Cabletron Systems 9H42X-XX - Manual

Contents vi Creating and Editing a Basic Alarm .................................................................... 3-6Disabling a Basic Alarm ........................................................................................ 3-9Viewing the Basic Alarm Log ........................................

vii Contents Filtering Database ....................................................................................................... 5-19 Configuring the Filtering Database ................................................................... 5-22 Altering the Ageing Time .............................

1-1 Chapter 1 Introduction How to use this guide; related guides; software conventions; getting help; 9H42x-xx firmware versions Welcome to the Cabletron Systems MMAC-Plus Remote Management for the 9H42x-xx Series Fast Ethernet SmartSwitch™ Modules User ’s Guide. We have designed this guide to serve...

Using the 9H42x-xx User’s Guide 1-3 Introduction Using the 9H42x-xx User’s Guide Remote management for the 9H42x-xx family of modules is available from two main resources: the MMAC-Plus Chassis View application, which displays and provides management for an MMAC-Plus chassis (and its installed modul...

Introduction 1-4 Related Manuals Related Manuals The MMAC-Plus Remote Management for the 9H42x-xx Series Fast Ethernet SmartSwitch Modules User ’s Guide is only part of a complete document set designed to provide comprehensive information about the features available to you through SPECTRUM Element ...

Software Conventions 1-5 Introduction Figure 1-1. Sample Window Showing Informational Text Boxes Device Name Displays the user-defined name of the device. The device name can be changed via the System Group window; see the Generic SNMP Management Module Guide for details. IP Address Displays the dev...

Introduction 1-6 Getting Help Using Buttons The button that appears at the bottom of most windows allows you to exit a window and terminate any unsaved changes you have made. You may also have to use this button to close a window after you have made any necessary changes and set them by clicking on ...

9H42x-xx Firmware 1-7 Introduction Getting Help from Cabletron Systems’ Global Call Center If you need support related to SPECTRUM Element Manager, or if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions related to this manual or any of our products, please feel free to contact Cabletron Systems’ Glo...

2-1 Chapter 2 The 9H42x-xx Module View Accessing the Module View; information displayed in the Module View window; the Chassis Manager window; module management functions; port configuration The Module View window is the main screen that immediately informs you of the status of the front panel inter...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-2 Viewing Module Information from the MMAC-Plus Chassis View: 1. Click the left mouse button on the index number for the slot which contains the 9H42x-xx module you wish to manage. 2. On the resulting menu, click to select Device View. The 9H42x-xx Module View, illustrated...

Viewing Module Information 2-3 The 9H42x-xx Module View By clicking in designated areas of the module’s graphical display (as detailed later in this chapter), or by using the menu bar at the top of the Module View window, you can access all of the menus that lead to more detailed device- and port- l...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-4 Viewing Module Information MAC The physical layer address assigned to the interface through which SPECTRUM Element Manager is communicating with the 9H42x-xx Module. Unless your management station is communicating through the front panel of the module, this will reflect ...

Viewing Module Information 2-5 The 9H42x-xx Module View Figure 2-2. 9H42x-xx Module View Menu Structure The Device Menu From the Device Menu at the Module View window menu bar, you can access the following selections: • Device Type... , which displays a window containing a description of the device ...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-6 Viewing Module Information • Power Supply , Chassis Power Detail, and Environment View provide access to windows which provide information about the MMAC-Plus chassis the selected module is installed in. A detailed description of these windows can be found in the Using M...

Viewing Module Information 2-7 The 9H42x-xx Module View Refer to your SPECTRUM Element Manager Tools Guide for information on the MIB Tools utility, and to the SPECTRUM Element Manager Remote Monitoring (RMON) User ’s Guide for more information on the RMON tool. The Help Menu The Help Menu has three...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-8 Viewing Module Information The Port Menu The menu for the INB and Ethernet interfaces offers the following selections: • Performance Graph... , which brings up a bridging statistics window specific to the selected interface. • Source Addressing.... , which brings up a wi...

Viewing Module Information 2-9 The 9H42x-xx Module View 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 Module View window; a menu will appear. 2. Drag down (and to the right, if necessary) to select the status informati...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-10 Viewing Module Information If you have selected the Admin status mode, a port is considered: • ON if the port is enabled by management. • OFF if it has been disabled through management action. Note that the Admin state reflects the state requested by management; dependi...

Viewing Module Information 2-11 The 9H42x-xx Module View I/F Speed If you choose the I/F Speed mode, the interface boxes will display the bandwidth of each individual interface on the 9H42x-xx module: 10M (megabits) for standard Ethernet; 100M for Fast Ethernet; and 2500M for the INB backplane inter...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-12 Viewing Module Information Figure 2-3. Chassis Manager Window To view the Chassis Manager window: 1. Click on Help on the menu bar at the top of the Module View window. 2. Click again to select MIBs Supported, and release. Viewing the Device Type In addition to the grap...

Viewing Module Information 2-13 The 9H42x-xx Module View Viewing I/F Summary Information The I/F Summary menu option available from the Device menu lets you view statistics (displayed both graphically and numerically) for the traffic processed by each network interface on your device. The window als...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-14 Viewing Module Information Host interfaces and the backplane INB interface), and ethernet-csmacd (for both standard and Fast Ethernet front panel interfaces, and the backplane SMB 10 management interface). Description A text description of the interface: SMB 1 and SMB 1...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-16 Viewing Module Information Viewing Interface Detail The Interface Statistics window ( Figure 2-6 ) provides detailed MIB-II interface statistical information — including counts for both transmit and receive packets, and error and buffering information — for each individ...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-18 Viewing Module Information Packets Transmitted (Transmit only) Displays the number of packets transmitted by this interface. Making Sense of Detail Statistics The statistics available in this window can give you an idea of how an interface is performing; by using the st...

Managing the Module 2-19 The 9H42x-xx Module View Figure 2-7. Find Source Address Window 3. In the text field, enter a valid MAC address in hexadecimal format, then click . If you enter an invalid address — that is, one not in hexadecimal xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx- format — an error window will appear indic...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-20 Managing the Module Configuring Standard Ethernet Ports The Port Configuration window available for standard Ethernet ports allows you to set an interface to either Standard or Full Duplex Mode. Full Duplex mode effectively doubles the available wire speed by allowing t...

Managing the Module 2-21 The 9H42x-xx Module View Be sure to click on to set your changes; note that the interface’s current mode can be determined by the field selected in the window. Configuring Fast Ethernet Ports For any Fast Ethernet interface, the Port Configuration window allows you to both v...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-22 Managing the Module From this window you can manually set the operational mode of the port, or — for 100Base-TX interfaces — set the port to auto negotiation so that the appropriate operational mode can be determined automatically. The mode you set will determine the sp...

Managing the Module 2-23 The 9H42x-xx Module View Note that if Auto Negotiation is the selected mode, the Current Operational Mode field will indicate which mode was selected by the link partners. See Setting the Desired Operational Mode, page 2-24 , for more information. Advertised Abilities For 10...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-24 Managing the Module • Link Partner does not support auto negotiation — auto negotiation is either not supported by or is not currently selected on the remote port. • Unknown — the link partner ’s capabilities could not be determined. When the local node is not set to Au...

Managing the Module 2-25 The 9H42x-xx Module View 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 Auto Negotiation (for 100Base-TX ports only), use the Advertised Abilities field to s...

The 9H42x-xx Module View 2-26 Managing the Module 2. Enter the new time in a 24-hour hh:mm:ss format, either by highlighting the field you wish to change and using the up and down arrow buttons, or by simply entering the new value in the appropriate field. 3. Click on to save the changes, or on to e...

Managing the Module 2-27 The 9H42x-xx Module View 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 bridging at the interface, or Disable to disable bridging. Bridging will now be ...

3-1 Chapter 3 Alarm Configuration Accessing the Basic and Advanced Alarms windows; creating a basic alarm; creating an advanced alarm; creating events; assigning actions to events; viewing the event log Through the RMON Alarm and Event functionality supported by your 9H42x-xx, you can configure alar...

Alarm Configuration 3-2 Basic Alarm Configuration Using the Advanced Alarms feature, you can define custom alarms for almost any MIB-II or RMON object, as long as it is present in the device firmware and its value is defined as an integer (including counters, timeticks, and gauges). All aspects of t...

Basic Alarm Configuration 3-3 Alarm Configuration Accessing the Basic Alarm Configuration Window To access the RMON Basic Alarm Configuration window: 1. From the Module View, click on the appropriate port interface to display the Port menu. 2. Drag down to Alarm Configuration, and release. The RMON ...

Alarm Configuration 3-4 Basic Alarm Configuration Viewing Alarm Status The Basic Alarm Configuration window contains all the fields you need to configure one or more of the three basic alarms available for each interface installed in your RMON device: Kilobits — Total Errors — Broadcasts/Multicasts ...

Alarm Configuration 3-6 Basic Alarm Configuration The remainder of the window fields provide the means for configuring alarms for each available interface. Note that the information provided in this screen is static once it is displayed; for updated information, click on . Adding or modifying an ala...

Basic Alarm Configuration 3-9 Alarm Configuration Disabling a Basic Alarm Using the button at the bottom of the window actually performs two functions: it both disables the alarm and deletes the alarm entry (and its associated event and action entries) from device memory to help conserve device reso...

Advanced Alarm Configuration 3-11 Alarm Configuration Advanced Alarm Configuration The Basic Alarm Configuration window provides a quick and easy way to set up some basic alarms for all of the interfaces installed in your 9H42x-xx. However, if you prefer more control over the parameters of the alarm...

Alarm Configuration 3-14 Advanced Alarm Configuration Creating and Editing an Advanced Alarm The Create/Edit Alarms window ( Figure 3-4 ) allows you to both create new alarms and edit existing ones. When you click on in the Alarms Watch list, the Create/Edit Alarms window will display the parameters...

Alarm Configuration 3-20 Advanced Alarm Configuration 13. Click to set your changes. If you have made any errors in configuring alarm parameters (using an invalid value in any field, leaving a field blank, or selecting an alarm variable which is not resident on the device), an error window with the ...

Alarm Configuration 3-22 Advanced Alarm Configuration 3. Click in the Description text box to enter any text description you want to identify the event. This description will appear in the Events Watch window and help you distinguish among the events you have configured. 4. Any value you enter in th...

Advanced Alarm Configuration 3-23 Alarm Configuration c. Select both Log and Trap to both log the event occurrence and generate the traps. If you select neither option, the event’s occurrences will neither be logged nor generate traps; unless the event includes an action or a series of actions, this...

Alarm Configuration 3-26 Advanced Alarm Configuration Deleting an Alarm, Event, or Action To delete an alarm, event, or action: 1. In the appropriate window, highlight the alarm, event, or action you wish to remove. 2. Click on to remove. A window will appear asking you to confirm your selection; cl...

How Rising and Falling Thresholds Work 3-27 Alarm Configuration The top portion of the window contains the device information boxes, as well as the event index number and the event description; the log itself includes the following fields: Index This index number is not the event’s index, but a sepa...

Alarm Configuration 3-28 How Rising and Falling Thresholds Work Figure 3-8. Sample Rising and Falling Threshold Pairs TIP The current version of the Basic Alarms window only allows you to configure a single pair of thresholds for each alarm variable on each interface; be sure to keep this hysteresis...

4-1 Chapter 4 Statistics Accessing MIB-II interface or RMON statistics from the Module View; available statistics windows Each port menu in the 9H42x-xx Module View provides two statistics selections: Statistics and I/F Statistics. Selecting the Statistics option will launch the highest level of sta...

Statistics 4-2 RMON Statistics RMON Statistics The RMON Ethernet Statistics window ( Figure 4-1 ) provides a detailed statistical breakdown of traffic on the monitored Ethernet network — including byte, packet, and dropped packet counts; breakdowns of the packet’s address type; breakdowns of error p...

RMON Statistics 4-3 Statistics Ethernet statistics are: Bytes Displays the total number of bytes contained in packets processed on the network segment. This number includes bytes contained in error packets. Packets Displays the total number of packets processed on the network segment. Again, this nu...

RMON Statistics 4-5 Statistics The percentages displayed to the right of the numerical values for these fields indicate what percentage of all packets transmitted on the network segment were of the noted size. Unless the network segment has experienced a significant number of runts and/or giants (wh...

Statistics 4-6 Interface Statistics To temporarily freeze the statistics display, select the Freeze Stats option; in this mode, statistics will continue to be collected, but the display will not update. To resume normal updates, click again to de-select the freeze option. Printing Statistics The but...

Statistics 4-8 Interface Statistics The lower portion of the window provides the following transmit and receive statistics; note that the first four statistics are also graphically displayed in the pie charts. Unicast Displays the number of packets transmitted to or received from this interface that...

5-1 Chapter 5 Bridging Bridge management overview; the Bridge Status window; bridge Performance Graphs; changing bridge Spanning Tree parameters; configuring the Filtering Database; setting duplex modes; using the port Source Addressing window Bridging Basics When configured to operate as a traditio...

Bridging 5-2 An Overview of Bridge Management return a response to the source node that contains the route information field indicating which bridge paths the explorer packets took. In future communication between the two nodes, the original source node will append the best route to the destination ...

The Bridge Status Window 5-3 Bridging • With the Filtering Database window, you can see the contents of the Static and Learned databases — the two address databases which construct the IEEE 802.1d Source Address Table. The switch uses the contents of these databases to make its packet filtering and ...

Bridging 5-4 The Bridge Status Window Figure 5-1. The Bridge Status Window The Bridge Status window provides the following information for each individual bridging interface; the and buttons allow you to scroll the display to show all available bridge port interfaces. Up Time At the top of the Bridg...

The Bridge Status Window 5-5 Bridging • Learning (magenta) — the Forwarding database is being created or the Spanning Tree Algorithm is being executed due to a network topology change; the port is monitoring network traffic, learning network addresses. • Blocking (orange) — Spanning Tree Algorithm h...

Bridging 5-6 Enabling and Disabling Bridging Enabling and Disabling Bridging When you disable a bridge port, you disconnect that port’s network from the bridge entirely. The port does not forward any packets, nor does it participate in Spanning Tree operations. Nodes connected to the network can sti...

Bridge Statistics 5-7 Bridging from the Module View window: 1. Click on the Bridge label just above the port status displays; the Bridge menu will appear. 2. Drag down to Enable Bridge to enable bridging across all interfaces, or to Disable Bridge to disable bridging across all interfaces. Bridge St...

Bridge Statistics 5-9 Bridging Filtered (Magenta) Filtered The total number of frames filtered by the bridge, at the device or port level. Nothing The Filtered scale is not currently measuring the number of packets filtered by the bridge. Total Errors (Red) Total Errors The total number of errors ex...

Bridging 5-10 Using Source Addressing Using Source Addressing The Source Addressing feature allows you to display a list of the MAC addresses communicating through each bridge port interface available on the selected 9H42x-xx module. To access the Source Addressing windows: 1. From the Bridge Status...

Bridge Spanning Tree 5-11 Bridging 2. Type in the new Ageing Time, in seconds, then click on . The allowable range is 10 to 1,000,000 seconds. Bridge Spanning Tree The Bridge Spanning Tree window allows you to display and modify the 9H42x-xx module’s bridge port information and protocol parameters r...

Bridging 5-12 Bridge Spanning Tree To access the Bridge Spanning Tree window: 1. From the Bridge Status window, click on to display the Bridge Status menu. or From the Module View window, click on the Bridge label just above the port status display; the Bridge menu will appear. 2. Click on Spanning ...

Bridge Spanning Tree 5-13 Bridging Bridge-level Parameters The Bridge Spanning Tree window provides the following bridge-level information: Bridge Priority This field displays the “priority” component of the 9H42x-xx module’s unique bridge identifier. The Spanning Tree Algorithm assigns each bridge ...

Bridging 5-14 Bridge Spanning Tree Protocol Displays the Spanning Tree Algorithm Protocol type the 9H42x-xx module is currently using. The choices are: • 802.1 • DEC (DEC Lanbridge 100) • None The following four fields display values used for various Spanning Tree timers in the course of normal oper...

Bridge Spanning Tree 5-15 Bridging expires, the port transmits its Configuration BPDU to send configuration information to the Root. The Hold Time is a fixed value, as specified by the IEEE 802.1d specification. Port-specific Parameters The following fields are applicable to each bridge port interfa...

Bridging 5-16 Bridge Spanning Tree Designated Port Displays the network address portion of the Port ID (which includes a manageable Priority component) of the port believed to be the Designated Port for the LAN associated with this port. The Designated Port ID, along with the Designated Bridge and P...

Bridge Spanning Tree 5-17 Bridging Changing the Spanning Tree Algorithm Protocol Type To change the type of protocol used in Spanning Tree: 1. Click the mouse on the appropriate option button: IEEE 802.1, DEC, or None. 2. Click on . The selected Spanning Tree Algorithm protocol type will be applied ...

Bridging 5-18 Bridge Spanning Tree Changing Forwarding Delay Time If the 9H42x-xx module is the Root Bridge or attempting to become the Root, and you want to change the time period the bridge will spend in the Listening state (e.g. either listening to BPDU activity on the network while moving from t...

Filtering Database 5-19 Bridging Filtering Database When the 9H42x-xx switch is using Transparent Bridging, the Filtering Database, which makes up the IEEE 802.1d Source Address Table, is used to determine which frames will be forwarded or filtered between the 9H42x-xx module’s bridging interfaces. ...

Bridging 5-22 Filtering Database Type Indicates the type of an entry in the database. The possible types are Static, Dynamic, Learned, Self, or Permanent. You can alter the entry type, as described in the next section. Source Port Indicates the index number of the port on which the address entry was...

Filtering Database 5-23 Bridging clicking , a text box will appear stating “Changes have been made. Cancel them?”. Click on Yes to exit the window without changing the Filtering Database, or No to return to the window. Altering the Ageing Time To alter the Ageing Time for Dynamic and Learned entries...

Bridging 5-24 Filtering Database Changing the Port Filtering Action You can change the Port Filtering action at each bridge port from its current action to the opposing action. 1. Maneuver the scroll bar until the desired port is in the Port Filtering panel. 2. Click on the port to alter its filteri...

Configuring Duplex Modes 5-25 Bridging To delete an address: 1. Click to highlight the address entry in the Address Entry panel that you wish to delete from the filtering database. 2. Click on . Clearing All Permanent, Static, or Dynamic Entries To erase all Permanent, Static, or Dynamic entries fro...

Index-1 Index Numerics 9H42x-xx devices described 1-1 A absolute value 3-2, 3-12, 3-19accessing the RMON Alarm/Event list 3-11accessing the RMON Statistics window 4-1Accum 4-5Actions MIB 3-23Admin 2-9Admin/Link 2-9, 2-10Advanced Alarms 3-2Ageing Time (bridging) 5-19, 5-21Alarm Instance 3-16alarm log...