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IntraSpection
Personality Modules
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AsantéFAST 100 Hub
AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub
User’s Manual
Asanté Technologies, Inc.
821 Fox Lane
San Jose, CA 95131
1.800.662.9686
www.asante.com
August 1997
Part Number 06-00341-00 Rev. A
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100NMM PM book Page ii Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Copyright Notice Copyright ª 1997 by Asanté Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this manual, or any associated artwork, software, product design or design concept, may be copied, reproduced or stored, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means mechanical, electronic, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, including translation to another language or format, without the
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100NMM PM book Page iii Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Table of Contents Introduction...................................................................... 1-1 IntraSpection Personality Modules ............................................ 1-1 AsantéFAST 100 Hub Personality Module ........................... 1-1 AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub Personality Module ...... 1-2 Management Options .......................................................... 1-2 System Requirements .......
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100NMM PM book Page iv Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Viewing General Device Information ............................ 3-14 Viewing Module Information......................................... 3-15 Viewing SNMP Agent Information................................. 3-16 Enabling/Disabling Ports................................................ 3-17 Disabling a Group .......................................................... 3-18 Partitioning a Port.........................................
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100NMM PM book Page 1 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM 1 Introduction IntraSpection Personality Modules A Personality Module is a “plug-in” to the IntraSpection system that allows for expanded management of an SNMP device by specifically addressing the device’s proprietary information (the “Private MIB”). Management capabilities are accessed via the Personality Module’s Device Page. See Figure 1-1 or Figure 1-2. This manual provides information for two Personality Modules
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100NMM PM book Page 2 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Introduction AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub Personality Module The AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub Personality Module allows for expanded management of an AsantéFAST 100TX Managed Hub or a stack of 100 Hubs with an attached Managed Hub. See Figure 1-2. Device Information AsantéFAST 100 Hub Front Panel Image AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub Personality Module Information (menus) Figure 1-2 AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub Device Pag
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100NMM PM book Page 3 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM IntraSpection Personality Modules System Requirements Server o IntraSpection version 1.01 o PC with 80486 or faster microprocessor o 48MB RAM o 100MB free disk space o Windows NT™ 3.51 or higher or Windows NT 4.0 (rec- ommended) o Web server that supports Common Gateway Interface (CGI) 1.1 (such as Netscape FastTrack Server™, Microsoft IIS, NCSA HTTP, etc.) o Any database management system that supports OD
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100NMM PM book Page 4 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Introduction About This Manual This manual is divided into the following chapters: o Chapter 1, “Introduction,” describes IntraSpection Personality Modules. o Chapter 2, “Installation” explains how to install the AsantéFAST 100 and AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub Personality Modules. o Chapter 3, “Management,” explains how to access and use a Personality Module’s Device Page and how to perform some basic management fu
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100NMM PM book Page 1 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM 2 Installation Installing a Personality Module This chapter explains how to install the AsantéFAST 100 Hub and AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub Personality Modules. Both Personality Modules are contained within the same installation file. When you install the file, you install both Personality Modules. s Important: Before installing the Personality Modules, make sure that IntraSpection (websuite.exe) is NO
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100NMM PM book Page 2 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Installation 7 Click Yes to accept the agreement and continue with the installation. Click No to exit the installa- tion. The IntraSpection Personality Module Read Me win- dow appears. Review the information carefully. 8 Click Next to continue. The decompressed Personality Module files are installed onto your computer. The “Decompression of the Source is Now Complete” dialog box appears. 9 Click OK to continue with t
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100NMM PM book Page 3 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Installing a Personality Module The “IntraSpection Module Installation” window appears. s Important: This window should be pointing to the directory that contains the IntraSpection (websuite.exe) program. If it is not, click Browse and locate that directory. 14 Click OK. D Note: A “Select Database” window may appear. If it does, select vendor.mdb, then click OK. D Note: A “Updating IntraSpection System Files” window may appear,
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100NMM PM book Page 1 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM 3 Management This chapter explains how to access and use a Personality Module’s Device Page. The Device Page provides access to the Personality Mod- ule’s management options. Accessing the Device Page To access the Device Page for an AsantéFAST 100 Hub stack, you must first create a map of the network. 1 Make sure the Personality Module is installed and the IntraSpection Application Server is running. 2 Access IntraSpection from
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100NMM PM book Page 2 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Management o Make sure the Enterprise ID field has a value of all. o Type the lowest (beginning) IP address on your network in the Low IP Address field. o Type the highest (last) IP address on your network in the Hi IP Address field. o Select New in the Discovery Mode field to create a new map, or select Append to attach this map to the map that is stored in your system’s buffer (if any). 5 Click Apply. IntraSpection builds a map of y
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100NMM PM book Page 3 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Device Page Components Device Page Components A Personality Module’s Device Page consists of several components, including device information, a front panel image, and management menu items. See Figure 3-2. Device Information (device description and IP address) Front Panel Image (entire hub stack collectively referred to as a single device; each module referred to as a group) Personality Module Information (management menu items)
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100NMM PM book Page 4 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Management Front Panel Image Components The front panel image contains the following components (as illustrated in Figure 3-4): o Device — the entire stack of hubs and the attached management module. o Group — each module within the device. o Port — each port on each group. o Status LEDs — real-time LEDs that represent the LEDs on the modules; they display port activity. Ports Group 12 Group 13 Device Group 14 Group 15* *The bottom
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100NMM PM book Page 5 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Selecting the Device for Management Selecting the Device for Management The AsantéFAST 100 Hub and AsantéFAST 100 TX Managed Hub can be managed at different levels; that is, at the device, group, or port level. For example, if a group is selected and you select the Reset menu, that group (module) will be reset. If the device is selected and you select Reset, the device (entire hub stack) will be reset. Selecting an Item Target Item
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100NMM PM book Page 6 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Management Menu Components The menus on the AsantéFAST 100 Hub and AsantéFAST 100 TX Man- aged Hub Device Pages provide access to the different management options supported by each Personality Module. Tables Some menus contain tables with information that is configurable directly on-screen from your Web browser while others contain informa- tion that is read-only. The following tables describe how to recognize configurable and read-o
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100NMM PM book Page 7 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Performing Basic Management Functions Performing Basic Management Functions This section explains how to perform some basic management func- tions with both Personality Modules. This section covers the following tasks: Configuration Tasks Management Task Page Setting community strings page 3-8 Configuring network access parameters page 3-10 Configuring device identification information page 3-11 Management Tasks Management Task Page Upda
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100NMM PM book Page 8 Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:40 PM Management Setting Community Strings Community strings define access rights for reading and writing SNMP data objects for a device. The community strings (read community and write community) for an AsantéFAST 100 Hub stack’s management module are manually set in the management module via the module’s console port. In order to access the management module with IntraSpection, the community strings must be set in IntraSpection to m
