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Portable Management Application
for the
TRMMIM
User’s Guide
The Complete Networking Solution
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Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM The TRMMIM................................................................................................................ 1-1 Using the TRMMIM User’s Guide ............................................................................. 1-1 What’s NOT in the TRMMIM Guide... ............................................................... 1-2 Conventions......................................................................................
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Contents Managing the Hub at the Port Level ........................................................................2-33 Converting a Station Port to a Ring-out Port...................................................2-33 Enabling and Disabling Station and Ring Ports ..............................................2-33 Removing a Station from the Ring ....................................................................2-34 Chapter 3 Ring Map Launching the Ring Map..........................
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Contents Refreshing the Station List.................................................................................... 5-4 Monitoring Ring and Station Statistics ...................................................................... 5-4 Creating a Pie Chart .............................................................................................. 5-5 Creating a Graph or Meter ................................................................................... 5-6 Ring and Station Var
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Chapter 1 Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM The TRMMIM; how to use the TRMMIM User’s Guide; manual conventions; contacting Cabletron Technical Support; TRMMIM firmware versions supported by SPMA The TRMMIM ™ The TRMMIM is an intelligent Token Ring management module designed to be ® used in a mid-chassis slot of a Cabletron Systems Multi-Media Access Center ™ ® (MMAC ) chassis, with a TRMM or an Ethernet intelligent repeater that ™ supports Cabletron’s backplane pro
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Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM • Chapter 1, Introduction, describes the TRMMIM User’s Guide and the conventions used in this and other SPMA manuals, explains where to find information about the TRMMIM, and tells you how to contact Cabletron Systems Technical Support. • Chapter 2, Using the TRMMIM Hub View, describes the visual display of the Hub and explains how to use the mouse within the Hub View. Also described are some basic functions available only from wit
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Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM • TFTP Download • Trap Table The Charts, Graphs, and Meters application is accessible from the Hub View and the command line; the Global Find MAC Address Tool is accessible from the platform console window Tools menu; the MIBTree application is accessible from the platform console window Tools menu, the Stand-alone Launcher window, and the command line; the Telnet application is available from the command line; the rest of the tool application
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Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM Some windows within SPMA applications can be re-sized; those windows will display the standard window resizing handles employed by your windowing system. Re-sizing a window doesn’t re-size the information in the window; it just changes the amount of information that can be displayed (see Figure 1-1). When you shrink a window, scroll bars will appear as necessary so that you can scroll to view all the information that is available. Use the scroll bars
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Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM Figure 1-2. The History Window Using the Mouse The UNIX mouse has three buttons. Procedures within the SPMA document set refer to these buttons as follows: Button 1 Button 2 Button 3 Figure 1-3. Mouse Buttons If you’re using a two-button mouse, don’t worry. SPMA doesn’t make use of mouse button 2. Just click the left button for button 1 and the right mouse button when instructed to use mouse button 3. Conventions 1-5
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Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM Whenever possible, we will instruct you on which mouse button to employ; however, menu buttons within SPMA applications will operate according to the convention employed by the active windowing system. By convention, menu buttons under the Motif windowing environment are activated by clicking the left mouse button (referred to as mouse button 1 in SPMA documentation), and there is no response to clicking the right button (mouse button 3). Unde
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Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM For additional information about Cabletron Systems products, visit our World Wide Web site: http://www.cabletron.com/ TRMMIM Firmware SPMA for the TRMMIM has been tested against firmware versions 3.00.10 and 3.01.01; if you have an earlier version of firmware and experience problems running SPMA contact Cabletron Systems Technical Support for upgrade information. TRMMIM Firmware 1-7
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Introduction to SPMA for the TRMMIM 1-8 TRMMIM Firmware
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Chapter 2 Using the TRMMIM Hub View Navigating through the Hub View, monitoring hub activity; managing the hub at the device, module, and port levels The heart of the SPECTRUM Portable Management Application (SPMA) for the TRMMIM is the Hub View, a graphical interface that gives you access to many of the functions that provide control over the TRMMIM-managed hub. Note that the Hub View application only allows you to control boards and ports in the NOTE domain of a single management module. I
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Using the TRMMIM Hub View The community name you use to start the module must have at least Read access; for full management functionality, you should use a community name that provides Read/Write or Superuser access. For more information on community names, consult the appropriate Installing and Using SPECTRUM for... guide, and/or the Community Names chapter in the SPMA Tools Guide. The spmarun script invoked first in the above command temporarily sets the environment NOTES variables SPMA n
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Using the TRMMIM Hub View Figure 2-1. TRMMIM Hub View Hub View Front Panel In addition to the graphical display of the Media Interface Modules (MIMs), the Hub View gives you device-level summary information. The following Front Panel information appears to the right of the module display in the Hub View: Contact Status is a color code that shows the status of the connection between SPMA and the device: • Green indicates a valid connection. • Blue means that SPMA is trying to reach the device
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Using the TRMMIM Hub View Uptime The time that the device has been running without interruption. The counter resets to 0 days 00:00:00 (days HH:MM:SS) when one of the following occurs: • Power to the MMAC chassis is cycled. • The device is reset manually. Time and Date The date and time are taken from the device’s internal clock. Device Name A text field that you can use to help identify the device. Device Location A text field that you can use to help identify the device. If the TRMMIM you a
