed in your SmartSwitch chassis To view a Module type 1 Click on...

Page 31: ...ill appear Figure 2 7 I F Summary Window The I F Summary window provides a variety of descriptive information about each interface on your device as well as statistics which display each interface s p...

Page 32: ...In the right most menu field click on the down arrow and select the unit in which you wish to display the selected statistic Load Raw Counts or Rate 2 Once you have selected the base unit click on th...

Page 33: ...g transmitted A possible reason for discard would be to free up buffer space in the device Out Errors Outbound packets that could not be transmitted by the device interface because they contained erro...

Page 34: ...open the Interface Statistics window 1 In the I F Summary window click to select the interface for which you d like to view more detailed statistics 2 Click on Detail The appropriate I F Statistics wi...

Page 35: ...od packets are typically discarded to free up buffer space when the network becomes very busy if this is occurring routinely it usually means that network traf c is overwhelming the device To solve th...

Page 36: ...smitted Viewing FDDI Statistics The FDDI Statistics window Figure 2 9 provides basic information concerning the ring networks supported by the SmartSwitch 7000 s SMT entities including bandwidth utili...

Page 37: ...experienced on the ring associated with the SMT entity since peak FDDI statistics counters were last reset for the device You can reset the peak value at any time by clicking Util 100 MBits sec The c...

Page 38: ...dging interface through which a speci c MAC address is communicating with the SmartSwitch 7000 When you select Find Source Address from the Device menu the device s Filtering Database is searched for...

Page 39: ...ons available for FDDI Ethernet Fast Ethernet and COM ports allow you to con gure operating parameters speci c to each port type for FDDI and standard Ethernet ports you can set the Duplex Mode for Fa...

Page 40: ...e any Fast Ethernet NIMs installed in your SmartSwitch 7000 chassis the Port Con guration window available for those ports allows you to both view and set that port s available modes All 100Base TX Fa...

Page 41: ...speed of the port and whether it uses Full Duplex or Standard Mode bridging NOTE The Advertised Abilities functionality is not supported by the FE 100FX Fast Ethernet port module if you launch the Co...

Page 42: ...Full Duplex 100Base FX 100Base FX and 100Base FX Full Duplex Note that if Auto Negotiation is the selected mode the Current Operational Mode eld will indicate which mode was selected by the link partn...

Page 43: ...ink partner s capabilities could not be determined When the local node is not set to Auto Negotiation this eld will be grayed out even if the link partner is set to Auto Negotiation and is advertising...

Page 44: ...and modes supported by the attached device For 100Base FX ports options are 100Base FX 100 Mbps connection Standard Mode 100Base FX Full Duplex 100 Mbps connection Duplex Mode 2 If you have selected A...

Page 45: ...t 1 or Port 2 and release The COM Port Configuration window Figure 2 14 will appear Figure 2 14 COM Port Con guration You can use the COM Port Con guration window to set the following operating parame...

Page 46: ...gured the selected port as a SLIP or PPP connection you must select the appropriate baud rate 2400 4800 9600 or 19 200 Note that this eld will default to Auto Baud and become unselectable when the CO...

Page 47: ...elease 2 The Device Time change window Figure 2 15 will appear Figure 2 15 Edit Time Window 3 Enter the new time in a 24 hour hh mm ss format either by highlighting the field you wish to change and us...

Page 48: ...es will change accordingly To enable or disable bridging for an individual interface 1 Click on the appropriate port display box to display the port menu 2 Drag down to select Enable to enable bridgin...

Page 49: ...e Port menu 2 Drag down to Statistics and release The RMON Statistics Figure 3 1 page 3 2 or MIB II IF Statistics window Figure 3 3 page 3 7 as appropriate will appear TIP Since the SmartSwitch 7000 d...

Page 50: ...window along with the four boxes indicating the device s name location IP address and MAC address Figure 3 1 The Ethernet Statistics Window NOTES If the selected interface displays MIB II IF Statisti...

Page 51: ...e interval in hundredths of a percent this percentage re ects the network segment load compared to the theoretical maximum load 10 Mbits sec of an Ethernet network Packet Type Multicast Indicates the...

Page 52: ...t contained fewer than 64 bytes runt packets but were otherwise well formed Oversized Indicates the number of packets processed by the network segment that contained more than 1518 bytes giant packets...

Page 53: ...centage breakdown colors in the pie chart correspond to colors in the percentage display boxes Values listed to the right of the pie chart indicate peak delta values recorded since the statistics scre...

Page 54: ...lling cycle plus two more polling cycles the screen will display a fresh cumulative count of statistics Note that making this selection does not clear device counters you can still re select Total for...

Page 55: ...art in the middle of the window lets you graphically view statistics for Unicast Non Unicast Discarded and Error packets Figure 3 3 Interface Statistics Window Three informational elds appear in the u...

Page 56: ...would prevent transmission Good packets are typically discarded to free up buffer space when the network becomes very busy if this is occurring routinely it usually means that network traf c is overwh...

Page 57: ...Interface Statistics 3 9 Statistics Packets Transmitted Transmit only Displays the number of packets transmitted by this interface...

Page 58: ...Statistics 3 10 Interface Statistics...

Page 59: ...a set of conditions you want to know about and the event determines the means of letting you know those conditions have occurred Events are also an integral part of the lter and packet capture functi...

Page 60: ...sing and falling alarm thresholds for three selected MIB II objects ifInOctets ifInNUcast and ifInErrors Because these pre selected objects are not RMON speci c you can con gure alarms for all interfa...

Page 61: ...you are familiar with the RMON MIB and or with the original Alarm and Event functionality provided by SPECTRUM Element Manager now known as the Advanced Alarm functionality you will note that the Basi...

Page 62: ...octets of data received by the selected interface Note that this value has been converted for you from octets or bytes to kilobits or units of 125 bytes be sure to enter your thresholds accordingly Fo...

Page 63: ...alue counted at the end of the current interval and the value counted at the end of the previous interval be sure to set your thresholds accordingly Rising Action Indicates whether or not a rising ala...

Page 64: ...an alarm 1 At the top of the window click to select the variable to be used for your alarm Kilobits Total Errors or Broadcast Multicast The display in the list box will reflect the current status at e...

Page 65: ...re always relative or delta values the difference between the value counted at the end of the current interval and the value counted at the end of the previous interval be sure to set your thresholds...

Page 66: ...If you have made any errors in configuring alarm parameters using an invalid rising or falling threshold for example or neglecting to supply a polling interval either an error window with the appropr...

Page 67: ...and or falling threshold has been crossed the Basic Alarms application will create a log of alarm occurrences If a threshold has been crossed it will be proceeded in the interface list box display by...

Page 68: ...d Alarm Configuration The Basic Alarm Con guration window provides a quick and easy way to set up some basic alarms for all of the interfaces installed in your SmartSwitch 7000 chassis However if you...

Page 69: ...t uniquely identi es each alarm Index numbers are user de ned you can use any indexing scheme that works for you These numbers are permanently assigned to their associated alarms however index numbers...

Page 70: ...lue for this eld is zero no event will be triggered Status Indicates the status of the alarm valid invalid or underCreation An alarm that is invalid is not functional it may be referring to a MIB comp...

Page 71: ...of an event Note that the information provided in this screen is static once it is displayed for updated information click on Refresh Adding or modifying an event automatically updates the list Creati...

Page 72: ...cted all parameters are editable and can be configured as desired Figure 4 4 The RMON Create Edit Alarms Window 2 In the Owner text box enter some appropriate text designation for this alarm if desire...

Page 73: ...t name of the OID whose value you wish to track including its capitalization simply enter the name in the Alarm Variable field to verify that you have entered the name correctly click on to move the M...

Page 74: ...gly If you re not sure how a tabular object is instanced you can use the MIBTree utility described in theTools Guide to query the object all available instances for the object will be displayed Host a...

Page 75: ...ould be 6 since Host Table entries are indexed by MAC address a six byte value Finally you must specify the index itself in decimal format In the case of a MAC address that means you must convert the...

Page 76: ...gly 9 Click in the RisingThreshold field enter the high threshold value for this alarm 10 There are two ways to assign an event to your rising threshold click in the RisingEventIndex text box and ente...

Page 77: ...ll display the parameters of the event which is currently highlighted in the list If no events have yet been con gured a set of default parameters will be displayed All of these parameters are editabl...

Page 78: ...4 5 The RMON Create Edit Events Window 2 If you are creating a new event use the Index field to assign a unique currently unused index number to identify the event Clicking on the Index button will a...

Page 79: ...traps related to this event will be sent to any network management stations which have been added to the device s trap table and for which traps have been enabled regardless of whether or not those IP...

Page 80: ...that will be performed automatically when the event is triggered See Adding Actions to an Event below for more information 8 Click to set your changes Note that the window remains open so that you may...

Page 81: ...ure 4 6 following page will appear Figure 4 6 The RMON Create Edit Actions Window 2 The index number and description of the event with which the action or actions will be associated is displayed in th...

Page 82: ...is instanced you can use the MIBTree utility described in the Tools Guide to query it all available instances for the object will be displayed 6 In the Value field enter the value you wish to set for...

Page 83: ...ing to that event and assign a new valid event to those thresholds note too that deleting an event automatically deletes its associated actions as actions cannot exist in the absence of an association...

Page 84: ...he resources available on the device when the log is full the oldest entries will be replaced by new ones How Rising and Falling Thresholds Work Rising and falling thresholds are intended to be used i...

Page 85: ...current version of the Basic Alarms window only allows you to con gure a single pair of thresholds for each alarm variable on each interface be sure to keep this hysteresis function in mind when con...

Page 86: ...Alarm Configuration 4 28 How Rising and Falling Thresholds Work...

Page 87: ...ide information about the FDDI rings installed in the SmartSwitch 7000 are Con guration This window displays the current con guration and status of the ring associated with the selected SMT entity Con...

Page 88: ...window click on FDDI drag down to select the SMT entity of interest then right to reveal the FDDI menu Figure 5 1 Figure 5 1 The FDDI Menu 2 Drag to select the desired window Note that the title bar...

Page 89: ...ipating in ring recovery the ring is not operational Detect The claim beacon process of the FDDI ring protocol has exceeded one second There may be a problem on the ring any duplicate address conditio...

Page 90: ...the structure of the SMT frame Info eld The version number is included in the SMT frame so that a receiving station can determine whether or not its SMT version is able to communicate with the SMT ve...

Page 91: ...7F06 02 module supports two A B port pairs as each pair supports its own ring and therefore its own SMT entity this eld will display 2 Number of MACs The number of Media Access Control entities prese...

Page 92: ...B ports Connection Policy The SMT Connection Policy of an FDDI concentrator determines which types of connections are allowed among the four FDDI port types A B M Master and S Slave FDDI protocol for...

Page 93: ...ed connection between two nodes the most lenient policy will determine whether the connection as long as it is legal can be made For example if two FDDI nodes attempt an A A connection and this connec...

Page 94: ...alues corresponding to the desired connection policy according to the table below and then use your SNMP Set Request or Mib tool to set the value for the appropriate SMT index For example to set a con...

Page 95: ...information about the ring with which the SMT is currently associated Number of Nodes The number of stations inserted into the FDDI ring with which the SMT entity is currently associated Address Mode...

Page 96: ...n the ring in relation to the monitored SMT s MAC address The monitored SMT s MAC is always the rst entry 1 in the station list MAC Address Displays the 48 bit hardware address used for universal addr...

Page 97: ...total network load processed by the selected 7F06 02 interface during the last interval e g a transmit frames rate of 75 during a delta interval indicates that of all frames processed by the selected...

Page 98: ...ansferring the frame to the Logical Link Control LLC layer Lost Frames The number of frames detected by the MAC associated with the SMT during the chosen interval that have an unknown error so their v...

Page 99: ...etron s SecureFast Switching An ATM network uses two types of virtual channels or circuits Switched Virtual Circuits or SVCs and Permanent Virtual Circuits or PVCs SVCs are created and dismantled dyna...

Page 100: ...ndexed following an XXXXYY format where X the slot number in which the module containing the interface is installed times 10 000 and Y the physical index assigned to the port interface on the module F...

Page 101: ...gured to carry many different channels designated by VCIs between two points VCI Displays the Virtual Channel Identi er assigned to the connection allowable values are 0 1023 for each VPI Each assigne...

Page 102: ...d drag down to select the interface for which you wish to configure a connection All available ATM interfaces will be listed in this menu note that interfaces installed in a 7C0x chassis are indexed f...

Page 103: ...nent circuit to the ATM interface The circuit is automatically enabled and will remain in place until it is manually removed Deleting a Connection To delete an existing PVC 1 In the connections list b...

Page 104: ...ATM Configuration 6 6 Configuring Connections...

Page 105: ...ot Prom Revision 2 5 Bridge 2 10 mapping 2 10 2 11 status mode 2 10 Broadcast Multicast 4 4 Buffer Space 2 19 3 8 Bytes 3 3 C Cabletron Systems Global Call Center 1 8 Cancel Button 1 7 Channel Trunkin...

Page 106: ...Center 1 8 Grouping Of Virtual Connections 6 3 H Help button 1 7 Help Menu 2 8 How Rising And Falling RMON Thresholds Work 4 26 Hysteresis 4 10 4 26 I I F Summary interface performance statistics 2 16...

Page 107: ...reshold 4 18 RMON alarm description 4 26 RMT 5 1 S Sample Type 4 18 SecureFast Switching 1 2 Selecting Port Status Views 2 10 Set Button 1 7 Setting An RMON Alarm Variable 4 15 4 24 SMT Connection Pol...

Page 108: ...Index Index 4...