How to Manage

This is a guide to the procedures and tasks that you can accomplish using the GS2000 Web-based management application. The application divides management tasks into four main categories: Systems, Interfaces, Bridges, and IP Routing. The organization of this information follows that of the application.

Systems

The following topics provide information related to managing systems.

Configuring System Identification Values

The System General window allows you to view general information about the line card and assign a host name, location and contact person for the line card.

Resetting Configuration Parameters

The Reset window allows you to clear or reset all of the line card's nonvolatile (NVRAM) configuration parameters or to clear its error and statistic counters.

Displaying Error Logs

The Error Log window provides access to functionality to monitor messages, manage error log entries, and troubleshoot problems related to line card crashes (fatal errors).

Displaying and Managing Crash Log Entries

The Crash Log Information Center window allows you to monitor crash log entries, delete a crash log entries, and choose to add a message to the crash log.

Adding Messages to the Crash Log

The Add Message for Crash Log window provides a place for you to enter a message into the crash log.

Displaying and Clearing Diagnostic Log Entries

The Diagnostic Information Center window allows you to monitor and clear diagnostic log entries.

Displaying Memory Information

The Memory window allows you to view information about the line card's CPU memory, number of buffers, and packet size.

Configuring IP Host Services

The IP Host Configuration window allows you to configure an IP address, enable router discovery and RIP listening, assign an IP end node to a VSD, or assign a default gateway.

Configuring the IP Host Default Gateway

The IP Host Default Gateway Add Modify window allows you to add to or modify an IP host default gateway for your IP Host Services configuration.

Upgrading Device Firmware

The Upgrade Device window allows you to load a new, or reinstall the current, flash image to the line card.

Saving and Restoring Configuration Data

The Save/Restore Configuration window allows you to save the current configuration in a file or restore a previously saved configuration.

Configuring SNMP Communities

The SNMP Community window allows you to delete an existing SNMP community or the IP address associated with the community, and provides access to the functionality to add or modify SNMP communities or their IP addresses.

Configuring SNMP Community Options

The SNMP Community Add/Modify window allows you to add  an SNMP community or modify an SNMP community's name, access, view, or enable traps.

Configuring Community IP Addresses

The Community IP Address Add/Modify window allows you to add or modify an IP address for a community.

Interfaces

The following topics provide information related to managing interfaces.

Getting Started

The Quick Configuration Guide window provides a means for quickly configuring components without having to refer to the application tree. 

Displaying and Modifying Interface Configuration Information

The Interface Configuration window allows you to display and/or modify the configuration of one or more interfaces.

Configuring an ATM LAN Emulation Client (LEC) and Displaying Status Information

The ATM LEC Status and Configuration window provides access to ATM interface configuration information and allows you to configure an ATM LAN Emulation Client (LEC). 

Additionally, information on performing the following tasks is provided in the help information associated with this window:

  • Setting the ATM transmission

  • Setting transmission timing

  • Enabling/disabling payload scrambling

Configuring a Bridge Tunnel and Displaying Status Information

The ATM Bridge Tunnel Status and Configuration window provides access to ATM interface configuration information and allows you to configure an ATM logical interface as an Ethernet or FDDI bridge tunnel.

Displaying a Summary of Interface Errors

The Interface Errors window allows you view a summary of interface errors that may have occurred on one or more interfaces.

Displaying a Summary of Packet Statistics

The Interface Statistics window displays packet statistics for all the interfaces on the GS2000 line card.

Displaying the Status of the SONET/SDH Interface

The SONET/SDH window displays the status of the SONET/SDH interface.  

Configuring an FDDI Interface and Displaying Status Information

The FDDI Status and Configuration window provides access to FDDI configuration information and allows you to configure an FDDI interface.

 

Bridges

The following topics provide information related to managing bridges.

Configuring the Transparent Bridge

The Bridging General window allows you to configure the Spanning Tree Protocol, including setting values for the bridge priority, rate limiting rate, and forward delay rate.  You can also enable IPX translation trough the Bridging General window.

Displaying Bridge Port Settings

The Bridge Interface Configuration window allows you to display information for each interface including the port number, associated interface type, MAC address and so forth.  This window also provides access to the Bridge Interface - Add/Modify window that allows you to modify the settings for a particular port.

Modifying the Transparent Bridge Configuration

The Bridge Interface Add/Modify window allows you to change bridge interface parameters including the port number, associated interface, path cost and priority values, and to enable or disable the Spanning Tree Protocol, manual mode, and the port itself.

Displaying VSDs

The Bridging by VSD window allows you to display the currently configured VLAN Secure Domains (VSD), and to click on the Details button to get more information about a VSD.

Displaying Bridging Information for a VSD

The Bridge Information by VSD window allows you to view bridging information for a VLAN Secure Domain, including: VSD Bridge Parameters such as the VSD ID, root, name, root cost, as well as the per port parameters such as port number, address, state, destination root, and so forth.

Displaying and Deleting Address Filters

The Address Filter window allows you to display the following information for configured address filters: the MAC address, allowed ports, address type, duplicate address, and multicast rate limit. You can also delete address filters from this window.

Configuring Permanent Address Filters

The Address Filter Add/Modify window allows you to change settings address filters including the MAC address, address type, and allowed ports, and to enable multicast rate limiting.

Displaying and Deleting Protocol Filters

The Protocol Filters window allows you to display information about user-defined and default protocol filters, including: the protocol type, allowed ports, the state of multicast rate limiting, and the list of ports on which frames are to be received or forwarded. You can also delete protocol filters from this window.

Configuring Protocol Filters

The Protocol Filters Add/Modify window allows you to display information about currently configured protocol filters, and to change settings for the protocol type, the ports on which a protocol is allowed, and to enable or disable protocol rate limiting.

Displaying Hex Values for Ethernet, SNAP, and SAP Protocols

The Hex Values for Ethernet, SNAP, and SAP Protocols window displays allows you to display a table of common Ethernet, SNAP, and DSAP protocols. You use this information when specifying protocol filters.

Selecting Types of Addresses to Display

The Bridging Database window allows you to display information information about permanent, registered, reserved, and static addresses in the bridging database. 

Displaying the Bridging Database

The Bridging Database windows allow you to display information about MAC addresses in the bridging (or forwarding) database.

Displaying and Deleting VSDs

The VSD Configuration window allows you to display and delete configured VSDs, and to access a window that allows you to add or modify VSDs.

Configuring VSDs

The VSD Add/Modify window allows you to create or modify a VSD by specifying the VSD number and name and the ports you want to assign to the VSD. If routing is enabled, this window displays the port ranges and the available routing interfaces.

IP Routing

The following topics provide information related to managing IP routing.

Configuring Enhanced Proxy ARP

The Enhanced Proxy ARP window allows you to enable enhanced proxy ARP, add or delete an enhanced proxy ARP subnet or modify an interface.

Configuring General IP Parameters

The General IP Parameters window allows you to add an internal IP address, router ID, routing table size and reassembly buffer size.

Configuring Hosts for Enhanced Proxy ARP

This task allows you to configure hosts to ARP on Windows NT, Windows 95, DIGITAL UNIX and LINUX, MIPS ULTRIX, Windows 3.1 PATHWORKS and Windows NT 4.0 DHCP servers.

Configuring IP Access Controls

The IP Access Controls window allows you to add, move or enable IP access control records.

Configuring IP Interface Addresses

The IP Interface Addresses window allows you to add, modify or delete IP interface addresses to any of the router's VLAN interfaces.

Configuring Filtered Routes

The Filtered Routes window allows you to add filters to networks and subnets.

Configuring Static Routes

The Static Routes window allows you to add, modify or delete static network and subnet routes.

Disabling Routing

The Disabling Routing window allows you to disable routing, default gateway address and RIP listening.

Enabling Routing

The Enabling Routing window allows you to enable routing, default gateway address and RIP listening.

Modifying Enhanced Proxy ARP Interfaces

The Modifying Enhanced Proxy ARP Interfaces window allows you to enable or disable Enhanced Proxy ARP and Proxy On Behalf for any interface.

Modifying Enhanced Proxy ARP Subnets

The Modifying Enhanced Proxy ARP Subnets window allows you to modify an enhanced proxy ARP subnet by entering a new interface number, subnet address or subnet mask.

Modifying IP Access Controls

The Modifying IP Access Controls window allows you to modify IP access control records, IP protocols and port numbers.

Modifying IP Interface Addresses

The Modifying IP Interface Addresses window allows you to modify IP interface addresses and subnet masks to any of the router's VLAN interfaces.

Modifying Filtered Routes

The Modifying Filtered Routes window allows you to modify filters to networks and subnets.

Modifying Static Routes

The Modifying Static Routes window allows you to modify static network and subnet routes.

Monitoring IP Counters

The Monitoring IP counters window allows you to display the statistics related to the IP forwarding process, including a count of routing errors, along with the number of packets that were dropped due to congestion.