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1. Field Description HCOutUcastPkts The number of packets that higher level protocols requested be transmitted that were not addressed to a multicast address at this MLT This total number includes those packets discarded or unsent HCInMulticastPkt The number of packets delivered to this MLT that were addressed to a multicast address at this sublayer For a MAC layer protocol this number includes both Group and Functional addresses HCOutMulticast The total number of packets that higher level protocols requested be transmitted and that were addressed to a multicast address at this MLT including those that were discarded or not sent For a MAC layer protocol this number includes both Group and Functional addresses HclnBroadcastPkt The number of packets delivered to this MLT that were addressed to a broadcast address at this sublayer HcOutBroadcast The total number of packets that higher level protocols requested be transmitted and that were addressed to a broadcast address at this MLT including those that were discarded or not sent MultiLink Trunk Ethernet error statistics To view MultiLink Trunk Ethernet error statistics 1 From the Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN gt MLT The MLT dialog box opens Figure 45 Select an MLT by clicking anywhere within a field in the row Click Graph The Statistics MLT dialog box opens Figure 47 with the Interface tab display
2. AdminStatus Current administrative state of the interface which can be one of the following up down When a managed system is initialized all interfaces start with AdminStatus in the down state AdminStatus changes to the up state or remains in the down state as a result of either management action or the configuration information available to the managed system Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 86 Configuring and graphing ports Table 34 Interface tab fields for multiple ports continued Field Description OperStatus Current operational state of the interface which can be one of the following up down testing If AdminStatus is up then OperStatus should be up if the interface is ready to transmit and receive network traffic If AdminStatus is down then OperStatus should be down It should remain in the down state if and only if there is a fault that prevents it from going to the up state The testing state indicates that no operational packets can be passed LastChange Value of the time the interface entered its current operational state If the current state was entered prior to the last reinitialization of the local network management subsystem the value is zero Speed The estimate bandwidth of the interface in bits per second bps For interfaces that do not vary in bandwidth or have no way to estimate the bandwidth this object should contain the nominal
3. Table 18 System tab items continued Item Description AuthenticationTraps Click enable or disable When you select enabled SNMP traps are sent to trap receivers for all SNMP access authentication When you select disabled no traps are received To view traps click the Trap toolbar button NextBootMgmtProtocol The transport protocol s to use after the next boot of the agent CurrentMgmtProtocol The current transport protocol s that the agent supports BootMode The source from which to load the initial protocol configuration information to boot the switch the next time local from the switch or net over the network or none ImageLoadMode The source from which to load the agent image at the next boot Currentlmage Version The version number of the agent image that is currently used on the switch LocalStoragelmageVersion The version number of the agent image that is stored in flash memory on the switch NextBootDefaultGateway The IP address of the default gateway for the agent to use after the next time the switch is booted CurrentDefaultGateway The IP address of the default gateway that is currently in use NextBootLoadProtocol The transport protocol to be used by the agent to load the configuration information and the image at the next boot LastLoadProtocol The transport protocol last used to load the image and configuration information on the switch
4. SerNum PEDOO18869 LstChng Oh 0m 30s AdminState enable C reset OperState normal Location Ep Rettesh Close wen 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 55 Table 19 describes the Base Unit Info tab items Table 19 Base Unit Info tab items Item Description Type The switch type Descr A description of the switch hardware including number of ports and transmission speed Ver The switch hardware version number SerNum The switch serial number LstChng The value of sysUpTime at the time the interface entered its current operational state If the current state was entered prior to the last reinitialization of the local network management subsystem the value is zero AdminState Administrative state of the switch Select either enable or reset Note In a stack configuration Reset only resets the base unit OperState The operational state of the switch Location Type the physical location of the switch Stack Info tab The Stack Info tab provides read only information about the operating status of the stacked switches and whether or not the default factory settings are being used This tab is enabled for a stack of Business Policy Switches or a mixed stack of BayStack 450 and BayStack 410 and Business Policy switches To open the System tab 1 Select the chassis 2 From the shortcut menu choose Edit gt Chassis The Chassis dial
5. tl B amp B close Heln 1 rows Table 44 describes the Snoop tab fields Table 44 Snoop tab fields Field Description Name Name of the VLAN Enable Sets whether IGMP snooping is enabled or disabled ReportProxyEnable Sets whether IGMP report proxy is enabled or disabled Rebustness Allows tuning for the expected packet loss on a subnet If a subnet is expected to be bad the Robustness variable can be increased IGMP is robust to packet losses Ouerylnterval Intervals in seconds between IGMP host and query packets transmitted on an interface MRouterPorts A set of ports in the VLAN that provide connectivity to an IP multicast router ActiveQuerier This is the IP address of a multicast querier router QuerierPort The port that the multicast querier router was heard MRouterExpiration The multicast querier router aging that will be timed out Modifying and managing existing VLANs The main dialog box for managing VLANs in Device Manager is the VLAN dialog box To open the VLAN dialog box m From the Device Manager main menu choose VLAN gt VLANs The VLAN dialog box opens Figure 58 The VLAN dialog box displays all defined VLANs their configurations and their current status 209322 A Creating and managing VLANs 117 Figure 58 VLAN dialog box 10 10 40 29 VLAN mj Name voo Type Stgld PortMembers
6. 2 On the toolbar click Graph The graph Port dialog box opens displaying the Interface tab 3 Click the RMON tab The RMON tab opens Figure 62 Figure 62 Port dialog box RMON tab 10 10 40 26 Port 1 1 AeA OL Sl oe ee a Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 126 RMON Creating a history You can use RMON to collect statistics at intervals For example if you want RMON statistics to be gathered over the weekend you will want enough buckets to cover two days To do this set the history to gather one bucket each hour thus covering a 48 hour period After you set history characteristics you cannot modify them you must delete the history and create another one To establish a history for a port and set the bucket interval 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Control The RMONControl dialog box opens with the History tab displayed Figure 63 Figure 63 History tab lE 10 10 40 26 RmonControl index Port BucketsRequested BucketsGranted interval Owner k A E e Table 48 describes the History fields 2 Select an index and then click Insert The RMONControl Insert History dialog box opens Figure 64 209322 A RMON 127 Figure 64 RMONControl Insert History dialog box Index 57 1 65535 Pot d BucketsRequested Fo 1 65535 Interval fi 800 1 3600 Owner Juser systemtest com Close Hein Select the port from
7. 3 Click the PowerSupply tab The PowerSupply tab opens Figure 29 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 62 Configuring and graphing the switch Figure 29 Edit Chassis dialog box Power Supply tab 10 10 40 26 Chassis x System Base Unit Info Agent SNMP Trap Receivers PowerSupply Fan Chassis 1 Primary PowerSupply normal Chassis 1 Redundant PowerSupply removed Reftesh Close Help Table 24 describes the Power Supply tab fields Table 24 Power Supply tab fields Field Description Desc The power supply type OperStat The operational state of the power supply Possible values include other Some other state notAvail State not available removed Component was removed disabled Operation disabled normal State is in normal operation resetInProg There is a reset in progress testing System is doing a self test warning System is operating at a warning level nonFatalErr System is operating at error level fatalErr A fatal error stopped operation notConfig A module needs to be configured The allowable values are determined by the component type Fan tab The Fan tab provides read only information about the operating status of the switch fans To open the Fan tab 1 Select the chassis 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 63 2 Fromthe shortcut menu choose Edit Chassis The Chassis dia
8. CER Retiesh 21 2 3 4 5 5 7 2 9 10 14 12 13 val vs 16 17 e 19 20 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 Boe ok Close All 3 Click the port numbers you want to add 4 Click OK 5 Inthe Enable column select True to enable your selection Note The first enabled distributed MLT causes the stack to reset Please refer to the switch manuals for more details on MLT rules MultiLink Trunk statistics To view MLT interface statistics 1 From the Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN gt MLT The MLT window opens Figure 47 2 Select an MLT row and then click Graph The Statistics MLT window Figure 47 opens with the Interface tab displayed Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 102 Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports Figure 47 MLT Statistics Interface tab 10 10 40 26 Statistics MLT 3 Interface Ethernet Errors InMulticastPkts AbsoluteValue 0 Cumulative Average Minimum Maximum LastValue 0 Lx e OutMulticastPkts InBroadcastPkts OutBroadcastPkts HClnOctets HCOutOctets HClInUcastPkts HCOutUcastPkts HClInMulticastP kt HCOutMulticast HClInBroadcastP kt ejoejojojojojojojojo oejejejejojejojojojojo HCOutBroadcast ejojojojojojoojojojo eojojojojojojojojojojo eojojojojojojojojojo eojojojojojojojojojojo r Blam e e QI ese Her Poll Interval
9. DiscardTagged Frames This field only applies to access ports It acts as a flag used to determine how to process tagged frames received on this port When the flag is set the frames are discarded by the forwarding process When the flag is reset the frames are processed normally DiscardUntaggedFrames This field only applies to trunk ports It acts as a flag used to determine how to process untagged frames received on this port When the flag is set the frames are discarded by the forwarding process When the flag is reset the frames are assigned to the VLAN specified by rcVlanPortDefaultVlanld DefaultVlanld The VLAN ID assigned to untagged frames received on a trunk port Port Allows you to change the switch port being viewed Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 82 Configuring and graphing ports STG tab for a single port In the Spanning Tree Group STG tab you can view the status and modify the configuration of a port s spanning tree parameters To view the STG tab 1 2 Select the port you want to edit Do one of the following e Double click the selected port e From the shortcut menu choose Edit e From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt Port e On the toolbar click Edit The Port dialog box for a single port opens Figure 36 with the Interface tab displayed Click the STG tab The STG tab opens Figure 38 Figure 38 Edit Port dialog box STG tab 1
10. InUnknownProtos The number of locally addressed datagrams received successfully but discarded because of an unknown or unsupported protocol InDiscards The number of input IP datagrams for which no problems were encountered to prevent their continued processing but that were discarded for example for lack of buffer space Note that this counter does not include any datagrams discarded while awaiting reassembly InDelivers The total number of input datagrams successfully delivered to IP user protocols including ICMP OutRequests The total number of IP datagrams that local IP user protocols including ICMP supplied to IP in requests for transmission Note that this counter does not include any datagrams counted in ipForwDatagrams OutDiscards The number of output IP datagrams for which no problem was encountered to prevent their transmission to their destination but that were discarded for example for lack of buffer space Note that this counter would include datagrams counted in ipForwDatagrams if any such packets met this discretionary discard criterion OutNoRoutes The number of IP datagrams discarded because no route could be found to transmit them to their destination Note that this counter includes any packets counted in ipForwDatagrams that meet this no route criterion Note that this includes any datagrams a host cannot route because all of its default gateways are down FragOKs The
11. NextBootNetMask The subnet mask to be used the next time the switch is booted ValidFlag Indicates if the configuration and or image file s were not been changed downloaded from this interface and if the file names have BootRouterAddr The IP address of the boot router for the configuration file and or the image file MacAddr The switch s MAC address SNMP tab The SNMP tab provides read only information about the addresses that the agent software uses to identify the switch To open the SNMP tab Select the chassis 2 From the shortcut menu choose Edit gt Chassis The Chassis dialog box opens Figure 22 with the System tab displayed 3 Click the SNMP tab The SNMP tab opens Figure 26 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 59 Figure 26 Edit Chassis dialog box SNMP tab 10 10 40 26 Chassis xd System Base Unit Info Agent SNMP Trap Receivers PowerSupply Fan LastUnauthenticatedlpAddress 0 0 0 0 LastUnauthenticatedCommunityString TrpRcvrMaxEnt 4 TrpRevrCurEnt 0 TrpRcvrNext 1 Reftesh Close Help Table 22 describes the SNMP Info tab fields Table 22 SNMP tab fields Field Description LastUnauthenticatedlpAddress The last IP address that was not authenticated by the device LastUnauthenticatedCommunityString The last community string that was not authenticated by the device TrpRevrMaxE
12. Reboot Action object to reboot the agent Reset initiates a hardware reset The agent does best efforts to return a response before the action occurs If any of the combined download actions are requested neither action occurs until the expiration of s5AglnfoScheduleBootTime if set Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 54 Configuring and graphing the switch Base Unit Info tab The Base Unit Info tab provides read only information about the operating status of the hardware and whether or not the default factory settings are being used To open the Base Unit Info tab Select the chassis 2 From the shortcut menu choose Edit Chassis The Chassis dialog box opens with the System tab displayed Figure 22 3 Click the Base Unit Info tab The Base Unit Info tab opens Figure 23 In a stack environment if the base unit number does not begin with the number one the information will not be displayed Use the console interface and the Web based management interface to change your base unit number For detailed information refer to Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 and Using Web based Management for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Figure 23 Edit Chassis dialog box Base Unit Info tab System Base Unit Info Stack Info Agent SNMP Trap Receivers PowerSupply Fan Type 668 Descr 24 10 100BaseTX plus 1 MDA slot and 1 Cascade Slot Ver Business Policy Switch 2000 HW
13. The SecurityList tab opens Figure 78 Figure 78 SecurityList tab 10 10 40 29 Security x General SecurityList AuthConfig AuthStatus AuthViolation SecurityListInd SecurityListMembers D rows Table 55 describes the SecurityList tab fields Table 55 SecurityList tab fields Field Description SecurityListIndx An index of the security list This corresponds to the Security port list that can be used as an index into AuthConfig tab SecurityListWembers The set of ports that are currently members in the Port list Security Insert SecurityList dialog box Security Insert SecurityList dialog box has editable fields for the SecurityList tab Each row in this dialog box has information that can be updated or changed 209322 A Security parameters 151 To view the Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box 1 From the Device Manager menu bar select Edit gt Security The Security window opens with the General tab displayed 2 Click the SecurityList tab The SecurityList tab opens Figure 78 Click inside a row Click Insert The Security Insert SecurityList dialog box opens Figure 79 Figure 79 Security Insert SecurityList dialog box 10 10 40 236 Security Insert Securit EG SecurityListindx 1 255 SecurityListMembers Close Help Table 56 describes the Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box items Table 56 Security Insert AuthConfig d
14. To view RMON Ethernet statistics 1 Select an object port or chassis Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 124 RMON 2 Do one of the following e Double click on the selected port e From the shortcut menu choose Edit e From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt Port or Edit gt Chassis Onthe toolbar click Graph button The Port dialog box opens displaying the Interface tab Figure 61 3 Click the RMON tab The RMON tab opens and displays the Ethernet statistics Figure 61 Figure 61 Port dialog box RMON tab 10 10 40 26 Port 1 1 For descriptions of the RMON tab fields refer to Table 39 on page 97 For descriptions of the statistics columns refer to Table 12 on page 38 Viewing history Ethernet history records periodic statistical samples from a network A sample is called a history and is gathered in time intervals referred to as buckets Histories establish a time dependent method for gathering RMON statistics on a port The default values for history are 209322 A RMON 125 e Buckets are gathered at 30 minute intervals e Number of buckets gathered is 50 Both the time interval and the number of buckets is configurable However when the last bucket is reached bucket 1 is dumped and recycled to hold a new bucket of statistics Then bucket 2 is dumped and so forth To view RMON history Select an object port or chassis
15. iss EE cece ee ke 23 Table 2 SNMP community string default values se ee se ee eee 24 Table 3 Open Device dialog box fields is EE cece eee eee 25 Table 4 Menu bar commaldde oec se aoro EER ER bk KEER BE kk RE SEE N 27 Table 5 Tolba BUBDBS ena es Gud ER des do Sn de i N EE uri dp p TS dog a 28 Table 6 VDA dialog Bax fld so oi qq ERA QA ERU Rer SESDE DS DE DS 32 Table 7 MDA and MDA port colors 3x2 I SRQ coed SER PE RE YE 32 Table 8 wridRes frc APP TNT He 33 Table 9 Switch unit shortcut menu commands llllllsslss 35 Table 10 Port shortcut menu commands EE EE ananena ee ee ee 35 Table 11 Device Manager DUNONG si qaa qued IR RC XE EORR UR AC ede RC dea 36 Table 12 Types ol Statistic seks OER MEER EE DER SEERDE EERDER RR ara 38 Table 13 Graph dialog Box DINIONS auus sad xe GER DR RR DE Rh eae Re 44 Table 14 Help fila locations ous cadat Cok RE RR Ron orca Ro ERROR CR dedica eR aa 46 Table 15 Globale tab iteme uoces cse m RR ERROR Ed he GER EE 48 Table 16 IP Addresses tab items is EE EE 0c ees 49 Tabled ARP tal BIS ione E EG EERS EDE GO EE SERE ee PD KG DR 50 Table 18 System tab items sous ees ce RE EE EE dees eed OR DRIE Kenana EER 52 Table 19 Base Unit Info tab items is EE EE EE RR EG Ee ee ees 55 Table 20 Stack Info tab fields see RR RE ee RR SEER N ERR m SR GR 56 Table 21 Agent tab fields RA RD OR Coon e CRUCE TRU oe Xp dd 58 Table 22 SNMP MGS cuan dcm dee XC a Cn REIR Qoa oe Ca ce eaae re
16. it is probably better to set Discard TaggedFrames to false Then if you convert an interswitch port from an untagged port to a tagged port connectivity is not lost 209322 A Creating and managing VLANs 115 To set a port to discard tagged frames it receives 1 Inthe Device Manager main window select a port 2 From the Device Manager menu bar choose Edit Port The Port dialog box opens displaying the Interface tab 3 Click the VLAN tab The VLAN tab opens Figure 56 Select the DiscardTaggedFrames and the DiscardUntaggFrames check boxes Figure 56 VLAN tab 10 10 40 26 Pottas ES Interface VLAN sto Type access C trunk Vlanids 1 v DiscardTaggedFrames Vv gge Defaultvlanld f 1 4094 ep Refresh Close Heln 4 Click Apply Snoop tab You can use the Snoop tab to enable or disable the VLAN snooping on a switch To open the port based VLAN 1 From the Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN gt VLANs The VLAN dialog box opens Figure 49 with the Basic tab displayed 2 Click the Snoop tab The Snoop tab opens Figure 57 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 116 Creating and managing VLANs Figure 57 Snoop tab Basic Snoop id Name Enable ReporiProxyEnable Robustness Queryinterval MRouterPorts ActiveQuerier QuerierPoril MRouterExpiration T1 VLAN 1 true true 2 255 255 255 209 1 0 351 Em Refresh
17. ojoolsjooojojooo T e Bl amp Close Hein Poll Interval 10s Oh Om 1s Show LastValisec Table 37 describes the Port Ethernet Errors tab fields Table 37 Ethernet Errors tab fields Field Description AlignmentErrors A count of frames received on a particular interface that are not an integral number of octets in length and do not pass the FCS check The count represented by an instance of this object is incremented when the alignmentError status is returned by the MAC service to the LLC or other MAC user Received frames for which multiple error conditions occur are according to the conventions of IEEE 802 3 Layer Management counted exclusively according to the error status presented to the LLC FCSErrors A count of frames received on a particular interface that are an integral number of octets in length but do not pass the FCS check The count represented by an instance of this object is incremented when the frameCheckError status is returned by the MAC service to the LLC or other MAC user Received frames for which multiple error conditions occur are according to the conventions of IEEE 802 3 Layer Management counted exclusively according to the error status presented to the LLC InternalMacTransmitErrors A count of frames for which transmission on a particular interface fails due to an internal MAC sublayer transmit error A frame is only counted by an instance of th
18. 66 Figure 66 RMONControl Insert Ether Stats dialog box Index 29 1 65535 Pf Owner use notelmetworks om Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 130 RMON 4 Select the port s Enter the port number you want or select the port from the list menu Figure 67 Figure 67 RMONControl Insert Ether Stats dialog box port list Index 29 165535 Port El Owner fuse V aalala 7a 40 14 42 13 14 1 18 47 e 40 20 24 22 23 24 28 26 27 28 Cancer Device Manager assigns the index 5 Click Insert The new Ethernet Statistics entry is displayed in the Ether Stats tab Table 49 describes the Ether Stats tab fields Table 49 Ether Stats tab fields Field Description Index A unique value assigned to each interface An index identifies an entry in a table Port Any Ethernet interface on the device Owner The network management system which created this entry Disabling Ethernet statistics gathering To disable Ethernet statistics that you have set 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Control The RMONControl dialog box opens displaying the History tab 2 Click the Ether Stats tab The Ether Stats tab opens Figure 65 209322 A RMON 131 Alarms How 3 Highlight the row that contains the port ID you want to delete 4 Click Delete The Ether Stats ent
19. Description Owner The network management system which created this entry Status The status of this alarm entry Events RMON events and alarms work together to notify you when values in your network are outside of a specified range When values pass the specified ranges the alarm is triggered and fires The event specifies how the activity is recorded How events work An event specifies whether a trap a log or a trap and a log is generated to view alarm activity When RMON is globally enabled two default events are generated e RisingEvent e FallingEvent The default events specify that when an alarm goes out of range the firing of the alarm will be tracked in both a trap and a log For example when an alarm fires at the rising threshold the rising event specifies that this information be sent to both a trap and a log Likewise when an alarm passes the falling threshold the falling event specifies that this information be sent to a trap and a log Viewing an event To view a table of events 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Alarms The RMONAlarms dialog box opens displaying the Alarms tab Figure 72 on page 137 2 Click the Events tab The Events tab opens Figure 73 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 140 RMON Figure 73 RMONAlarms dialog box Events tab 10 10 40 26 Rmon larms Lx Alarms Events Log Index Description Type imeem an Ow
20. OE UEM 97 MLT dialog Bax ie ER IE OE OE IE is 100 nterface tab fields qus cese e RE booed oo oes ROC RR ER RR PR 102 Ethernet Errors tab NGOS 125 oa tees N DRS N ceed OE 105 Basic TAD fields AR uu ue 3 REX ORE EE 109 HOO Slee HIS 25 25 pur DEEP 116 VLAN dialog Dox GS oss c sands EE ER E ewe Oh eed ESDER SEE ERG SRR OS 117 Topology lab HEME ci cee seme ee tes hex Ree ee e ekai 120 Topology Table tab folds uiu ura sad x bip hiec d RE CR Du a i x N 121 HiBIUDE tab IOS asa icy qd ge sen ened EA ca E dad scq dq a 127 Eier Stats tab Bde EER esi utbs REX viboes SERE OE pex Sou 130 RMON Insert Alarm dialog box fields EE EE SE Ee ee ee 136 Alarms tab TINGS uuu eoe ees zs nme dee EE GE RE 137 Events Tab Told is skete cU om RE RC e EROR Reo ERR 140 Be si ii e c Cr DLL 143 General tab Memes si EERDER EE RE PRE EEN dee ew EE RE RE WE 148 SecurtyList tab fields T ad RR Cah AR RE EE AS RR NE A ER 150 Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box fields EE EE ee 151 AuthConfig tab Tields io cess ER REKEN KERR Ek EE HERE NA ER DR 153 Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box fields 154 Authiotatus tab fields i cic been coer eee e nm xxx eee eed 156 Authivislation tab fields uu boc do TREO xw YER x ea ds 158 209322 A 17 Preface Welcome to the Nortel Networks Device Manager software a set of graphical network management applications you can use to configure and manage the Nortel Networks Business Policy Switch 200
21. RR 87 Interface tab for graphing ports EE EE EE EE SE Re de ke 89 Graph Port dialog box Port Ethernet Errors tab 92 Graph Port dialog box Bridge tab llllsssusn 95 Graph Port dialog box RMON tab iss EE EE ss ee ee 96 RM El DOK ucsawxssdeinaXsPbeTa2sQudd40s4m2p EO qqirae 100 PoriMembers dialog DOX i cues exe Rae ac ek wen 101 MLT Statistics Interface tab iussus kae ume ran eee 102 MLT Statics dialog box Ethernet Errors tab 104 RUAN Bast TID uua dob ex Ve x end ede eR dc EUG OE d a den 108 VLAN Insert Basic dialog box for a port based VLANs 110 VLAN Insert Basic dialog box for a protocol based VLAN 111 VLAN Insert Basic dialog box for a source MAC based VLAN 112 EE MEES BOE ES aqq EG DEEG VOED SE v p RU deque 113 MAL VLAN dialog DOE coss kae GER GE RR GEE SR EMM eRe oe 113 Insert VLAN MAC dialog box ee ee 0c eee eee ee 118 IR EE RR EE EE TE 115 Ee albi RR RA ME Gr 116 LIE de eed on MEE Tr 117 Diagnostics dialog box Topology tab EE EE EE eee 119 Diagnostics dialog box Topology Table tab 120 Port dialog box RMON tab seeeee eee 124 Port dialog box RMON tab essem rm Rx ee 125 Ee RE EER EE EER d a dp db did x SERRE EE EI 126 RMONControl Insert History dialog box ie ees Es ed ee eee eee 127 209322 A Figures 13 Figure 65 RMONControl dialog
22. To view or edit the Interface tab for multiple ports 1 Select the ports that you want to edit Ctrl left click the ports that you want to configure A yellow outline appears around the selected ports Do one of the following e From the shortcut menu choose Edit e From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt Port e On the toolbar click Edit 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 85 The Graph Port Interface tab Figure 39 shows port interface statistics Figure 39 Graph Port dialog box Port Interface tab Interface vL AN Mtu PhysAddress AdminStatu 1 24 1 24 Nortel Networks BayStack 460 Ethernet Switch Module Unit 1 Port 24 ethernetCsmacd 1514 00 80 2d 8c1fdf up 2 1 2 1 Nortel Networks BayStack 460 Ethernet Switch Module Unit2Port1 ethemetCsmacd 1514 00 80 2d 8c 1f df up 2 23 2123 Nortel Networks BayStack 460 Ethernet Switch Module Unit 2 Port 23 ethemelCsmacd 1514 00 80 2d 8c 1t drfffi 4 Er Refresh Close em Table 34 describes the Port Interface tab fields Table 34 Interface tab fields for multiple ports Field Description Index A unique value assigned to each interface The value ranges between 12 and 255 Descr Type of switch and number of ports Type Media type for this interface Mtu Size of the largest packet in octets that can be sent or received on the interface PhysAddress MAC address assigned to a particular interface
23. and click ERC at the bottom of the page Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 20 Preface 209322 A 21 Chapter 1 Device Manager basics This chapter describes basic procedures for using the Device Manager software The chapter includes the following information Instructions to start Device Manager set the Device Manager properties and open a device next e Asummary of the Device Manager user interface features and how to use them starting on page 27 e Instructions to view statistics and display graphs page 38 Instructions to use Device Manager to Telnet to a switch page 45 e Information about the trap log page 45 e Information about online Help page 46 Note This version of Device Manager supports Business Policy Switch 2000 software version 1 0 Starting Device Manager 9 Do one ofthe following depending upon your operating system environment e Ina Microsoft Windows environment from the Windows taskbar choose Start gt Programs gt Nortel Frame Switch Management Software gt Device Manager e Ina UNIX environment verify that the Device Manager installation directory is in your search path then enter JDM The initial Device Manager window opens Figure 1 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 22 Device Manager basics Note On startup Device Manager performs a DNS lookup for the machine on w
24. and ports where network access violations have occurred and also the identity of the offending MAC addresses To view the AuthViolation tab 1 From the Device Manager menu bar select Edit gt Security The Security window opens with the General tab displayed Figure 77 2 Click the AuthViolation tab The AuthViolation tab opens Figure 83 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 158 Security parameters Figure 83 AuthViolation tab 10 10 40 29 Security Brdlndx Portind MACAddress Table 60 describes fields for the AuthViolation tab fields Table 60 AuthViolation tab fields Field Description Brdindx The index of the board This corresponds to the slot containing the board The index will be 1 where it is not applicable Portlndx The index of the port on the board This corresponds to the port on that a security violation was seen MACAddress The MAC address of the device attempting unauthorized network access MAC address based security 209322 A 159 Index Symbols lt 64 field 98 21023 field 98 gt 127 field 98 gt 255 field 98 gt 511 field 98 gt 64 field 98 A AbsoluteValue statistics 38 access levels 24 Action field 65 Actions menu 28 ActiveMember field 109 ActiveMembers field 117 ActiveQuerier field 116 Addr field 49 AddrMaskReps field 73 75 AddrMasks field 73 75 Admin field 55 AdminDuplex field 80 86 AdminS
25. are sent or received on the port level Refer to VLAN tab for a single port on page 80 for VLAN tab field descriptions Tagging is set as true or false for the port and applied to all VLANS on that port You can select whether or not to discard e Tagged frames received on a port where tagging is disabled e Untagged frames received on a port where tagging is enabled The default is not to discard the frames You can also designate the port based VLAN to which these frames are assigned by setting the tagged port s default VID the default is 1 A Business Policy Switch 2000 switch port with tagging enabled is a port from which all frames sent are tagged A tagged port can be configured to discard untagged frames or to associate them with a VLAN set by the PVID In the latter case when an untagged frame is received on a tagged port it is sent to the user specified PVID A port with tagging disabled is a port that does not send tagged frames If a tagged frame is forwarded out a port with tagging set to false the switch removes the tag from the frame before sending it out the port When a port with tagging set to false receives a frame it can be configured to discard tagged frames or to associate them with the VLAN specified in the tag Note To optimize performance on untagged ports in configurations where you do not expect to see tagged frames set DiscardTaggedFrames to true However on untagged ports for interconnecting switches
26. bandwidth If the bandwidth of the interface is greater than the maximum value reported by the object then the object displays its maximum value 4 294 967 295 For a sub layer that has no concept of bandwidth the object should be zero AutoNegotiate Indicates whether the port is enabled checked for autonegotiation or not AdminDuplex The current administrative duplex mode of the port half or full OperDuplex Indicate current duplex value of the port AdminSpeed Set the speed of a port none mbps10 and mbps100 OperSpeed The current operating speed of the port Mltld The MultiLink Trunk to which the port is assigned if any VLAN tab for multiple ports The VLAN tab shows the VLAN membership for the selected ports To view or edit the Interface tab for multiple ports 1 Select the ports that you want to edit Ctrl left click the ports that you want to configure A yellow outline appears around the selected ports 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 87 2 Doone ofthe following e From the shortcut menu choose Edit e From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt Port e On the toolbar click Edit The Port dialog box for a multiple port Figure 36 opens with the Interface tab displayed 3 Click the VLAN tab The VLAN tab opens Figure 40 Figure 40 VLAN tab for multiple ports Interface VLAN petatan 1 Type Vlanids DiscardTagged
27. based VLANs Source MAC based VLANs For a further description of VLANS refer to Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 When you create VLANS using Device Manager observe the following rules e The ports in a VLAN or MLT must be a subset of a single spanning tree group e VLANs must have unique VLAN IDs and names e An access port can belong to one and only one protocol based VLAN for a given protocol Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 108 Creating and managing VLANs e The default VLAN VLAN ID 1 cannot be renamed or deleted and it cannot have its type changed from port based VLAN Creating VLANs Device Manager enables you to create a port based or protocol based VLAN Device Manager enables you to create a port based protocol based and source address MAC based VLAN Note After a VLAN is created you cannot change the VLAN type The VLAN must be deleted and a new VLAN of the chosen type created VLAN Information To open the port based VLAN dialog box From the Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN gt VLANs The VLAN dialog box opens with the Basic tab displayed Figure 49 Figure 49 VLAN Basic tab 10 10 40 29 VLAN 111 1424 211 2128 E woven a se ES 209322 A Creating and managing VLANs 109 Table 43 describes the Basic tab fields Table 43 Basic tab fields Field Description Name Name of the VLAN Color An a
28. been manually disabled Orange Port has no link Light Blue Port is in standby mode Dark Blue Port is being tested Gray Port is unmanageable In addition the Help menu provides a legend that identifies the port colors and their meanings Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 34 Device Manager basics Figure 8 Color port legend Device Manager 4 1 0 b03 10 10 40 29 Device Edit Graph VLAN Rmon Actions Hy ri Device Manager El ELI NORTEL Comm Port Device NETWORKS E Legend E Up Business Policy Switch 2000 v v Bl Down Cas 135791 1151719 Aa E No Link des ono pes Standby Statue Down 2 4 6 8 10121416 18202224 d Bi Testing RPSU Base 1000 TESE Ca ae 14 Bet _ Unmanageable NORTEL pene fete her e NETWORKS wm Business Policy Switch 2000 1 3 5 7 E ul 13 5 LI 18 21 23 Cas1357891 S us eed Pwr 107100 Act Status Down 2 4 6 8 10121416 18202224 RPSU Base 07100 F v v F F v Aet Shortcut menus Each object in the device view has a shortcut menu that opens when you right click a selected object The switch shortcut menu provides access to basic hardware information about the switch and to the graphing dialog boxes for the switch Figure 9 Switch unit shortcut menu Comm Port aar E 209322 A Device Manager basics 35 Table 9 describes the commands on the switch unit shortcut menu Table 9 Switch unit shortcut me
29. ecu RR ER RR RE ke RR RR DR ERR RES 30 Selecting multiple objects sus EE RR ER ER RE EE EER RR xxx EE ER x 31 Viewing information about an MDA 2 sis ss RR ER EE dae ee BEEN NR N we RR Rd N 21 LEDS Sn DOES nets AE OE TO PEPPER pL EE 33 SHON NEMS c PE 34 Ede oA CI LT 36 Using the buttons in Device Manager dialog boxes ii EE EE ed 36 E Gib ED BIS AL ORE 3H ORG dor put d DEE Xd NE dor d a P OE x 37 Working with stasies and Graphs uu uae quedo d d snora kar rd C DRAG DEE ES 38 Types Ol N EN AA AR ER does EE ORG EAE RR xx 38 D pedi M PIC De AE TR DE ER AA ba ee ba es 39 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 8 Contents Statistics for single and multiple objects is ER EE ER EE eee ke 41 Viewing Stelloiics as OablliB ad bot qua aded dr qoc s qr e Yo RR RE doe b das 43 PASI TO d SWIGD AO EE ix SO CE SE SIRS SOR Ha 45 AGREE xac EE aca Eb and aus OE NET OE td dac OE dod ODE OE 45 Ba EE EF 46 Chapter 2 Configuring and graphing the switch essere 47 Viewing switch IP ed Es AR AO EO EE s 47 Ee EE AE OIE OE OE RE EE N EG OE OO ds 47 Addresses TAD HT 48 PRP OD ERA EER DE ELTE 49 Editirig ine chassis COHTIQUISIIBR sos eis DER AR id vb Ub EG RR Re RES 50 Gore Caro o ac dab a o poe datiuo hate EUR Door WA OE 51 Pace Mi C Lr RR BEE AA Ba eee AE DER 54 SAGGING TAD EE EE EE RE EE OE EE OE eee 55 le ARE OO A arde rede P ed
30. module related alarms an STG ID for spanning tree group alarms the default STG is 1 other STG IDs are user configured or the Ether Statistics Control Index for alarmname with no dot or index is a port related alarm and results in display of the Sample Type Can be either absolute or delta For more information about sample types refer to Creating alarms on page 133 Sample Interval and falling thresholds Time period in seconds over which the data is sampled and compared with the rising when a rising threshold is crossed The event entry identified by a particular value of this index is the same as identified by the same value of the event index object Generally accept the default that is already filled in Index Uniquely identifies an entry in the alarm table Each such entry defines a diagnostic sample at a particular interval for an object on the device Threshold Type Rising Value Falling Value Value When the current sampled value is When the current sampled value is less than greater than or equal to this threshold or equal to this threshold and the value at and the value at the last sampling the last sampling interval was greater than interval was less than this threshold this threshold generates a single event generates a single event Event Index Index of the event entry that is used Index of the event entry that is used when a falling threshold is crossed The event entry
31. number of IP datagrams that have been successfully fragmented at this entity FragFails The number of IP datagrams that have been discarded because they needed to be fragmented at this entity but could not be for example because their Don t Fragment flag was set FragCreates The number of IP datagram fragments that have been generated as a result of fragmentation at this entity ReasmReqds The number of IP fragments received that needed to be reassembled at this entity Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 72 Configuring and graphing the switch Table 28 Chassis IP tab fields continued Field Description ReasmOKs The number of IP datagrams successfully reassembled ReasmFails The number of failures detected by the IP reassembly algorithm for whatever reason timed out errors etc Note that this is not necessarily a count of discarded IP fragments because some algorithms notably the algorithm in RFC 815 can lose track of the number of fragments by combining them as they are received ICMP In tab The chassis ICMP In tab shows ICMP In statistics To open the ICMP In tab Select the chassis 2 Doone ofthe following e From Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Chassis e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e On the toolbar click Graph The Chassis dialog box opens Figure 32 with the SNMP tab displayed 3 Cli
32. over which data is sampled and compared with the rising and falling thresholds When setting this variable note that in the case of deltaValue sampling you should set the interval short enough so that the sampled variable is very unlikely to increase or decrease by more than 2 31 1 during a single sampling interval Variable The object identifier of the particular variable to be sampled Only variables that resolve to an ASN 1 primitive type of INTEGER INTEGER Counter Gauge or TimeTicks may be sampled Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 138 RMON Table 51 Alarms tab fields continued Field Description Sample Type The method of sampling the selected variable and calculating the value to be compared against the thresholds If the value of this object is absoluteValue 1 the value of the selected variable will be compared directly with the thresholds at the end of the sampling interval If the value of this object is deltaValue 2 the value of the selected variable at the last sample will be subtracted from the current value and the difference compared with the thresholds Value The value of the statistic during the last sampling period For example if the sample type is deltaValue this value is the difference between the samples at the beginning and end of the period If the sample type is absoluteValue this value is the sampled value at the end of the peri
33. status presented to the LLC IMacTransmitError A count of frames for which transmission on a particular MLT fails due to an internal MAC sublayer transmit error A frame is only counted by an instance of this object if it is not counted by the corresponding instance of either the LateCollisions object the ExcessiveCollisions object or the CarrierSenseErrors object IMacReceiveError A count of frames for which reception on a particular MLT fails due to an internal MAC sublayer receive error A frame is only counted by an instance of this object if it is not counted by the corresponding instance of either the FrameTooLongs object the AlignmentErrors object or the FCSErrors object The precise meaning of the count represented by an instance of this object is implementation specific In particular an instance of this object may represent a count of receive errors on a particular interface that are not otherwise counted CarrierSenseErrors The number of times that the carrier sense condition was lost or never asserted when attempting to transmit a frame on a particular MLT The count represented by an instance of this object is incremented at most once per transmission attempt even if the carrier sense condition fluctuates during a transmission attempt Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 106 Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports Table 42 Ethernet Errors tab fields continue
34. the device being managed Using the buttons in Device Manager dialog boxes Table 11 describes buttons in Device Manager dialog boxes Not all buttons appear in all dialog boxes Table 11 Device Manager buttons Button Name Description Insert Opens a dialog box to create a new entry for a table then from the dialog box inserts the new entry in the table E Copy Copies selected cells from a table Paste Pastes copied values to a currently selected table cell Reset Causes changed but not applied fields to revert to their lt Changes previous values Print Table or Prints the table or graph that is displayed Print Graph 209322 A Device Manager basics 37 Table 11 Device Manager buttons continued Button Name Description Stop Stops the current action compiling saving and so forth Stop If you are updating or compiling a large data table the Refresh button changes to a Stop button while this action is taking place Clicking the Stop button interrupts the polling process Export Data Exports information to a file you specify You can then import this file into a text editor or spreadsheet for further analysis Editing objects You can edit objects and values in the Device Manager device view in the following ways e Select an object and on the toolbar click the Edit Selected button The edit dialog box opens for that object e From
35. the graphical representation of the switch are different from the actual switch This section explains these conventions and how information is visually displayed on the MDAs and ports Table 7 describes the colors in the graphical representation of the MDA and its ports The ports on the chassis representation are color coded to provide port status Table 7 MDA and MDA port colors Color Description Green The module port is operating Red The module port is present but not operating 209322 A Device Manager basics 33 Table 7 MDA and MDA port colors continued Color Description Dark blue Port is being tested Dark red Port has been manually disabled Orange Port has no link A blinking LED on an MDA is not indicated in the graphical representation of the switch For a full description of switch LEDs refer to the respective switch user manuals LEDs and ports The color of LEDs in the device view is the same as the colors of the LEDs on the physical switch However the device view does not show blinking activity of the LEDs For a full description of the LEDs for the Business Policy Switch refer to Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 The ports on the device view are color coded to show port status Table 8 shows the status assigned to each color Table8 Port color codes Color Description Green Port is operating Red Port has
36. the user Read Community SNMP read community string for the device Defaultis public displayed as The entry is case sensitive Write Community SNMP write community string for the device Default is private displayed as The entry is case sensitive 2 In the Device Name text box type the DNS name or IP address of the device Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 26 Device Manager basics 3 Inthe Read Community and Write Community text boxes type the proper community strings Note To gain Read Write All access to a device in Device Manager you must enter the Read Write All community string for both the Read Community and Write Community strings 4 Click Open Device Manager automatically determines what version of software the selected device is running and displays the appropriate Device Manager dialog boxes The Device Manager window opens showing a picture of the device Figure 4 that represents the physical features of the device Figure 4 Device view Device Manager 4 1 0 b03 10 10 40 29 Device Edit Graph VLAN Rmon Actions Help Samo fe es NORTEL KS a Business Policy Switch 2000 WP TEE TEE w ES ERES 3 Tere E A di di dd ase OD ERIZA ao Act r NORTEL iks e Business Policy Switch 2000 ww TEE TT o o HEN vvr bdk di AE JL A d 7 O sswasEEEEEEE 14 16 LU 209322 A Device Manager basics 27
37. 0 This guide provides information about using the features and capabilities of the Java based Device Manager graphical user interface GUI to perform network management operations for the switch Note This version of Device Manager supports Business Policy Switch software version 1 0 Before you begin This guide is intended for network administrators with the following background Basic knowledge of networks and Ethernet bridging e Familiarity with networking concepts and terminology Basic knowledge of network topologies e Familiarity with GUIs Text conventions This guide uses the following text conventions italic text Indicates book titles separator gt Shows menu paths Example Protocols gt IP identifies the IP option on the Protocols menu Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 18 Preface Related publications Refer to the following publications for information to help you develop your documentation e Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 part number 208700 A e Business Policy Switch 2000 Installation Instructions part number 209319 A Getting Started with the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software part number 209321 A These documents provide information about the Business Policy Switch including installation instructions and configuration settings You can print selected technical manuals and release notes free directly from the
38. 10s Table 41 describes the fields in the Interface tab Table 41 Interface tab fields Field Description InMulticastPkt The number of packets delivered to this MLT that were addressed to a multicast address at this sublayer For a MAC layer protocol this number includes both Group and Functional addresses OutMulticast The total number of packets that higher level protocols requested be transmitted and that were addressed to a multicast address at this MLT including those that were discarded or not sent For a MAC layer protocol this number includes both Group and Functional addresses InBroadcastPkt The number of packets delivered to this MLT that were addressed to a broadcast address at this sublayer OutBroadcast The total number of packets that higher level protocols requested be transmitted and that were addressed to a broadcast address at this MLT including those that were discarded or not sent HCInOctets The total number of octets received on the MLT interface including framing characters HCOutOctets The total number of octets transmitted out of the MLT interface including framing characters HCInUcastPkts The number of packets delivered by this MLT to higher level protocols that were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sublayer 209322 A Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports 103 Table 41 Interface tab fields continued
39. A 119 Chapter 6 Troubleshooting Device Manager This chapter describes diagnostic information available in Device Manager on the following tabs e Topology tab this page e Topology Table tab page 120 Topology tab To view topology information m From the Device Manager menu bar select Edit gt Diagnostics The Diagnostics dialog box opens with the Topology tab displayed Figure 59 Figure 59 Diagnostics dialog box Topology tab 10 10 40 29 Diagnostics xi Topology Topology Table IpAddr 10 10 40 29 Status topon C topOff NmmbLstChg 1 day 7h 6m 34s NmmbhaxNum 100 NmmcCurNum 2 py Refresh Closel Help Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 120 Troubleshooting Device Manager Topology Table tab Table 46 describes the Topology tab items Table 46 Topology tab items Items Description IpAddr The IP address of the device Status Whether Nortel Networks topology is on topOn or off topOff for the device The default value is topOn NmmLstChg The value of sysUpTime the last time an entry in the network management MIB NMM topology table was added deleted or modified If the table has not changed since the last cold or warm start of the agent NmmMaxNum The maximum number of entries in the NMM topology table NmmCurNum The current number of entries in the NMM topology table To view more topo
40. ActiveMembers Protocolld UserDefinedPid 1 VLAN 1 D byPort 1 1 1 1 24 2 1 2 28 1 1 1 24 2 1 2 28 none 0 3 VLAN 3 3lbysreMac 1 2n 2 3 2n 2 3 none 0 4 VLAN 4 4 byProtocolld 1 lip timeout at 3 rows Note After a VLAN is created you cannot change the VLAN type The VLAN must be deleted and a new VLAN of the chosen type created Table 45 describes the fields in the VLAN dialog box Table 45 VLAN dialog box fields Field Description ld The VLAN ID for the VLAN unlabeled farthest left column Name The name of the VLAN Color The color used for visual purposes only by VLAN Manager to associate a color with a VLAN The assigned color does not affect the behavior of a frame only the attributes assigned to the VLAN Type Indicates the type of VLAN byPort or byProtocolld Stgld The spanning tree group ID to which the VLAN belongs PortMembers The ports that are members of the VLAN w ActiveMembers The ports that are members of the VLAN Protocolld The protocol for protocol based VLANS This value is taken from the Assigned Numbers RFC For port based VLANS none is the displayed value UserDefined When rcVlanProtocolld is set to usrDefined 15 in a protocol based VLAN this field represents the 16 bit user defined protocol identifier Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 118 Creating and managing VLANs 209322
41. DITIONS LICENSEE FURTHER AGREES THAT THIS AGREEMENT IS THE ENTIRE AND EXCLUSIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN NORTEL NETWORKS 209322 A AND LICENSEE WHICH SUPERSEDES ALL PRIOR ORAL AND WRITTEN AGREEMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE PARTIES PERTAINING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT NO DIFFERENT OR ADDITIONAL TERMS WILL BE ENFORCEABLE AGAINST NORTEL NETWORKS UNLESS NORTEL NETWORKS GIVES ITS EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT INCLUDING AN EXPRESS WAIVER OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 209322 A Contents PIENO BERE EE OE EE OE OE DE OE re 17 Beiore vou DEJ N sus inr ER ewe EER RR SR RE WERE ER EDE HERE RS RE BERE EN GE Eg 17 TOXUCORVEHIO E ER RR ME OE EE EE EN N 17 ao eehehe s HERE oes cr E MORA OR EERS 18 HOW es die EE Rx EE EE deen ee 19 Chapter 1 Device Manager basics ccc ss ses da ER Wi he i REIS ed redisse ad bees 21 Starling Dovice Manager soe io ER ER x e EER a BOER DER N N ecd d ab ODE a 21 Setting the Device Manager properties iss EE EE EE EE Ee eee 22 berde DOCS DEDE 24 Device Manager WITIdOW 2460 66 KEES SERE KERE SR RRM awe Se RR ARE OO SERE N 2r MONU DAF EE EE ER ER EE Bi i ae a 27 ek AMOR EE EO EE OE EE OO pic oec uon ae OE ae 28 Graphical representation of the switch EE EE EE EE EE eee eee eee 28 DEVICE VIBW Mm br VISA b VW Sd does ac EE Kd Rd dowd 30 run DOE rr a C A Ee N EG bg had RD Re Ee Ep ad 30 Selecting a single OMG iis ke eu
42. Device Manager window The Device Manager window Figure 5 has the following parts e Menu bar e Toolbar e Device view e Status bar Figure 5 Parts of the Device Manager window Device Manager 4 1 0 b01 10 10 40 29 enu bar Device Edit Graph VLAN Rmon Actions Help Toolbar SAE sa NORTEL s e Business Policy Switch 2000 Device view 1 3 5 7 E Ll 13 6 LI 13 ral 23 E jas w EA AM AA Ad a ot T TRE Status Down 2 4 amp 8 1012 1416 18202224 dd sd Luka dudes DV 2 NORTEL Re id Business Policy Switch 2000 Cas41 3579 N 131517192123 Pwr Ur Act 2 4 amp 8101214 16 18202224 107100 Act Status bar Menu bar Use the menu bar to set up and operate Device Manager Table 4 Table 4 Menu bar commands Command Description Device Opens the Open Device dialog box Edit Opens edit dialog boxes for selected objects in the device view This command also opens dialog boxes for managing files and running diagnostic tests Graph Opens statistics dialog boxes for the selected object VLAN Opens dialog boxes for managing VLANs spanning tree groups STGs and Multi Link Trunks Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 28 Device Manager basics Table 4 Menu bar commands continued Command Description Rmon Opens RMON configuration and monitoring dialog boxes Actions Provides quick opening of a Telnet session with
43. EE EE EE EE EE 26 Figure 5 Parts of the Device Manager window ie is EE Re EE ke ek se 27 Figure Objects in the device view ia RAS EER RR e EERS VR RS RR wes 30 Figura MDAUlalog BOX 263 sie i EE DERS SKEER DE EEN w tease EE 32 Figures Color por legend sies ves EER ENE RAD RR we Od BREER dead ER a 34 Figure D Switch unit shortcut meni iss ER ER Rs xs 34 Figurg10 Portshoricut Mem iss oase SN SERS HERRIE SEER sane ead HERKEN 35 Figure 11 MDAsWdricut MENU sie ees KEER MR BEEK RE ER Die N ER GE KON os 36 EE ADA ki EEN EO OE EIE 39 GEE ONA EE Ss uk pain RE du 39 Ligue 148 ia Da oe pas Ska RR doen EE d aca aca p e EO ARR Ee ee 40 Figure TS Piegaph ME OE EE EE REPRE e Ree RR aii 40 Figure 16 Interface statistics for a single port liliis 41 Figure 17 Interface statistics for multiple ports llle 42 Figure 18 Statistics dialog box fora port iis se RE EER RR xxx s 43 Foue 19 EE EL AIR EE OE AO OR OE qd d 48 Figure 20 Edit IP dialog box IP Address tab seslsses 49 Figure 21 Edt IP dialog Box ARP iab auuieeos tese spar Rar tiri inis 50 Figure 22 Edit Chassis dialog box System tab iis ed ds ee de ke eee 52 Figure 23 Edit Chassis dialog box Base Unit Info tab 54 Figure 24 Edit Chassis dialog box Stack Info tab ie EE EE Ee de ke 56 Figure 25 Edit Chassis dialog box Agent tab ii is ee se ed se ed se 58 Figure 26 Edit Chassis dialog box SNM
44. Enter the unique VLAN ID 5 Enter the VLAN name optional If no name is entered the protocol name becomes the default VLAN name 6 Enter a color optional Device Manager will suggest a color but it can be changed 209322 A Creating and managing VLANs 113 7 Type in the spanning tree group ID of the VLAN 8 Inthe Type field click bySrcMac if not already selected 9 Specify the static membership by clicking the ellipsis field 10 Click Insert The VLAN dialog box opens Figure 53 Figure 53 VLAN dialog box 10 10 40 29 VLAN 11 Highlight the BySrcMac field 12 Click MAC The MAC VLAN dialog box opens Figure 54 Figure 54 MAC VLAN dialog box 10104029 MACVLANS Ed Jes eran pes res RUIN EET 13 Click Insert The Insert VLAN MAC dialog box opens Figure 55 Figure 55 Insert VLAN MAC dialog box 10 10 40 29 MAC VLAN 5 Insert VLAN MAC isen close vens 14 Type the source MAC address for the VLAN Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 114 Creating and managing VLANs 15 Click Insert Note In a source MAC based VLAN a potential member becomes an active member of the VLAN when a frame with the specified source MAC address is received Source MAC based VLANs are not supported in a mixed stack environment Accepting tagged and untagged frames In the Business Policy Switch 2000 you configure whether or not tagged frames
45. Frames DiscardUntaggedFrames 1 1 2 access 1 12 Er Refresh Close Help Table 35 describes the VLAN tab fields for multiple ports Table 35 VLAN tab fields for multiple ports Field Description Type Indicates the type of VLAN port Trunk or Access port If the port is a trunk port the port is probably a member of more than one VLAN If the port is an access port the port can only be a member of one VLAN if there is no membership conflict Vlanlds The VLANIDs of which this port is a member DiscardTaggedFrames This field only applies to access ports It acts as a flag used to determine how to process tagged frames received on this port When the flag is set the frames are discarded by the forwarding process When the flag is reset the frames are processed normally Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 88 Configuring and graphing ports Table 35 VLAN tab fields for multiple ports continued Field Description DiscardUntaggedFrames This field only applies to trunk ports It acts as a flag used to determine how to process untagged frames received on this port When the flag is set the frames are discarded by the forwarding process When the flag is reset the frames are assigned to the VLAN specified by rcVlanPortDefaultVlanld DefaultVlanld The VLAN ID assigned to untagged frames received on a trunk port Graphing port statistics Y
46. From the shortcut menu choose Edit e From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt Chassis 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 51 e On the toolbar click Edit The following sections provide a description of the tabs in the Edit Chassis dialog box and details about each item on the tab System tab You can use the System tab to specify among other things tracking information for a device and device descriptions To open the System tab 1 Select the chassis 2 From the shortcut menu choose Edit gt Chassis The Chassis dialog box opens with the System tab displayed Figure 22 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 52 Configuring and graphing the switch Figure 22 Edit Chassis dialog box System tab 10 10 40 29 Chassis time and date using the system clock of the Device Manager machine as a reference Note The chassis keeps track of the elapsed time and calculates the gt Table 18 describes the System tab items Table 18 System tab items Item Description sysDescr The assigned system name sysUpTime The time since the system was last booted sysContact Type the contact information in this case an e mail address for the system administrator sysName Type the name of this device SysLocation Type the physical location of this device 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 53
47. Ga D cese ner fos sd Table 28 describes the Chassis IP tab fields Table 28 Chassis IP tab fields Field Description InReceives The total number of input datagrams received from interfaces including those received in error InHdrErrors The number of input datagrams discarded due to errors in their IP headers including bad checksums version number mismatch other format errors time to live exceeded errors discovered in processing their IP options InAddrErrors The number of input datagrams discarded because the IP address in the IP header destination field was not a valid address This count includes invalid addresses for example 0 0 0 0 and addresses of unsupported Classes for example Class E For addresses that are not IP Gateways and therefore do not forward datagrams this counter includes datagrams discarded because the destination address was not a local address 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 71 Table 28 Chassis IP tab fields continued Field Description ForwDatagrams The number of input datagrams for which this entity was not their final IP destination as a result of which an attempt was made to find a route to forward them to that final destination For addresses that do not act as IP Gateways this counter will include only those packets that were Source Routed by way of this address and had successful Source Route option processing
48. Help Poll Interval J10s _ Oh Om 24s 3 Select a tab for the group of statistics you want to view 4 On the displayed data table drag to select the cells you want to graph They must be in the same row or column Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 44 Device Manager basics 5 Click one of the graph buttons at the bottom of the dialog box See Types of graphs on page 39 A graph dialog box opens for the selected graph type 6 To print a copy of the graph click Print Buttons at the top of the graph dialog boxes for line area and bar graphs allow you to change the orientation of the graph change the scale or change the graph type Table 13 describes the buttons in the graph dialog boxes Table 13 Graph dialog box buttons Button Name Description Stacked Stacks data quantities instead of displaying them side by side Horizontal Rotates the graph 90 degrees Log Scale Changes the scale of the x axis of an unrotated graph from numeric to logarithmic Line Chart Converts an area graph or bar graph to a line graph ae Area Chart Converts a line graph or bar graph to an area graph F Bar Chart Converts a line graph or area graph to a bar graph 209322 A Device Manager basics 45 Telneting to a switch From Device Manager you can initiate a Telnet session to the console interface for the switch or stack you are c
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50. P tab ei ee ee ek ee ee eee ke 59 Figure 27 Edit Chassis dialog box Trap Receivers tab sees Ee ek ee 60 Figure 28 Chassis Insert Trap Receive dialog BOX se RE ER RE EE Re 61 Figure 29 Edit Chassis dialog box Power Supply tab is se ee se 62 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 12 Figures Figure 30 Figure 31 Figure 32 Figure 33 Figure 34 Figure 35 Figure 36 Figure 37 Figure 38 Figure 39 Figure 40 Figure 41 Figure 42 Figure 43 Figure 44 Figure 45 Figure 46 Figure 47 Figure 48 Figure 49 Figure 50 Figure 51 Figure 52 Figure 53 Figure 54 Figure 55 Figure 56 Figure 57 Figure 58 Figure 59 Figure 60 Figure 61 Figure 62 Figure 63 Figure 64 Edit Chassis dialog box Fan tab iii is ey ER SR ua sw ace ym ama 63 Edi Filssysism dialog DEK 233334 SR RE GR Ee RR RC CR a dC d 64 Graph Chassis dialog box Chassis SNMPtab 67 Graph Chassis dialog box IP tab ie EE EE EE EE ee ee ee 70 Graph Chassis dialog box ICMP In tab EE EE ee ees T3 Graph Chassis dialog box ICMP Out tab 4 74 Edit Port dialog box Interface tab 0 2200000 cee 78 Edit Port dialog box VLAN tab se scene ENE REM ENE Rm 81 Edit Part dialog Box STG tab ER deb oo be RR XP e EER WE 82 Graph Port dialog box Port Interface tab Es EE ee ee 85 VLAN tab for multiple POMS 202 GEE ERGE EE E xxm ORE ERE RR
51. Part No 209322 A August 2000 4401 Great America Parkway Santa Clara CA 95054 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software NORTEL NETWORKS Copyright 2000 Nortel Networks All rights reserved August 2000 The information in this document is subject to change without notice The statements configurations technical data and recommendations in this document are believed to be accurate and reliable but are presented without express or implied warranty Users must take full responsibility for their applications of any products specified in this document The information in this document is proprietary to Nortel Networks NA Inc The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of that license The software license agreement is included in this document Trademarks NORTEL NETWORKS is a trademark of Nortel Networks Optivity is a registered trademark and BayStack is a trademark of Nortel Networks Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners Restricted rights legend Use duplication or disclosure by the United States Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph c 1 ii of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252 227 7013 Notwithstanding any other lice
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53. UcastPkts OutNUcastPkts E InDiscards E OutDiscards 60000000 WinErrors OutErrors 40000000 20000000 Figure 15 Pie graph Z 10 10 40 26 Port 1 1 Interface AbsoluteValue oy x EES 8656 InOctets W 12 OutOctets 096 InUcastPkts E 096 OutUcastPkts 196 InNUcastPkts E 0 OutNUcastPkts E 0 InDiscards W 0 OutDiscards 0 InErrors 0 OutErrors 209322 A Device Manager basics 41 Statistics for single and multiple objects Statistics for a selected object or objects are displayed in the statistics dialog box The dialog box for a single object shows all six types of statistics for each counter Figure 16 Figure 16 Interface statistics for a single port 10 10 40 29 graphPort 2 1 EtnemetEnors Briagel Rmon O OZ OoOo o o E2 eaj aj S B S cese ve fros 2 The statistics dialog box for multiple objects shows a single type of statistics Table 12 for the selected objects For example Figure 17 shows LastValue statistics for the selected ports Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 42 Device Manager basics Figure 17 Interface statistics for multiple ports 10 10 40 29 graphPort InOctets 2 i OY EET tatistics type To change the type of statistics displayed select a different type from the show list at the bottom of the dialog box The statistics are updated based on the poll interval shown at the bottom of the dialog box
54. You can select a different polling interval Buttons for bar pie and line graphs are located at the bottom of a statistics dialog box See the next section Viewing statistics as graphs for instructions to use these buttons You can export the statistics to a tab separated file format and import the file into other applications To export the information use the Export Data button below the table 209322 A Device Manager basics 43 Viewing statistics as graphs To create a graph for an object 1 Select the object or objects to be graphed See Selecting objects on page 30 2 Doone ofthe following Onthe toolbar click Graph Selected ad e From the shortcut menu for the object choose Graph e From the main menu choose Graph gt Chassis or Graph gt Port A statistics dialog box opens with tabs for different categories of statistics for the selected object Figure 18 Figure 18 Statistics dialog box for a port 10 10 40 29 graphPort 2 23 Interface Ethemet Errors Bridge Rmon AbsoluteValue Cumulative InOctets 45 120 985 Average sec Minimum sec 113 208 Maximumisec LastValisec 122 3 122 3 OutOctets InUcastPkts 256 0 OutUcastPkts InNUcastPkts OutNUcastPkts InDiscards OutDiscards e ojojo co DIO InErrors OutErrors 0 0 0 OO c InUnknownProtos 0 ojo eojojo Ba Ca I eve
55. a switch or port shortcut menu choose Edit The edit dialog box opens for that object When you change the value in a box the changed value is displayed in bold However changes are not applied to the running configuration until you click Apply Note Many dialog boxes contain a Refresh button After you apply changes to fields click Refresh to display the new information in the dialog box Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 38 Device Manager basics Working with statistics and graphs Device Manager tracks a wide range of statistics for each switch the stack chassis and each port You can view and graph statistics for a single object or multiple objects For information about the statistics tracked for the switch and ports refer to Statistics for single and multiple objects on page 41 and Graphing chassis statistics on page 65 This section describes the types of statistics and graphs available the graph dialog boxes and the procedure for creating a graph Types of statistics The data tables in the statistics dialog boxes list the counters or categories of statistics being gathered for the specified object For example the categories for ports include Interface Ethernet Errors Bridge and Rmon Each category can be associated with six types of statistics Table 12 Types of statistics Statistic Description AbsoluteValue The total count since the last time co
56. ab Select the chassis 2 From the shortcut menu choose Graph gt Chassis The Chassis dialog box opens Figure 22 with the System tab displayed 3 Click the SNMP tab The SNMP tab opens Figure 32 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 67 Figure 32 Graph Chassis dialog box Chassis SNMP tab 10 10 40 29 Chassis gg e al Soos ven fos s Table 27 describes the SNMP tab fields Table 27 SNMP tab fields Field Description InPkts The total number of messages delivered to the SNMP from the transport service OutPkts The total number of SNMP messages passed from the SNMP protocol to the transport service InTotalReqVars The total number of MIB objects retrieved successfully by the SNMP protocol as the result of receiving valid SNMP Get Request and Get Next PDUs InTotalSetVars The total number of MIB objects altered successfully by the SNMP protocol as the result of receiving valid SNMP Set Request PDUs Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 68 Configuring and graphing the switch Table 27 SNMP tab fields continued Field Description InGetRequests The total number of SNMP Get Request PDUs that have been accepted and processed by the SNMP protocol InGetNexts The total number of SNMP Get Next PDUs accepted and processed by the SNMP protocol InSetRequests The total number of SNMP Set Request PDU
57. b usr local share bin opt OV bin home jblogs bin Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 144 RMON Ensure that the HP OpenView directory is in path opt OV bin MIB files are shipped with the Device Manager and are located in the following directory dm hpov baystack mibs Load each of the MIB files in the following order e bayAgent mib e bayChas mib e bayChasTraps mib bayEMTmib e baylfex mib e bayS5Reg mib e baySSRt mib e baySSTcs mib e baySRoot mib e rc vlan mib e rfc1213 mib e rfcl215 mib e rfcl1447 mib e rfcl450 mib e rfc1493 mib e rfc1573 bs mib e fcl573 rcc mib e rfcl1643 mib e rfcl1757 mib e rfcl757 rcc mib e rfc1907 mib Now you can start HP OpenView 209322 A RMON 145 Log only event bug HP OpenView versions 4 0 and 5 0 contain bugs that do not affect the integrity of the product when it stands alone However when combined with Device Manager unexpected results occur The Log only event categorization bug in HP OpenView 4 0 causes traps to be written to the ASCII trap log file and to be displayed in the event browser The default category for SNMP traps such as link up and link down happens to be Log only The correct procedure for an event trap with a Log only categorization is that it should only be written to the ASCII trap log file In version 4 0 standard SNMP traps are displayed in t
58. be sent or received on the interface PhysAddress The MAC address assigned to a particular interface AdminStatus The current administrative state of the interface which can be one of the following up down When a managed system is initialized all interfaces start with AdminStatus in the down state AdminStatus changes to the up state or remains in the down state as a result of either management action or the configuration information available to the managed system OperStatus The current operational state of the interface which can be one of the following up down testing If AdminStatus is up then OperStatus should be up if the interface is ready to transmit and receive network traffic If AdminStatus is down then OperStatus should be down It should remain in the down state if and only if there is a fault that prevents it from going to the up state The testing state indicates that no operational packets can be passed Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 80 Configuring and graphing ports Table 31 Interface tab items for a single port continued Field Description LastChange The value of sysUpTime at the time the interface entered its current operational state If the current state was entered prior to the last reinitialization of the local network management subsystem the value is zero AutoNegotiate Indicates whether this port is enabled for auton
59. bed in the following procedure generates at least one alarm every five minutes The example is intended only to demonstrate how alarms fire it is not a useful alarm Because of the high frequency you may want to delete this alarm and replace it with a practical setting To create an alarm to receive statistics and history using default values 1 Doone ofthe following e From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Alarm Manager e On the toolbar click the Alarm Manager button The Alarm Manager dialog box opens Figure 70 Figure 70 Alarm Manager dialog box Device Manager 4 0 0 b26 10 10 40 26 Alarm Manager EG Variable zi Sample Type C absolute delta Sample Interval 10 1 3600 secs Index fi 1 65535 Threshold Type Rising Value Falling Value Value Event Index Jefauit Jaefault ven sees 209322 A RMON 135 2 In the variable field select a variable for the alarm from the list and a port or other ID on which you want to set an alarm Figure 71 Figure 71 Alarm variable list Variable el Bridge Sample Type C absolute delta Interface L A Ethernet Errors gt Sample Interval 10 1 3600 secs etherStatsOctets Index i 1 65535 IP Bl EER Threshold Type Rising Value Falling Value SNMP etherStatsBroadcastPlts Value etherStatsMulticastPkts Event Index default deraut etherStatsCRCAlignErrors omen came etherStatsUndersizePkts eth
60. ble falls outside of the rising or falling value range an alarm is triggered and an event is logged or trapped When you create an alarm you also select a sample type which can be either absolute or delta Absolute alarms are defined on the cumulative value of the alarm variable An example of an alarm defined with absolute value is card operating status Because this value is not cumulative but instead represents states such as card up value 1 and card down value 2 you set it for absolute value Therefore an alarm could be created with a rising value of 2 and a falling value of 1 to alert a user to whether the card is up or down Most alarm variables related to Ethernet traffic are set to delta value Delta alarms are defined based on the difference in the value of the alarm variable between the start of the polling period and the end of the polling period Delta alarms are sampled twice per polling period For each sample the last two values are added together and compared to the threshold values This process increases precision Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 134 RMON and allows for the detection of threshold crossings that span the sampling boundary If you track the current values of a given delta valued alarm and add them together therefore the result is twice the actual value This result is not an error in the software Alarm Manager example Note The example alarm descri
61. box Ether Stats tab iii see Ee ese 129 Figure 66 RMONControl Insert Ether Stats dialog BOX i e ese ee Ek ed ee 128 Figure 67 RMONControl Insert Ether Stats dialog box port list 130 FIGURES OW la TIER od outs xou cct dos dn xad been EE Pad add 122 Figure 69 Alarm example threshold less than 260 0 00 133 Figure 70 Alarm Manager dialog box 0 cece eee 134 Figure 7 Alani variable SP is EES MEE RES EE DRR EERS Ripe red du DEE 135 Figure 72 RMONAIarms dialog box Alarms tab se EE Ee SE Ee ee se 187 Figure 73 RMONAlarms dialog box Events tab se ee Ee SE ke de se 140 Figure 74 Insert Events dialog box ss c xs RR c edd DR EV OR 141 Figure 75 New event in the Events tab iss EE EE EE see ee ee se 141 Figur 76 ii NE OR EL NE EO dee gio d ORC EO IE 142 Figure 77 erieral OD iS adapt accu GED IE og ard ikea N 148 Figure 78 SecuntyList Tali sis uu cue ux Re ideaa Rr dee ee dee EER NE x 150 Figure 79 Security Insert SecurityList dialog BOX Ee EE EE ee eee eee 191 Figure Bo Jumtbconllg IBB iss oe swidseaed KERS ER RR EES SR ER GG Re PARES 152 Figure 81 Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box ie EE EE ee eee ke 154 Foure g2 n OE ES RO DE dora Wado ok ve EE RR ET 156 Figure So uile EO EE OOR RE FO 158 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 14 Figures 209322 A 15 Tables Table 1 Properties dialog box items
62. ccessfully transmitted frames on a particular MLT for which transmission is inhibited by more than one collision A frame that is counted by an instance of this object is also counted by the corresponding instance of either the ifOutUcastPkts ifOutMulticastPkts or ifOutBroadcastPkts and is not counted by the corresponding instance of the SingleCollisionFrames object LateCollisions The number of times that a collision is detected on a particular MLT later than 512 bit times into the transmission of a packet Five hundred and twelve bit times corresponds to 51 2 microseconds on a 10 Mb s system A late collision included in a count represented by an instance of this object is also considered as a generic collision for purposes of other collision related statistics ExcessiveColls A count of frames for which transmission on a particular MLT fails due to excessive collisions 209322 A 107 Chapter 5 Creating and managing VLANs VLANs This chapter describes using Device Manager to manage VLANS on your Business Policy Switch 2000 The chapter covers creating editing and deleting VLANS It includes the following sections e VLANs this page e Creating VLANs page 108 e Modifying and managing existing VLANs page 116 A VLAN is a collection of ports on one or more switches that define a broadcast domain The Business Policy Switch supports three types of VLANs e Port based VLANs e Protocol
63. chassis is not modeling a virtual chassis or component is not in Board or Unit group the value is a zero length string 2 If this object is applicable and is not assigned a value through a SNMP SET PDU when the row is created the value will default to the value of the object ssChasComSerNum LstChng The value of sysUpTime when it was detected that the component sub component was added to the chassis If this has not occurred since the cold warm start of the agent then the value is zero AdminState The state of the component or subcomponent The values that are read only are other currently in some other state e notAvail actual value is not available The possible values that can be read and written are 1 disable disables operation 2 enable enables operation 3 reset resets component 4 test starts self test of component with the result to be normal warning nonFatalErr or fatalErr in object ssChasComOperState The allowable and meaningful values are determined by the component type 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 57 Table 20 Stack Info tab fields continued Field Description OperState The current operational state of the component The possible values are other some other state e notAvail state not available removed component removed e disabled operation disabled normal normal operation resetlnProg reset in pro
64. ck the ICMP In tab The ICMP In tab opens Figure 34 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 73 Figure 34 Graph Chassis dialog box ICMP In tab SNMP IP ICMP In ICMP out AbsoluteValue Cumulative Average Minimum Maximum LastValue 0 0 0 e e ce ejojojjojojojojojojo ejojojiojojooiojoio ejojijojojojojojo ejojojojojojojojoio ejojjojojojojijoio ejojojojojojojojoljo Emm 8 5 cose Help Poll interval 10s z Table 29 describes the ICMP In tab fields Table 29 ICMP In tab fields Field Description SrcQuenchs The number of ICMP Source Quench messages received Redirects The number of ICMP Redirect messages received Echos The number of ICMP Echo request messages received EchoReps The number of ICMP Echo Reply messages received Timestamps The number of ICMP Timestamp request messages received TimestampReps The number of ICMP Timestamp Reply messages received AddrMasks The number of ICMP Address Mask Request messages received AddrMaskReps The number of ICMP Address Mask Reply messages received ParmProbs The number of ICMP Parameter Problem messages received DestUnreachs The number of ICMP Destination Unreachable messages received TimeExcds The number of ICMP Time Exceeded messages received Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 74 C
65. d Field Description FrameTooLong A count of frames received on a particular MLT that exceed the maximum permitted frame size The count represented by an instance of this object is incremented when the frameTooLong status is returned by the MAC service to the LLC or other MAC user Received frames for which multiple error conditions occur are according to the conventions of IEEE 802 3 Layer Management counted exclusively according to the error status presented to the LLC SQETestError A count of times that the SQE TEST ERROR message is generated by the PLS sublayer for a particular MLT The SQE TEST ERROR message is defined in section 7 2 2 2 4 of ANSI IEEE 802 3 1985 and its generation is described in section 7 2 4 6 of the same document DeferredTransmiss A count of frames for which the first transmission attempt on a particular MLT is delayed because the medium is busy The count represented by an instance of this object does not include frames involved in collisions SingleCollFrames A count of successfully transmitted frames on a particular MLT for which transmission is inhibited by exactly one collision A frame that is counted by an instance of this object is also counted by the corresponding instance of either the ifOutUcastPkts ifOutMulticastPkts or ifOutBroadcastPkts and is not counted by the corresponding instance of the MultipleCollisionFrames object MultipleCollFrames A count of su
66. d YO qd EE EE ru QD VP S qM P S 100 Adding ports toa Multilink Trunk as 22850 pe RR ERR RR ew ein vedo 100 MIE EE fric Sta SI S ida le odd DR a X deep Adae cabida we ha does 101 MultiLink Trunk Ethernet error statistics ei ss ss cee eee eee 103 Chapter 5 Creating and managing VLANS ss 2 0 cece eee RR RR RR 107 VERE ep EE DR NEED De ee EE deh RD Ie EG De 107 Drei LADIES au sdbqu dg EES DRESS RA GORA odes e3544 4236 13949h9 3 4 108 RSA ea Si OE RE CO DEOR C ROC CR e Oen ER REOR o Res 108 Creating amp port baged VLAN iss Ee RES die N REEKS X at p RR CR AO tpa 109 Creating a protocol based VLAN iis EE ER eee eee eee ees 110 Creating a source address MAC based VLAN ie EE Ee se ee ee 112 Accepting tagged and untagged frames EE EE EE eee eae 114 inel EE OE EE EE im ee OE EE N Babe EE 115 Modifying and managing existing VLANS iss ss EE es se ee se ee ee 116 Chapter 6 Troubleshooting Device Manager ss kase RR RR RR RE RR RR RR ee 119 Essa EE N EE EE Ge eR ie a Se a eRe Hoh are ne 119 Ese eed TADS TAY uu os be Rer HSM CERBERUS DURE DORE TTR Qeon OP o eros 120 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 10 Contents Chapter 7 RMON EE OE EE EE AUR OE EE RR 123 Working with RMON information suse SERE mm RR SERE RON wie REOR E ARE a SR ees 123 ViGWW EEU od OE EE OR DS RENTS RE TERED AI 123 EIN PSUS OR AE ER T TT PM p 124 Creating a listo iss EER EE WEER debe i
67. disabled 33 editing 77 graphing 78 84 88 89 selecting 31 viewing 77 PortType field 100 Power Supply tab 62 Print button 36 product support 19 Properties dialog box 22 23 Hotswap Poll Interval field 23 If Traps Status Interval field 23 Status Poll Interval field 23 protocol based VLAN 110 Protocol based VLAN window 111 Protocolld field 109 117 publications hard copy 18 publications related 18 Q QuerierPort field 116 QueryInterval field 116 R Read Community field 25 Read Community SNMP 26 Read Community SNMP field 25 Read Write All access 26 ReasmFails field 72 ReasmMaxSize field 49 ReasmOKs field 72 ReasmReqds field 71 ReasmTimeout field 48 Reboot field 53 Rebustness field 116 Redirects field 73 75 Refresh Device Status button 28 Register for Traps field 24 related publications 18 Remote Monitoring See RMON Reset Changes button 36 Result field 65 Retry Count field 24 rising event 139 rising value RMON alarms 131 RisingEventIndex field 138 RisingThreshold field 138 RMON alarms characteristics 131 creating 133 deleting 137 inserting 135 events definition 139 history creating 126 definition 124 disabling 128 statistics 123 126 using HP OpenView with 143 RMON EtherStat tab 96 124 RMON Event tab 140 Rmon menu 28 S Sample Interval field 136 Sample Type field 136 138 209322 A Index 165 Security parameters General tab AuthCtlPartTime field 148 AuthSecu
68. dministratively assigned color code for the VLAN The value of this object is used by the VLAN Manager GUI tool to select a color when it draws this VLAN on the screen Type Indicates the type of VLAN byPort or byProtocolld Stgld Spanning tree group ID to which the VLAN belongs PortMembers Ports that are members of the VLAN ActiveMember Set of ports that are currently active in the VLAN Active ports include all static ports and any dynamic ports where the VLAN policy was met Protocolld Protocol for protocol based VLANS This value is taken from the Assigned Numbers RFC For port based VLANS none is the displayed value UserDefinedPid When rcVlanProtocolld is set to usrDefined 15 in a protocol based VLAN this field represents the 16 bit user defined protocol identifier SubnetAddr IP subnet address of the VLAN This is important only if rcVlanType is equal to bylpSubnet 2 For other VLANS set this value to 0 0 0 0 SubnetMask IP subnet mask of the VLAN This is important only if rcVlanType is equal to bylpSubnet 2 For other VLANS set this value to 0 0 0 0 Creating a port based VLAN To create a port based VLAN 1 From the Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN gt VLANs The VLAN dialog box opens Figure 49 2 Click Insert The Insert Basic dialog box for creating VLANS opens Figure 50 This dialog box opens with the Type field set to byPort Reference for the Business Policy Swi
69. e Xd d eed ax RE OE FOR ae 57 SPRF OE ER N cu 58 TERE s cho r ETT 59 Edduna Ho DRESS S iy eb eye EE Xeno EA x 60 acu e pio ET ERA N RD OE N OR SR Ee AN Ge Ee 61 Gub EE EE EE EE EE EE EE 62 Working with configuration files iss ss ccc eee ek ee ek ke ee ke 64 Ese Re IE as AE AA OOR OR OE OR AE EK 65 RE RR RE OE OE PE UE 66 EA ER RR TE LET OE EO EER EO ELE DE EL 69 Ed REEN TE ET EE LEO DE 72 CNP DUI AO EE OO EL Reb e 4 e d ap dd 74 Chapter 3 Configuring and graphing ports cece eee eee 77 Viewing and editing a single port configuration llle 77 itemiecg tab for a single PON ia seseque dea bo dea ER oe EES dr SERS ns 78 VLAM tab Tor a omole DEEL ous sede OES ER MR DERE RS ed EE ER OD eee PET P 80 STG tab Tot a single pori seus ERROR x ERE RE WE Xe DE RR WE HER RE N Rx 82 209322 A Contents 9 Graphing FN OES PC MEME 84 Interface tab Tor multiple BERE 4 2246 neon que ER GE HREM RR RA Roe eR Rr 84 VLAN tab for mul pie POMS usps SEU Ex DUE Eo e S SR GP wx Sec x 86 Graphing Port SUAUSUES P VETT 88 Interface tab for graphing poriS sisse ke esce GE REDE endeared 89 Ethernet Errors tab for graphing ports iss ss ee ss eee eee 91 Bridge tab ior graphing DONS kaa edd Ge PEER RES OT qud pq wie qae eR Kx p Re 94 RAMON da OE OE OR ED Oed S ROS 96 Chapter 4 Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports ses kaas sek RR Ra RR ER RR ERA Re 99 mE Trunk MLET EL OE RE TE EE ER OE NG 99 mang do LIS sane dod d i
70. e i bond 59 Table 23 Edit Chassis dialog box Trap Receivers tab items 60 Table 24 Power Supply tab fields llli 62 Table 25 Fantabiields osse Ed EERDER GER ee hs oe ES EES EE ER GEREAGEER 63 Table 26 FileSystem dialog box items isi ese ee RE SS Re eee ke 64 Table 27 SNMP Tab BIOS EERS donde ad moe ar p ele pedem Modes 67 Table 28 Chassis IP tab fields sie SE OESRER ESE DERE ERGER DE Ke RE 70 Table 29 ICMP In tabtields En AE RR Ep ba S OCCUR Ie CI Rx 73 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 16 Tables Table 30 Table 31 Table 32 Table 33 Table 34 Table 35 Table 36 Table 37 Table 38 Table 39 Table 40 Table 41 Table 42 Table 43 Table 44 Table 45 Table 46 Table 47 Table 48 Table 49 Table 50 Table 51 Table 52 Table 53 Table 54 Table 55 Table 56 Table 57 Table 58 Table 59 Table 60 pec ae mds eI PLC 75 Interface tab items for a single port se ss EE ER EE ER eee ke 79 VLAN tab items for a single port iss es ee se ek ee se 81 STG tab items Tor a single pOFE iussus daa xac RR N Ep RE ER RC 83 Interface tab fields for multiple ports EE EE EE SE Ee ee ke 85 VLAN tab fields for multiple ports iis ss 0 cece eee se 87 Port Interface tab fields for multiple ports sis ss Es RR Ese ee 90 Ethernet Errors tab fields si sea R RES KERKE ERK R akute uua 92 Budae Bb Hel x uerbo 9 NO ior bo d o bte ei ON eg EE hos 95 AMON TAD iil MR N
71. e reporting agent CurState The current state of the sender of the topology message The choices are topChanged Topology information has recently changed heartbeat Topology information is unchanged new The sending agent is in a new state Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 122 Troubleshooting Device Manager 209322 A 123 Chapter 7 RMON The Remote Network Monitoring RMON MIB is an interface between the RMON agent on a Business Policy Switch 2000 and an RMON management application such as the Device Manager It defines objects that are suitable for the management of any type of network but some groups are targeted for Ethernet networks in particular The RMON agent continuously collects statistics and proactively monitors switch performance You can view this data through the Device Manager RMON has three major functions e Creating and displaying alarms for user defined events e Gathering cumulative statistics for Ethernet interfaces e Tracking a history of statistics for Ethernet interfaces Working with RMON information You can view RMON information by looking at the Graph information associated with the port or chassis Viewing statistics Device Manager gathers Ethernet statistics that you can have graphed in a variety of formats or you can save them to a file and export the statistics to an outside presentation or graphing application
72. echnical support 19 Telnet button 29 45 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 166 Index Telnet session 28 29 45 tested port color 33 text conventions 17 Threshold Type field 136 TimeExcds field 73 75 Timeout field 24 TimestampReps field 73 75 Timestamps field 73 75 toolbar Device Manager 28 topology 119 Trace field 24 Transparent Bridging tab 95 traplog 45 Trap Log button 28 Trap Port field 24 Trap Receivers NetAddr field 60 Status field 60 Trap Receivers tab 59 troubleshooting locations of Help files 46 receiving traps 45 selecting switches in device view 31 TrpRevrCurEnt field 59 TrpRevrMaxEnt field 59 TrpRcvrNext field 59 Type 109 Type field 50 55 79 81 85 87 140 types of objects 30 U UndersizePkts field 97 UNIX receiving traps 45 unmanageable port color 33 UserDefined field 117 UserDefinedPid field 109 V ValidFlag tab 58 Value field 136 138 value changed 37 Variable field 136 137 Ver field 55 57 Viewing 77 VLAN 80 VLAN Basic tab 108 VLAN dialog box 109 116 VLAN menu 27 VLANtab 81 VLAN tab for multiple ports 86 Vlanlds field 81 87 VLANS creating 108 default 108 limitations 107 MAC SA based 112 managing 116 port based 108 protocol based 110 W window Device Manager 27 Write Community field 25 Write Community SNMP 25 26 209322 A
73. ed 4 Click the Ethernet Errors tab The Ethernet Errors tab opens Figure 48 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 104 Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports Figure 48 MLT Statics dialog box Ethernet Errors tab 10 10 40 26 Statistics MLT 3 AeA OL lo we eo 3 209322 A Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports 105 Table 42 describes the fields in the Ethernet Errors tab Table 42 Ethernet Errors tab fields Field Description AlignmentErrors A count of frames received on a particular MLT that are not an integral number of octets in length and do not pass the FCS check The count represented by an instance of this object is incremented when the alignmentError status is returned by the MAC service to the LLC or other MAC user Received frames for which multiple error conditions occur are according to the conventions of IEEE 802 3 Layer Management counted exclusively according to the error status presented to the LLC FCSErrors A count of frames received on an MLT that are an integral number of octets in length but do not pass the FCS check The count represented by an instance of this object is incremented when the frameCheckError status is returned by the MAC service to the LLC or other MAC user Received frames for which multiple error conditions occur are according to the conventions of IEEE 802 3 Layer Management counted exclusively according to the error
74. egotiation or not AdminDuplex The current administrative duplex mode of the port half or full AdminSpeed Set the port s speed OperSpeed The current operating speed of the port MItld The Multi Link Trunk to which the port is assigned if any VLAN tab for a single port The VLAN tab allows you to view the VLAN membership for a single port To view the VLAN tab Select the port you want to edit 2 Do one ofthe following e Double click the selected port e From the shortcut menu choose Edit e From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt Port e On the toolbar click Edit The Port dialog box for a single port opens Figure 36 with the Interface tab displayed 3 Click the VLAN tab The VLAN tab opens Figure 37 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 81 Figure 37 Edit Port dialog box VLAN tab Interface VLAN sto Type access C trunk Vlanids 1 DiscardTaggedFrames DiscardUntaggedFrames Defaultvlanld f 1 4094 App Rettesh E Heln Table 32 describes the VLAN tab items Table 32 VLAN tab items for a single port Item Description Type Indicates the type of VLAN port Trunk or Access port If the port is a trunk port the port is probably a member of more than one VLAN If the port is an access port the port can only be a member of one VLAN if there is no membership conflict Vlanlds The VLANIDs of which this port is a member
75. eld on the tab Interface tab for a single port The Interface tab shows the basic configuration and status of a single port To view the Interface tab 1 Select the port you want to edit 2 Do one ofthe following e Double click on the selected port e From the shortcut menu choose Edit e From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt Port Onthe toolbar click Edit button The Port dialog box for a single port opens Figure 36 with the Interface tab displayed Figure 36 Edit Port dialog box Interface tab 10 10 40 29 Port 2 1 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 79 Note 10 100BASE TX ports may not autonegotiate correctly with older 10 100BASE TX equipment In some cases the older devices can be upgraded with new firmware or driver revisions If an upgrade does not allow autonegotiation to correctly identify the link speed and duplex settings you can manually configure the settings for the link in question Check the Nortel Networks Web site support baynetworks com software for the latest compatibility information Table 31 describes the Interface tab items for a single port Table 31 Interface tab items for a single port Field Description Index A unique value assigned to each interface The value ranges between 12 and 255 Descr The type of switch and number of ports Type The media type of this interface Mtu The size of the largest packet in octets that can
76. er or that network conditions have corrupted an SNMP packet sent by the Device Manager The status would temporarily appear as under creation and then the status would become either valid or the field would be deleted 209322 A RMON 141 Creating an event To create an event 1 Inthe RMONAlarms dialog box Events tab click Insert The RMONAlarms Insert Events dialog box opens Figure 74 Figure 74 Insert Events dialog box 10 10 40 26 Rmon larms Insert Events x Index 0536 1 65535 Description frestt 23 Type C none C log snmp trap log and trap 2 Inthe Description field type a name for the event 3 Select the type of event you want The default setting is log and trap You can set the event type to log to save memory or to snmp trap to reduce traffic from the switch or for better CPU utilization If you select snmp trap or log and trap you must set trap receivers 4 Click Insert The new event is displayed in the Events tab Figure 75 Figure 75 New event in the Events tab 10 10 40 26 RmonAlarms Lx Alarms Events Log Index Description Type Community LastTimeSe Owner Status 60534 Rising Event log and trap public none jritter It corpwest baynetworks com valid 60536 Falling Event log and trap public Oh 22m 7s _jritter It corpwest baynetworks com valid 60536 Test123 log and trap none inserted Reference f
77. erStatsOversizePkts etherStatsFragments etherStatsCollisions Alarm variables are in three formats depending on the type e Achassis alarm ends in x where the x index is hard coded No further information is required e Acard spanning tree group STG or EtherStat alarm ends with a dot You must enter a card number STG ID IP address or EtherStat information e A port alarm ends with no dot or index and requires using the port shortcut menu An example of a port alarm would be ifInOctets interface incoming octet count For this example select Bridge gt dotldStpTopChanges 0 from the variable list A list of variable definitions is located in Appendix B RMON alarm variables This example is a chassis alarm indicated by the 0 in the variable 3 For this example select a rising value of 4 and a falling value of 0 4 Leave the remaining fields at their default values including a sample type of Delta Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 136 RMON 5 Click Insert If you want to make field changes see the field descriptions shown in Table 50 Table 50 RMON Insert Alarm dialog box fields Field Description Variable RMON Stats alarms port selection tool Name and type of alarm indicated by the format alarmname x where x 0 indicates a chassis alarm alarmname where the user must specify the index This will be a card number for
78. ers 157 Table 59 AuthStatus tab fields continued Item Description CurrentActionMode A value representing the type of information contained including noAction Port does not have any security assigned to it or the security feature is turned off partitionPort Port is partitioned partitionPortAndsendTrap Port is partitioned and traps are sent to the trap receive station Filtering Port filters out the frames where the destination address field is the MAC address of unauthorized station FilteringAndsendTrap Port filters out the frames where the destination address field is the MAC address of unauthorized station Trap are sent to trap receive station sendTrap A trap is sent to trap receive station s partitionPortAnddaFiltering Port is partitioned and will filter out the frames with the destination address field is the MAC address of unauthorized station partitionPortdaFilteringAndsendTrap Port is partitioned and will filter out the frames with the destination address field is the MAC address of unauthorized station Traps are sent to trap receive station s CurrentPortSecurStatus Displays the security status of the current port including Ifthe port is disabled notApplicable is returned If the port is in a normal state portSecure is returned e If the port is partitioned portPartition is returned AuthViolation tab The AuthViolation tab contains a list of boards
79. ess used ReasmMaxSize The size of the largest IP datagram that this entity can reassemble from incoming IP fragmented datagrams received on this interface ARP tab The Address Resolution Protocol ARP tab shows the MAC addresses and the associated IP addresses for the switch To open the ARP tab 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit IP The IP dialog box opens with the Globals tab displayed Figure 19 2 Click the ARP tab The ARP tab opens Figure 21 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 50 Configuring and graphing the switch Figure 21 Edit IP dialog box ARP tab 10 10 40 29 IP Ea Globals Addresses ARP MacAddress IpAddress 1 1 00 80 2d 39 f2 00 10 10 40 1 08 00 20 73 8a de 10 10 40 124 dynamic 00 00 81 01 16 81 10 10 40 151 00 00 81 c1 9b 81 10 10 40 152 00 e0 16 83 28 81 10 10 40 169 BEE 5 row s Table 17 describes the ARP tab items Table 17 ARP tab items Item Description Interface The device unit number MacAddress The unique hardware address of the device IpAddress The Internet Protocol address of the device used to represent a point of attachment in a TCP IP internetwork Type The type of mapping Editing the chassis configuration You can edit a chassis configuration from the Edit Chassis dialog box Figure 22 To open the Chassis dialog box 1 Select the chassis 2 Doone ofthe following e
80. essCtrIType SecureList 065535 Closel Help allowed Table 58 describes the Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box fields Table 58 Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box fields Item Description BrdIndx Index of the board This corresponds to the index of the slot containing the board but only if the index is greater than zero A zero index is a wild card Portlndx Index of the port on the board This corresponds to the index of the last manageable port on the board but only if the index is greater than zero A zero index is a wild card MACIndx An index of MAC addresses that are either designated as allowed station or not allowed station AccessCtrlType Displays whether the node entry is node allowed or node blocked A MAC address may be allowed on multiple ports SecureList The index of the security list This value is meaningful only if Brdindx and Portindx values are set to zero For other board and port index values it should also have the value of zero The corresponding MAC Address of this entry is allowed or blocked on all ports of that this port list 209322 A Security parameters 155 AuthStatus tab The AuthStatus tab displays information of the authorized boards and port status data collection Information includes actions to be performed when an unauthorized station is detected and the current security status of a p
81. grams field 71 FragCreates field 71 FragFails field 71 FragOKs field 71 frames discarding tagged frames on 114 FrameTooLongs field 93 106 G Globals tab 48 graph creating 43 modifying 44 Graph command 35 graph dialog box 44 Graph menu 27 Graph Selected button 28 43 graph types 39 graphPort Interface tab 89 H Help button 28 Help menu 28 Help Device Manager 46 Horizontal button 44 HP OpenView using with RMON 143 ICMP In tab 73 ICMP Out statistics 74 ICMP Out tab 74 ID field VLAN 112 ifInNUcastPkts field 90 ifInOctets field 90 ifInUcastPkts field 90 ifOutNUcastPkts field 90 ifOutOctets field 90 ifOutUcastPkts field 90 image file 64 ImageFileName field 64 ImageLoadMode field 53 InAddrErrors field 70 InASNParseErrs field 68 InBadCommunityNames field 68 InBadCommunityUses field 68 InBadValues field 68 InBadVersions field 68 InBroadcastPkt field 102 InDelivers field 71 Index field 79 85 136 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 162 Index InDiscards field 71 90 InErrors field 90 InGenErrs field 69 InGetNexts field 68 InGetRequests field 68 InGetResponses field 68 InHdrErrors field 70 InMulticastPkts field 102 InNoSuchNames field 68 Inpkts field 67 InReadOnlys field 69 InReceives field 70 Insert Alarm dialog box 134 Insert AuthConfig dialog box BrdIndx field 154 Insert button 36 Insert Control dialog box 127 Insert Ether Stats dialog box 129 I
82. gress e testing doing a self test e warning operating at warning level nonFatalErr operating at error level fatalErr error stopped operation The allowable and meaningful values are determined by the component type Ver The version number of the component or subcomponent If not available the value is a zero length string SerNum The serial number of the component or subcomponent If not available the value is a zero length string Agent tab The Agent tab provides read only information about the addresses that the agent software uses to identify the switch To open the Agent tab 1 Select the chassis 2 Fromthe shortcut menu choose Edit Chassis The Chassis dialog box opens Figure 22 with the System tab displayed 3 Click the Agent tab The Agent tab opens Figure 25 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 58 Configuring and graphing the switch Figure 25 Edit Chassis dialog box Agent tab System Base Unit into Stack Info Agent SNMP Trap Receivers PowerSupply Fan NextBootlpAddr NextBootNetMask LoadServerAddr ImageFileNa aeri BootRouterAdd MacAddr 10 10 40 29 255 255 2550 10 10 40 114 valid 0 0 0 0 00 80 2d 8c 1f df jeja 1 rows Table 21 describes the Agent tab fields Table 21 Agent tab fields Item Description NextBootpAddr The IP address of the BootP server to be used the next time the switch is booted
83. h e On the toolbar click Graph The Port dialog box for a single port Figure 36 or for multiple ports opens with the Interface tab displayed 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 95 3 Click the Bridge tab The Bridge tab for graphing ports opens Figure 43 Figure 43 Graph Port dialog box Bridge tab 10 10 40 29 graphPort 2 1 x Interface Ethernet Errors Bridge Rmon p ragerse Minimum sec Maximumisec LastValisec DelayExceededDiscards MtuExceededDiscards InFrames 757 m E 3 m OutFrames i 13 0 n InDiscards ERIT 21 0 724 Al Al a e e e ciose Help Poll Interval J10s Oh 0m 29s Table 38 describes the Bridge tab fields Table 38 Bridge tab fields Field Description DelayExceededDiscards Number of frames discarded by the port due to excessive transit delays through the bridge It is incremented by both transparent and source route bridges MtuExceededDiscards Number of frames discarded by the port due to an excessive size It is incremented by both transparent and source route bridges InFrames The number of frames that have been received by this port from its segment OutFrames The number of frames that have been received by this port from its segment InDiscards Count of valid frames received which were discarded filtered by the Forwarding Process Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 96 Co
84. h no indication note the possibility of overflow in any of the associated counters It is important to consider the minimum time in which any counter could overflow on a particular media type and set the historyControllnterval object to a value less than this interval This is typically most important for the octets counter in any media specific table For example on an Ethernet network the etherHistoryOctets counter could overflow in about one hour at the Ethernet s maximum utilization Owner The network management system that created this entry To disable RMON history on a port 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Control The RMONControl dialog box opens with the History tab displayed Figure 63 Highlight the row that contains the port ID you want to delete Click Delete The entry is removed from the table 209322 A RMON 129 Enabling Ethernet statistics gathering You can use RMON to gather Ethernet statistics To gather Ethernet statistics 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Control The RMONControl dialog box opens with the History tab displayed 2 Click the Ether Stats tab The Ether Stats tab opens Figure 65 Figure 65 RMONControl dialog box Ether Stats tab History Ether Stats El ia Refresh inser Delete im 28 row s 3 Click Insert The RMONControl Insert Ether Stats dialog box opens Figure
85. he event browser when the default category of Log only is selected However SNMP traps are not displayed in the event browser version 5 0 because this bug is fixed If you were not aware that version 4 0 had a problem then you may have erroneously assumed that the switch was not sending these traps In this case you can view the ASCII trap log file Enter var opt OV share log trapd log When you view the log you can verify that the switch is sending the traps In fact when both HP OpenView and Device Manager are running on a machine and that machine is configured on the switch as a trap receiver HP OpenView receives the trap HP OpenView then passes the trap to Device Manager If Device Manager displays a trap HP OpenView has also received the trap Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 146 RMON To have standard SNMP traps displayed in the event browser for HP OpenView 5 0 From the Options menu choose Event Configuration Select enterprise name snmpTraps Double click the event trap name you want A OO N Change the category from Log Only to any event type Your choices are Error Events Threshold Events normally used for RMON alarms Status Events Configuration Events or Application Alert Events Click OK Choose File Save 209322 A 147 Chapter 8 Security parameters You can set the security features for a switch so that the actions are performed by
86. hich it is running If the DNS lookup is slow or fails the initial Device Manager window may take up to 30 seconds to open Figure 1 Device Manager window Device Manager OE x Device Help gei emo eu NORTEL NETWORKS Unified Networks Setting the Device Manager properties Device Manager communicates with the Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 using Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP The software is shipped with default values set for important communication parameters such as the polling interval timeout and retry count You may want to set the parameters before you open a device to manage To set the Device Manager properties 1 Choose Device gt Properties The Properties dialog box opens Figure 2 209322 A Device Manager basics 23 Figure 2 Device Manager Properties dialog box Device Manager 4 0 0 b30 Properties Ea Polling Status Interval E secs If Traps Status Interval feo secs Hotswap Detect every 1 intervals v Enable SNMP Max Traps in Log 500 Retry Count Jo 0 5 Timeout F 3 30 secs Trace v Register for Traps Trap Port fi 62 I Confirm row deletion 1 10000 Close 2 Type information and select check boxes 3 Click OK Table 1 describes the Properties dialog box items Table1 Properties dialog box items Area Item Description Polling Status Interval Interval at which s
87. ialog box fields Field Description SecurityListlndx An index of the security list This corresponds to the Security port list that can be used as an index into AuthConfig tab SecurityListMembers The set of ports that are currently members in the Port list AuthConfig tab The AuthConfig tab contains a list of boards ports and MAC addresses that have the security configuration An SNMP SET PDU for a row in the tab requires the entire sequence of the MIB objects in each entry to be stored in one PDU Otherwise GENERR return value is returned Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 152 Security parameters To view the AuthConfig tab 1 From the Device Manager menu bar select Edit gt Security The Security window opens with the General tab displayed Figure 77 2 Click the AuthConfig tab The AuthConfig tab opens Figure 80 Figure 80 AuthConfig tab 10 10 40 29 Security Retesn ser oe D El cise ve 209322 A Security parameters 153 Table 57 describes the AuthConfig tab fields Table 57 AuthConfig tab fields Field Description BrdIndx Index of the slot containing the board on where the port is located This value is meaningful only if SecureList value is zero For other SecureList values this parameter should have the value of zero Portlndx Index of the port on the board This value is meaningful only if SecureLis
88. identified by a particular value of this index is the same as identified by the same value of the event index object Generally accept the default that is already filled in To view the RMON statistics and history for the port for which you have created an alarm 1 Select the port on which you have created an alarm 2 From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Control The RMONControl dialog box opens displaying the History tab Figure 63 209322 A RMON 137 3 Click the Ether Stats tab to view statistics Figure 61 on page 124 The RMONAlarms dialog box opens with the Alarms tab Figure 72 displayed To delete an alarm 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Alarms The RMONAlarms dialog box opens with the Alarms tab Figure 72 displayed Figure 72 RMONAlarms dialog box Alarms tab Alarms Events Log Index Intervall Variable SampleType Valuel StartupAlarm RisingThreshold RisingEventIndex FallingThreshold FallingEventIndex Owner Status Reftesh EA B amp l Close Help D rowis 2 Click any field for the alarm that you want to delete to highlight it 3 Click Delete Table 51 describes the fields on the Alarms tab Table 51 Alarms tab fields Field Description Index Uniquely identifies an entry in the alarm table Each such entry defines a diagnostic sample at a particular interval for an object on the device Interval The interval in seconds
89. ield is the MAC address of unauthorized Station daFilteringAndsendTrap Port filters out the frames where the desitnation address field is the MAC address of unauthorized station Traps are sent to trap receive station s partitionPortAnddaFiltering Port is partitioned and will filter out the frames with the destination address field is the MAC address of unauthorized station partitionPortdaFilteringAndsendTrap Port is partitioned and will filter out the frames with the destination address field is the MAC address of unauthorized station Traps are sent to trap receive station s Note da means destination address CurrNodesAllowed Current number of entries of the nodes allowed in the AuthConfig tab MaxNodesAllowed Maximum number of entries of the nodes allowed in the AuthConfig tab PortLearnStatus Set of ports where auto learning is enabled CurrSecurityLists Current number of entries of the Security listed in the SecurityList tab MaxSecurityLists Maximum entries of the Security listed in the SecurityList tab Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 150 Security parameters SecurityList tab The SecurityList tab contains a list of Security port items To view the Security List tab 1 From the Device Manager menu bar select Edit gt Security The Security window opens with the General tab displayed Figure 77 2 Click the SecurityList tab
90. if the media has been damaged as a result of accident misuse or abuse The Licensee assumes all responsibility for selection of the Software to achieve Licensee s intended results and for the installation use and results obtained from the Software Nortel Networks does not warrant a that the functions contained in the software will meet the Licensee s requirements b that the Software will operate in the hardware or software combinations that the Licensee may select c that the operation of the Software will be uninterrupted or error free or d that all defects in the operation of the Software will be corrected Nortel Networks is not obligated to remedy any Software defect that cannot be reproduced with the latest Software release These warranties do not apply to the Software if it has been i altered except by Nortel Networks or in accordance with its instructions ii used in conjunction with another vendor s product resulting in the defect or iii damaged by improper environment abuse misuse accident or negligence THE FOREGOING WARRANTIES AND LIMITATIONS ARE EXCLUSIVE REMEDIES AND ARE IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE Licensee is responsible for the security of its own data and information and for maintaining adequate procedures apart from the Softwa
91. ile to a device The new config file will not take effect until the next boot cycle of the device Possible values are dnldimg download an image to a device upldConfig upload a config file to a server from a device The config file contains the current MIB object values of the device upldlmg upload an image from a device to a server Result This object is used to get the status of the latest action as shown by sbAglnfoFileAction The values that can be read are other if no action taken since the boot up inProgress the operation is in progress Success the operation succeeds fail the operation failed Graphing chassis statistics To graph chassis statistics 1 Select the chassis 2 Doone ofthe following e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e From Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Chassis e On the toolbar click Graph Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 66 Configuring and graphing the switch The following sections describe the Graph Chassis dialog box tabs with descriptions of the statistics on each tab Six columns provide the statistics for the counters that are listed on the tab For descriptions of the chassis IP statistics refer to Table 12 on page 38 SNMP tab The chassis SNMP tab lists chassis statistics For descriptions of the type of statistics shown in each column refer to Table 27 To open the SNMP t
92. interface for which transmission is inhibited by more than one collision A frame that is counted by an instance of this object is also counted by the corresponding instance of either the ifOutUcastPkts ifOutMulticastPkts or ifOutBroadcastPkts and is not counted by the corresponding instance of the SingleCollisionFrames object LateCollisions The number of times that a collision is detected on a particular interface later than 512 bit times into the transmission of a packet Five hundred and twelve bit times corresponds to 51 2 microseconds on a 10 Mb s system A late collision included in a count represented by an instance of this object is also considered as a generic collision for purposes of other collision related statistics ExcessiveCollisions A count of frames for which transmission on a particular interface fails due to excessive collisions Poll Interval Statistics are updated based on the poll interval Default 10s Range None 2s 5s 10s 30s 1m 5m 30m 1h Bridge tab for graphing ports The Bridge tab displays port frame statistics To open the Bridge tab for graphing 1 Select the port or ports you want to graph To select multiple ports Ctrl left click the ports that you want to configure A yellow outline appears around the selected ports 2 Do one ofthe following e From the Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Port e From the shortcut menu choose Grap
93. ions on this Ethernet segment Jabbers The total number of packets received that were longer than 1518 octets excluding framing bits but including FCS octets and had either a bad Frame Check Sequence FCS with an integral number of octets FCS Error or a bad FCS with a non integral number of octets Alignment Error Jabber is defined as the condition where any packet exceeds 20 ms The allowed range to detect jabber is between 20 ms and 150 ms Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 98 Configuring and graphing ports Table 39 RMON tab fields continued Field Description lt 64 The total number of packets including bad packets received that were less than or equal to 64 octets in length excluding framing bits but including FCS octets gt 64 The total number of packets including bad packets received that were greater than 64 octets in length excluding framing bits but including FCS octets gt 127 The total number of packets including bad packets received that were greater than 127 octets in length excluding framing bits but including FCS octets gt 255 The total number of packets including bad packets received that were greater than 255 octets in length excluding framing bits but including FCSoctets gt 511 The total number of packets including bad packets received that were greater than 511 octets in length excluding framing bits but includi
94. is object if it is not counted by the corresponding instance of either the LateCollisions object the ExcessiveCollisions object or the CarrierSenseErrors object 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 93 Table 37 Ethernet Errors tab fields continued Field Description InternalMacReceiveErrors A count of frames for which reception on a particular interface fails due to an internal MAC sublayer receive error A frame is only counted by an instance of this object if it is not counted by the corresponding instance of either the FrameTooLongs object the AlignmentErrors object or the FCSErrors object The precise meaning of the count represented by an instance of this object is implementation specific In particular an instance of this object may represent a count of receive errors on a particular interface that are not otherwise counted CarrierSenseErrors The number of times that the carrier sense condition was lost or never asserted when attempting to transmit a frame on a particular interface The count represented by an instance of this object is incremented at most once per transmission attempt even if the carrier sense condition fluctuates during a transmission attempt FrameTooLongs A count of frames received on a particular interface that exceed the maximum permitted frame size The count represented by an instance of this object is incremented when the frameTooLong status is returned b
95. larms fire Rising value 9 N BY 7 QTY O Y O O YU ww wA Falling value iv Alarm fires O No firing 7821EA It is important to note that the alarm fires during the first interval that the sample goes out of range No additional events are generated for that threshold until the opposite threshold is crossed Therefore it is important to carefully define the rising and falling threshold values for alarms to work as expected Otherwise incorrect thresholds causes an alarm to fire at every alarm interval A general guideline is to define one of the threshold values to an expected baseline value and then define the opposite threshold as the out of bounds limit Because of sample averaging the value may be equal to 41 of the baseline units For example assume an alarm is defined on octets going out of a port as the variable The intent of the alarm is to provide notification to the system administrator when excessive traffic occurs on that port If spanning tree is enabled then 52 octets are transmitted out of the port every 2 seconds which is equivalent to baseline traffic of 260 octets every 10 seconds This alarm should provide the notification the system administrator needs if the lower limit of octets going out is defined at 260 and the upper limit is defined at 320 or at any value greater than 260 52 312 The first time outbound traffic other than spanning tree Bridge Protocol Data Units BPDUS occurs the rising alarm fi
96. log box opens Figure 22 with the System tab displayed 3 Click the Fan tab The Fan tab opens Figure 30 Figure 30 Edit Chassis dialog box Fan tab 10 10 40 26 Chassis x System Base Unit Info Agent SNMP Trap Receivers PowerSupply Fan Chassis 1 Fan 1 normal Chassis 1 Fan 2 normal Chassis 1 Fan 3 normal Chassis 1 Fan 4 removed Refresh Close Help Table 25 describes the Fan tab fields Table 25 Fan tab fields Field Description Desc The fan type OperStat The operational state of the fan Values include other Some other state e notAvail This state is not available removed Fan was removed disabled Fan is disabled normal Fan is operating in normal operation resetlnProg A reset of the fan is in progress testing Fan is doing a self test warning Fan is operating at a warning level nonFatalErr Fan is operating at error level e fatalErr An error stopped the fan operation e notConfig Fan needs to be configured The allowable values are determined by the component type Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 64 Configuring and graphing the switch Working with configuration files You can view information and upload or download the configuration and image files from the Edit FileSystem dialog box To open the Edit FileSystem dialog box m From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit g
97. logy information 1 From the Device Manager menu bar choose Edit gt Diagnostics The Diagnostics dialog box opens with the Topology tab displayed Figure 59 2 Click the Topology Table tab The Topology Table tab opens Figure 60 Figure 60 Diagnostics dialog box Topology Table tab 10 10 40 29 Diagnostics Topology Topology Table summ IpAddr Segld MacAddr ChassisType BkplType LocalSeg CurState 0 010 10 40 29 0 00 80 2d 8c 1f de BPS2000 enerastoEnet true heartbeat 2 1 10 10 40 235 524 00 60 fd 9e 2b 6b BPS2000 other true 2 row s son a see 209322 A Troubleshooting Device Manager 121 Table 47 describes the Topology Table tab fields Table 47 Topology Table tab fields Field Description Slot The slot number in the chassis in which the topology message was received Port The port on which the topology message was received IpAddr The IP address of the sender of the topology message Segld The segment identifier of the segment from which the remote agent sent the topology message This value is extracted from the message MacAddr The MAC address of the sender of the topology message ChassisType The chassis type of the device that sent the topology message BkplType The backplane type of the device that sent the topology message LocalSeg Indicates if the sender of the topology message is on the same Ethernet segment as th
98. n about traps and trap receivers refer to Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 Online Help Online Help in Device Manager is context sensitive You use a Web browser to display online Help The Web browser should launch automatically when you click the Help button If the Help topic you are accessing is not displayed in your browser exit the existing browser session and click the Help button again If for some reason the Web browser does not launch the default locations of the Help files are the directories listed in Table 14 Table 14 Help file locations Platform Default path Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows NT c DM help dm dm htm UNIX DM UNIX DM help 209322 A 47 Chapter 2 Configuring and graphing the switch The first three sections of this chapter describe how you can use Device Manager to configure your switch The last section describes how to use Device Manager to graph switch statistics Viewing switch IP information You can view the switch IP information using the IP dialog box To open the IP dialog box m From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt IP The Edit IP dialog box opens Figure 19 with the Globals tab displayed Globals tab To open the Globals tab m From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit IP The IP dialog box opens Figure 19 with the Globals tab displayed Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 48 Co
99. n for discarding such a packet could be to free up buffer space OutDiscards The number of outbound packets which were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had been detected to prevent their being transmitted One possible reason for discarding such a packet could be to free up buffer space InErrors For packet oriented interfaces the number of inbound packets that contained errors preventing them from being deliverable to a higher layer protocol For character oriented or fixed length interfaces the number of inbound transmission units that contained errors preventing them from being deliverable to a higher layer protocol 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 91 Table 36 Port Interface tab fields for multiple ports continued Field Description OutErrors For packet oriented interfaces the number of outbound packets that could not be transmitted because of errors For character oriented or fixed length interfaces the number of outbound transmission units that could not be transmitted because of errors InUnknownProtos For packet oriented interfaces the number of packets received via the interface that were discarded because of an unknown or unsupported protocol For character oriented or fixed length interfaces that support protocol multiplexing the number of transmission units received via the interface that were discarded because of an unknown or unsupported protocol Fo
100. n to change the value from the ignore values ignore Note do not use this entry to send traps to at this time delete deletes the row create creates a new row This is the only value that can be used to create a row in the table If the row exists then a SET with value of create shows error badValue Deleted rows are removed immediately The following values can be returned on reads other some other case valid the row exists and is valid ignore Note do not use this entry to send traps to at this time Editing network traps To edit the network traps table 1 In the Trap Receivers tab Figure 27 click Insert The Chassis Insert Trap Receive dialog box opens Figure 28 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 61 Figure 28 Chassis Insert Trap Receive dialog box 10 10 40 29 Chassis Insert Trap Receivers x Indz 1 12255 NetAddr fi 34 177 25 72 Community public Closel Help 2 Type the Index NetAddr and the Community information Note Refer to Table 23 for description of the Chassis Insert Trap Receivers dialog box items 3 Click Insert Power Supply tab The Power Supply tab provides read only information about the operating status of the switch power supplies To open the PowerSupply tab 1 Select the chassis 2 From the shortcut menu choose Edit gt Chassis The Chassis dialog box opens Figure 22 with the System tab displayed
101. nager is launched against a device Max Traps in Log The specified number of traps that may exist in the trap log The default is 500 Trap Port Specifies the UDP port that Device Manager will listen on to receive SNMP traps Confirm row deletion A dialog box displays when checked before deleting a row Opening a device Opening a device displays the device view a picture of the device To open the device view you must enter community strings that determine the access level granted to the device Table 2 shows the default access community strings for the Device Manager software Table 2 SNMP community string default values Access level Description Read only public Read write private Read write all secret 209322 A Device Manager basics 25 To display the device view 1 Doone ofthe following e Choose Device gt Open e Choose Device gt Open Last and select an IP address from the list Click the folder icon in the Device Manager window Press Ctrl O The Open Device dialog box opens Figure 3 Figure 3 Open Device dialog box Device Name Read Community Write Community Fetes Ping Close Table 3 describes the Open Device dialog box fields Table 3 Open Device dialog box fields Field Description Device Name Either an IP address or a DNS name for the device entered by
102. name optional If no name is entered the protocol name becomes the default VLAN name 6 In the Color text box type in the color 7 Inthe StgID text box type in spanning tree group ID stgid 8 Inthe Type field click byProtocolID if not already selected 9 Specify the port membership by clicking the ellipsis field 10 Specify Static Members by clicking the ellipsis field 11 Specify by NotAllowToJoin by clicking the ellipsis field 12 In the ProtocolID field select one protocol radio button 13 Click Insert Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 112 Creating and managing VLANs Creating a source address MAC based VLAN To create a source address MAC based VLAN 1 From the Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN gt VLANs The VLAN dialog box opens Figure 49 2 Click Insert The VLAN Insert Basic dialog box opens Figure 52 This dialog box opens with the Type field set to by poPort 3 Change the Type field to bySrcMac The dialog box changes to display additional fields needed to set up source MAC based VLANS Figure 52 Figure 52 VLAN Insert Basic dialog box for a source MAC based VLAN MF 1 4094 Name NLAN 5 Color 5 0 31 Stald 1 4 Type FonMerivers StaticMembers un C foetal C Up 2 S agal Gmer Lej cire pter t Protacalld EP SrekthemetZ Cine vines Weretned tarp UServennedrid J H TEX Close en 4
103. ner Status 80534 Rising Event log and trap public none jritter ILcorpwest baynetworks com valid 60536 Falling Event log and trap public h 4m 20s _jritter It corpwest baynetworks com 2 row s Table 52 describes the RMONAlarms Events tab fields Table 52 Events tab fields Field Description Index This index uniquely identifies an entry in the event table Each entry defines one event that is to be generated when the appropriate conditions occur Description Specifies whether the event is a rising or falling event Type The type of notification that the Device Manager provides about this event In the case of log an entry is made in the log table for each event In the case of trap an SNMP trap is sent to one or more management stations Possible notifications follow none log trap log and trap Community The SNMP community string acts as a password Only those management applications with this community string can view the alarms LastTimeSent The value of sysUpTime at the time this event entry last generated an event If this entry has not generated any events this value is zero Owner If traps are specified to be sent to the owner then this is the name of the machine that will receive alarm traps Status Normally valid A not valid field indicates that an SNMP agent other than the Device Manager has tried to modify an RMON paramet
104. ness Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 100 Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports Setting up MLTs To set up MLTs m Fromthe Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN MLT The MLT dialog box opens Figure 45 Figure 45 MLT dialog box Id PortType Name Par Members Vianids Enable 1 access Trunk 1 1 1 1 2 1 true 2 access Trunk 2 false 3 access Trunk 3 false 4 access Trunks4 frase 5laccess Trunk 5 false Blaccess false Graph BRI Refresh t il Bl l Close B rows The active MultiLink Trunks are displayed with the fields described in Table 40 Table 40 MLT dialog box fields Field Description ID The number of the MLT assigned consecutively Name The name given to the MLT PortType Access or trunk port PortMembers The ports that are assigned to the MLT Adding ports to a MultiLink Trunk To add ports to an existing MLT 1 From the Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN gt MLT The MLT dialog box opens 2 Double click the PortMembers field The PortMembers dialog box opens Figure 46 209322 A Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports 101 Figure 46 PortMembers dialog box Id PortType Name PortMemb 4 Vlanids pee 1j access Trunk 1 1 1 1 2 1 true 2 actess faise 3 access false 5 access Trunkst5 c o Trunks mAsa a 10 13 12 1 44 vs 46 17 18 18 20 21 22 23 24 Graph
105. nfiguring and graphing ports RMON tab The RMON tab displays Ethernet statistics for graphing a port or ports To open the RMON tab for graphing 1 Select the port or ports you want to graph To select multiple ports Ctrl left click the ports that you want to configure A yellow outline appears around the selected ports Do one of the following e From the Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Port e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e On the toolbar click Graph The Port dialog box for a single port Figure 36 or for multiple ports opens with the Interface tab displayed Click the RMON tab The RMON tab for graphing ports opens Figure 44 Figure 44 Graph Port dialog box RMON tab 10 10 40 29 graphPort 2 1 Ee ooren romea Toa 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 97 Table 39 describes the RMON tab fields Table 39 RMON tab fields Field Description Octets The total number of octets of data including those in bad packets received on the network excluding framing bits but including FCS octets You can use this object as a reasonable estimate of Ethernet utilization For greater precision sample the etherStatsPkts and etherStatsOctets objects before and after a common interval Pkts The total number of packets including bad packets broadcast packets and multicast packets received BroadcastPkts The total number of good packets received that were di
106. nfiguring and graphing the switch Figure 19 Globals tab 10 10 40 29 IP Ea Globals Addresses ARP DefaultTTL 64 ReasmTimeout 60 Refresh Closel Help Table 15 describes the Globals tab items Table 15 Globals tab items Item and MIB e Im Description association DefaultTTL Default value inserted into the Time To Live field of the IP header of datagrams originated at this entity whenever a TTL value is not supplied by the transport layer protocol Default value is 16 ReasmTimeout Maximum number of seconds that received fragments are held while they are awaiting reassembly at this entity Default value is 5 Addresses tab The Addresses tab shows the IP address information for the device To open the Addresses tab 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt IP The IP dialog box opens with the Globals tab displayed Figure 19 2 Click the Addresses tab The Addresses tab opens Figure 20 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 49 Figure 20 Edit IP dialog box IP Address tab Globals Addresses ARP Addr NetMask BcastAddr ReasmMaxSize 10 10 40 29 255 255 255 0 1 65535 Reftesh D B Close Hein 1 rows Table 16 describes the IP Address tab items Table 16 IP Addresses tab items Item Description Addr The device IP address NetMask The subnet mask address BcastAddr The IP broadcast addr
107. ng FCS octets gt 1023 The total number of packets including bad packets received that were greater than 1023 octets in length excluding framing bits but including FCS octets 209322 A 99 Chapter 4 Setting up MultiLink Trunk ports MultiLink Trunking MLT is a point to point connection that aggregates multiple ports so that they logically act like a single port with the aggregated bandwidth Grouping multiple ports into a logical link allows you to achieve higher aggregate throughput on a switch to switch or switch to server application MultiLink Trunking provides media and module redundancy MultiLink Trunk MLT features A number of Nortel Networks products implement MultiLink Trunking and have different features and requirements based on the architecture of the device For the Business Policy Switch 2000 MultiLink Trunking has the following general features and requirements e A unit can have up to six MultiLink Trunks MLTs e Upto four ports can belong to an MLT e The ports in an MLT can be on different unit in the stack e MultiLink Trunking is supported on IOBASE T 100BASE TX 100BASE FX and Gigabit Ethernet ports e MultiLink Trunking is compatible with the Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802 1Q tagging is supported on an MLT e For bridge traffic the algorithm that distributes traffic across an MLT is based on the source and destination MAC addresses Reference for the Busi
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109. nsert Event dialog box 141 InSetRequests field 68 Interface item ARP 50 Interface tab 78 Interface tab for a multiple port 84 Interface window 102 InternalMacReceiveErrors field 93 105 InternalMacTransmitErrors field 92 105 Interval field 128 137 InTooBigs field 68 InTotalReag Vars field 67 InTotalSetVars field 67 InUnknownProtos field 71 91 IP Address tab 49 IP dialog box 47 IP tab 70 IPAddress field 50 J Jabbers field 97 L LastChange field 80 86 LastLoadProtocol field 53 LastTimeSent field 140 LastUnauthenticatedCommunityString field 59 LastUnauthenticatedIpAddress field 59 LastValue statistics 38 LateCollisions field 94 106 LEDs 33 LEDs in device view 33 legend port color 28 33 Line Chart button 44 link lacking color 33 LoadServerAddr field 64 LocalStorageImageVersion field 53 Location field 55 56 Log Scale button 44 Log tab 142 logs 142 LstChng field 55 56 MacAddr field 58 MacAddress field 50 MAC SA based VLAN 112 Max Traps in Log field 24 Maximum statistics 38 MDA shortcut menu 36 viewing 31 media dependent adapter See MDA menu bar Device Manager 27 209322 A Index 163 menus See individual menu names Minimum statistics 38 MLT requirements 99 MltId field 80 86 MRouterExpiration field 116 MRouterPorts field 116 Mtu field 79 85 MulticastPkts field 97 Multi Link Trunk window 101 Multi Link Trunking See MLT Multi Link Trunks window 100 mul
110. nt TimeExcds The number of ICMP Time Exceeded messages sent Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 76 Configuring and graphing the switch 209322 A 77 Chapter 3 Configuring and graphing ports This chapter describes how you use Device Manager to configure and graph ports on a Business Policy Switch 2000 The windows displayed when you configure a single port differ from the ones displayed when you configure multiple ports However the options are similar Viewing and editing a single port configuration To view or edit the configuration of a single port double click on the port To view or edit the configuration of a single or multiple ports Select the port or ports you want to edit 2 Do one of the following From the shortcut menu choose Edit From the Device Manager main menu choose Edit gt Port Double click on the selected port On the toolbar click Edit Note When you edit a single port tabs that are not applicable are not available for you to select When you edit multiple ports some tabs are not available and some tabs are available even though the options are not applicable When the option does not apply for a given port NoSuchObject is displayed Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 78 Configuring and graphing ports The following sections provide a description of the tabs in the Edit Port dialog box and details about each fi
111. nt The maximum number of trap receiver entries TrpRevrCurEnt The current number of trap receiver entries TrpRevrNext The next trap receiver entry to be created Trap Receivers tab The Trap Receivers tab lists the devices that will receive SNMP traps from the Business Policy Switch 2000 switch When Device Manager opens a device it automatically adds the device to the Trap Receivers list To open the Trap Receivers tab 1 Select the chassis 2 From the shortcut menu choose Edit gt Chassis The Chassis dialog box opens Figure 22 with the System tab displayed Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 60 Configuring and graphing the switch 3 Click the Trap Receivers tab The Trap Receivers tab opens Figure 27 Figure 27 Edit Chassis dialog box Trap Receivers tab 10 10 40 26 Chassis xd System Base UnitInfo Agent SNMP Trap Receivers PowerSupply Fan Indx NetAddr Community 0 rows Table 23 describes the Trap Receivers tab items Table 23 Edit Chassis dialog box Trap Receivers tab items Item Description NetAddr The address or DNS hostname for the trap receiver Community Community string used for trap messages to this trap receiver Status This object is used to create and delete rows in the table and control them if they are used The values that can be written are valid makes an existing row valid can only be writte
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113. ntEntry identified by a particular value of this index is the same as identified by the same value of the eventIndex object If there is no corresponding entry in the eventTable then no association exists In particular if this value is zero no associated event is generated because zero is not a valid event index FallingThreshold A threshold for the sampled statistic When the current sampled value is less than or equal to this threshold and the value at the last sampling interval was greater than this threshold a single event is generated A single event is also generated if the first sample after this entry becomes valid is less than or equal to this threshold and the associated alarmStartupAlarm is equal to fallingAlarm 2 or risingOrFallingAlarm 3 After a falling event is generated another such event is not generated until the sampled value rises above this threshold and reaches the alarmRisingThreshold FallingEventlndex The index of the eventEntry that is used when a falling threshold is crossed The eventEntry identified by a particular value of this index is the same as identified by the same value of the eventIndex object If there is no corresponding entry in the eventTable then no association exists In particular if this value is zero no associated event is generated because zero is not a valid event index 209322 A RMON 139 Table 51 Alarms tab fields continued Field
114. nu commands Command Description Edit Opens a read only dialog box that provides basic hardware information about the switch Graph Opens a dialog box that displays statistics for the switch and allows you to display the statistics as a graph The port shortcut menu provides a faster path for editing and graphing a single port however you can access the same options using the menu bar or the toolbar Figure 10 Port shortcut menu Port 1 10 Edit Graph Enable Disable Table 10 describes the commands on the port shortcut menu Table 10 Port shortcut menu commands Command Descriptions Edit Opens a dialog box that allows you to set operating parameters for the port Graph Opens a dialog box that displays statistics for the port and allows you to display the statistics as a graph Enable Administratively brings a port up Disable Administratively shuts down a port The color of the port changes to red in the device view Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 36 Device Manager basics The MDA shortcut menu contains a single command Edit that opens a read only dialog box with basic hardware information about the MDA Figure 11 MDA shortcut menu Uplink Module 25 26 2728 ppp vo 110 Edit Status bar The status bar displays error and informational messages from the software application These messages are not related to
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117. od This is the value that is compared with the rising and falling thresholds The value during the current sampling period is not made available until the period is completed and remains available until the next period completes StartupAlarm The alarm that may be sent when this entry is first set to valid If the first sample after this entry becomes valid is greater than or equal to the risingThreshold and alarmStartupAlarm is equal to risingAlarm 1 or risingOrFallingAlarm 3 then a single rising alarm is generated If the first sample after this entry becomes valid is less than or equal to the fallingThreshold and alarmStartupAlarm is equal to fallingAlarm 2 or risingOrFallingAlarm 3 then a single falling alarm is generated RisingThreshold A threshold for the sampled statistic When the current sampled value is greater than or equal to this threshold and the value at the last sampling interval was less than this threshold a single event is generated A single event is also generated if the first sample after this entry becomes valid is greater than or equal to this threshold and the associated alarmStartupAlarm is equal to risingAlarm 1 or risingOrFallingAlarm 3 After a rising event is generated another such event is not generated until the sampled value falls below this threshold and reaches the alarmFallingThreshold RisingEventlndex The index of the eventEntry that is used when a rising threshold is crossed The eve
118. og box opens with the System tab displayed Figure 22 3 Click the Stack Info tab The Stack Info tab opens Figure 24 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 56 Configuring and graphing the switch Figure 24 Edit Chassis dialog box Stack Info tab 10 10 40 29 Chassis System Base UnitInfo Stack Info Agent SNMP Trap Receivers PowerSupply Fan BaseTX plus 1 MDA slot and 1 Cascade Slot BaseTX plus 1 MDA slot and 1 Cascade Slot Location LstChng AdminState OperState Ver SerNum Oh 0m 30s enable normal Business Policy Switch 2000 HW PEDOO18669 Oh 0m 30s enable normal Business Policy Switch 2000 HW PED0021510 jeesaa 2 row s Table 20 describes the Stack Info tab fields Table 20 Stack Info tab fields Field Description Descr A description of the component or subcomponent If not available the value is a zero length string Location The geographic location of a component in a system modeled as a chassis but possibly physically implemented with geographically separate devices connected together to exchange managment information Chassis modeled in this manner are sometimes referred to as virtual chassis An example value is 4th flr wiring closet in blg A Notes 1 This object is applicable only to components that can be found in either the Board or Unit groups If the information is unavailable for example the
119. on SS 0 eat a ee es r Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 90 Configuring and graphing ports Table 36 describes the Interface tab fields for graphing ports Table 36 Port Interface tab fields for multiple ports Field Description iflnOctets The total number of octets received on the interface including framing characters ifOutOctets The total number of octets transmitted out of the interface including framing characters iflnUcastPkts The number of packets delivered by this sublayer to a higher sublayer that were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sublayer ifOutUcastPkts The number of packets that higher level protocols requested be transmitted that were not addressed to a multicast address at this sublayer This total number includes those packets discarded or unsent iflnNUcastPkts The number of packets delivered by this sublayer to a higher sub layer which were addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sublayer ifOutNUcastPkts The total number of packets that higher level protocols requested be transmitted and which were addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sublayer including those that were discarded or not sent InDiscards The number of inbound packets that were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had been detected to prevent their being deliverable to a higher layer protocol One possible reaso
120. onfiguring and graphing the switch ICMP Out tab The chassis ICMP Out shows ICMP Out statistics To open the ICMP Out tab 1 Select the chassis 2 Doone ofthe following e From Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Chassis e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e On the toolbar click Graph The Chassis dialog box opens Figure 32 with the SNMP tab displayed 3 Click the ICMP Out tab The ICMP Out tab opens Figure 35 Figure 35 Graph Chassis dialog box ICMP Out tab 10 10 40 29 Chassis 5 2 Ga S cese He hos sj 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 75 Table 30 describes the ICMP Out tab fields Table 30 ICMP Out tab fields Field Description SrcQuenchs The number of ICMP Source Quench messages sent Redirects The number of ICMP Redirect messages received For a host this object will always be zero because hosts do not send redirects Echos The number of ICMP Echo request messages sent EchoReps The number of ICMP Echo Reply messages sent Timestamps The number of ICMP Timestamp request messages sent TimestampReps The number of ICMP Timestamp Reply messages sent AddrMasks The number of ICMP Address Mask Request messages sent AddrMaskReps The number of ICMP Address Mask Reply messages sent ParmProbs The number of ICMP Parameter Problem messages sent DestUnreachs The number of ICMP Destination Unreachable messages se
121. oot The unique Bridge Identifier of the bridge recorded as the Root in the Configuration BPDUs transmitted by the Designated Bridge for the segment to which the port is attached DesignatedCost The path cost of the Designated Port of the segment connected to this port This value is compared to the Root Path Cost field in received bridge PDUs DesignatedBridge The Bridge Identifier of the bridge that this port considers to be the Designated Bridge for this port s segment DesignatedPort The Port Identifier of the port on the Designated Bridge for this port s segment ForwardTransitions The number of times this port has transitioned from the Learning state to the Forwarding state Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 84 Configuring and graphing ports Graphing multiple ports You can graph port statistics from the graph port dialog box To open the graph port dialog box 1 Select the port or ports you want to graph 2 Do one ofthe following e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e From the Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Port e On the toolbar click Graph ad The following sections discuss the graph port statistics tabs with descriptions of the statistics Note Some statistics are only available when you graph a single port gt Interface tab for multiple ports The Interface tab shows the basic configuration and status of the selected ports
122. or the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 142 RMON Deleting an event To delete an event 1 In the Events tab highlight an event Description 2 Click Delete The event is removed from the table Log information The Log tab chronicles and describes the alarm activity which is then generated to viewed To view the Log tab 1 From the Device Manager main menu choose RMON Alarms The RMONAlarm dialog box opens with the Alarms tab displayed Figure 72 on page 137 2 Click the Log tab The Log tab opens Figure 76 Figure 76 Log tab 10 10 40 236 RmonAlarms E3 Alarms Events Log 1 day Oh 42m 20s Falling Event 22h 48m 20s Falling Event e s ta corn 3 row s 209322 A RMON 143 Table 53 describes the Log tab fields Table 53 Log tab fields Item Description Time An implementation dependent description of the event that activated the log entry Description Specifies whether the event is a rising or falling event HP OpenView You can integrate RMON into HP OpenView To do so you must set the HP OpenView path to include the UNIX environment variable The path is set in the cshrc file To see the path 1 Enter setenv grep PATH A path is displayed similar to this PATH usr local xemacs bin sparc sun solaris2 4 bin sbin usr sbin usr ccs bin usr dt bin usr openwin bin usr etc usr ucb usr local bin usr local share li
123. ort An entries in this tab may include e Asingle MAC address e All MAC addresses on a single port Asingle port e All the ports on a single board e A particular port on all the boards e All the ports on all the boards To view the AuthStatus tab 1 From the Device Manager menu bar select Edit Security The Security window opens with the General tab displayed Figure 77 2 Click the AuthStatus tab The AuthStatus tab opens Figure 82 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 156 Security parameters Figure 82 AuthStatus tab 10 10 40 29 Security AuthStatusBrdindx AuthStatusP ortindh AuthStatusMACIndx CurrentAccessCtriType CurrentActionMade CurrentPortSecurStat Table 59 describes the AuthStatus tab fields Table 59 AuthStatus tab fields Item Description AuthStatusBrdIndx The index of the board This corresponds to the index of the slot containing the board if the index is greater than zero AuthStatusPortIndx The index of the port on the board This corresponds to the index of the last manageable port on the board if the index is greater than zero AuthStatusMACIndx The index of MAC address on the port This corresponds to the index of the MAC address on the port if the index is greater than zero CurrentAccessCtrlType Displays whether the node entry is node allowed ornode blocked type 209322 A Security paramet
124. ou can graph statistics for either a single port or multiple ports from the graphPort dialog box The windows displayed are identical for either single or multiple port configuration To open the graphPort dialog box for graphing 1 Select the port or ports you want to graph To select multiple ports Ctrl left click the ports that you want to configure A yellow outline appears around the selected ports Do one of the following e From the Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Port e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e On the toolbar click Graph The graphPort dialog box for a single port Figure 36 or for multiple ports opens with the Interface tab displayed 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 89 Interface tab for graphing ports The Interface tab shows interface parameters for graphing a port or ports To open the Interface tab for graphing 1 Select the port or ports you want to graph To select multiple ports Ctrl left click the ports that you want to configure A yellow outline appears around the selected ports Do one of the following e From the Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Port e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e On the toolbar click Graph The Port dialog box for a single port Figure 41 or for multiple ports opens with the Interface tab displayed Figure 41 Interface tab for graphing ports 10 10 40 29 graphPort pemetemors Bridge Rm
125. out going through other dialog boxes Help Opens online Help topics for Device Manager and provides a legend for the port colors in the device view Toolbar The toolbar contains buttons that provide quick access to commonly used commands and some additional actions Graphical representation of the switch Table5 Toolbar buttons object Button Name Description Menu bar equivalent Open Opens the Open Device dialog Device gt Open Device box Refresh Refreshes the device view Device gt Refresh Status Device information Status 3 Trap Log Opens the trap log Device Trap Log Help Opens online Help in a Web Help gt Device browser Edit Displays configuration data for Edit gt Unit Selected the selected chassis object Edit gt Chassis Edit Port Graph Opens statistics and graphing Graph Chassis Selected dialog boxes for the selected Graph Port 209322 A Device Manager basics 29 Table 5 Toolbar buttons continued Button Name Description Menu bar equivalent Telnet Opens a Telnet session Actions Telnet Manager Manager Alarm Opens the Rmon Alarm Rmon Alarm Manager Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 30 Device Manager basics Device view The device view allows you to determine at a glance the operating status of the various units and ports in your hard
126. peed field 80 86 AdminState field 56 AdminStatus field 79 85 Agent Info tab 58 Alarm Manager button 29 alarms tab 137 alarms RMON characteristics of 131 creating 133 AlignmentErrors field 92 105 Area Chart button 44 area graph example 39 ARP tab 50 AuthConfig tab AccessCtrlType field 153 BrdIndx field 153 MACIndx field 153 PortIndx field 153 SecureList field 153 AuthenticationTraps field 53 AuthStatus tab AuthStatusBrdIndx field 156 AuthStatusMACIndx field 156 AuthStatusPortIndx field 156 CurrentAccessCtrlType field 156 CurrentActionMode field 157 CurrentPortSecurStatus field 157 AuthViolation tab BrdIndx field 158 MACIndx field 158 PortIndx field 158 AutoNegotiate field 80 86 Average statistics 38 B Bar Chart button 44 BcastAddr field 49 blinking LEDs 33 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 160 Index BootMode field 53 BootRouterAddr tab 58 Bridge tab 94 BroadcastPkts field 97 buckets 124 BucketsGranted field 127 BucketsRequested field 127 buttons dialog boxes 36 toolbar 28 C CarrierSenseErrors field 93 105 chassis configuration editing 50 graphing 65 Chassis ICMP In statistics window 72 Chassis ICMP Out statistics tab 74 Chassis SNMP tab 67 Collisions field 97 Color field 109 color coded ports 32 33 communication parameters setting for Device Manager 22 Community field 60 140 community strings default 24 entering 25 ConfigFileName field 64 configu
127. r any interface that does not support protocol multiplexing this counter will always be 0 Ethernet Errors tab for graphing ports The port Ethernet Errors tab shows port Ethernet Errors statistics To open the Ethernet Errors tab for graphing 1 Select the port or ports you want to graph To select multiple ports Ctrl left click the ports that you want to configure A yellow outline appears around the selected ports Do one of the following e From the Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Port e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e On the toolbar click Graph The Port dialog box for a single port Figure 36 or for multiple ports opens with the Interface tab displayed Click the Ethernet Errors tab The Port Ethernet Errors tab opens Figure 42 Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 92 Configuring and graphing ports Figure 42 Graph Port dialog box Port Ethernet Errors tab Interface Ethernet Errors Bridge Rmon Port 2 25 Port 2 26 Port 2 27 Port 2 28 Port 2 1 AlignmentErrors FCSErrors InternalMacTransmitErrors InternalMacReceiveErrors CarrierSenseErrors FrameTooLongs SGETestErrors DeferredTransmissions SingleCollisionFrames MultipleCollisionFrames LateCollisions ExcessiveCollisions oejejoejejoejojojojojojojo oejejejejojojojojojojojo oejejojejojojojojojojojo o ejojejejoejojojoejejeie eoO
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129. ration downloading 64 MAC SA based VLAN 112 Multi Link Trunks 100 port based VLAN 108 109 115 ports 119 protocol based VLAN 110 Confirm row deletion field 24 Control tab 126 conventions text 17 Copy button 36 Copy File tab 64 CRAlignErrors field 97 Cumulative statistics 38 CurrentDefaultGateway field 53 CurrentImage Version field 53 CurrentMgmtProtocol field 53 customer support 19 D data exporting 42 default access community strings 24 Default TTL field 48 DefaultVLANId field 81 88 DeferredTransmissions field 93 106 Descr field 55 56 62 63 79 85 Description field 140 DestUnreachs field 73 75 Device Manager setting properties 22 Device Manager window 21 22 Device menu 27 Device Name field 25 device view summary 30 device opening 25 Disable command 35 disabled port color 33 DiscardTagged Frames field 81 87 DiscardUntaggedFrames field 81 88 E EchoReps field 73 75 Echos field 73 75 209322 A Index 161 Edit command 35 Edit menu 27 Edit Selected button 28 Enable 116 Enable command 35 Enable field 23 Ether Stats Control tab 129 Ethernet Errors tab 92 Ethernet statistics disabling 130 Event Index field 136 events RMON 139 ExcessiveCollisions field 94 106 Export Data button 37 42 F falling event 139 falling value RMON alarms 131 FallingEventIndex field 138 FallingThreshold field 138 Fan tab 63 FCSErrors field 92 105 File System window 64 ForwData
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131. rected to the broadcast address Note that this does not include multicast packets MulticastPkts The total number of good packets received that were directed to a multicast address Note that this number does not include packets directed to the broadcast address CRCAlignErrors The total number of packets received that had a length excluding framing bits but including FCS octets of between 64 and 1518 octets inclusive but had either a bad Frame Check Sequence FCS with an integral number of octets FCS Error or a bad FCS with a nonintegral number of octets Alignment Error UndersizePkts The total number of packets received that were less than 64 octets long excluding framing bits but including FCS octets and were otherwise well formed OversizePkts The total number of packets received that were longer than 1518 octets excluding framing bits but including FCS octets and were otherwise well formed Fragments The total number of packets received that were less than 64 octets in length excluding framing bits but including FCS octets and had either a bad Frame Check Sequence FCS with an integral number of octets FCS Error or a bad FCS with a nonintegral number of octets Alignment Error It is entirely normal for etherStatsFragments to increment because it counts both runts which are normal occurrences due to collisions and noise hits Collisions The best estimate of the total number of collis
132. res When outbound traffic other than spanning tree ceases the falling alarm fires This process provides the system administrator with time intervals of any nonbaseline outbound traffic If the alarm is defined with a falling threshold less than 260 assuming the alarm polling interval is 10 seconds say 250 then the rising alarm can fire only once Figure 69 The reason is that for the rising alarm to fire a second time the falling alarm the opposite threshold must fire Unless the port becomes inactive or 209322 A RMON 133 spanning tree is disabled which would cause the value for outbound octets to drop to zero the falling alarm cannot fire because the baseline traffic is always greater than the value of the falling threshold By definition the failure of the falling alarm to fire prevents the rising alarm from firing a second time Figure 69 Alarm example threshold less than 260 Rising threshold 326 320 4 i CLA Baseline traffic 260 Falling threshold 250 bd bed v x nd 7822EA Creating alarms When you create an alarm you select a variable from the variable list and a port or other switch component to which it is connected Some variables require port IDs card IDs or other indices for example spanning tree group IDs You then select a rising and a falling threshold value The rising and falling values are compared against the actual value of the variable that you choose If the varia
133. rid RE RE QR Es cxx e Cee RR Ex 126 As ed GE RA EO IE EUR EO oo Roe vedo IT abe 128 Enabling Ethernet statistics gathering is ss ss se es se eee 129 Disabling Ethernet statistics gathering ies ES ES ee eee eee 130 BEIDE iis se al a fay BORD ah Ae mh DDR ha d donis aub ba de DR RR le DR BE ded ee Ge d 131 HOS RMON GAMS MOO hah he eh eben ME SE PER DON ME ind reed 131 BEE EA RT 133 Alarm Manager example OE EE XP d 134 EVO ou cela OR EI EO EE 139 How evento WOK i uad ee eee eRe OR ERE ee Raed 139 VONNE EE RA OR ME ali OT EO RE NE 139 NEE UR EXE aude qq P rV qu IIR M Dad v dx OE di eb 141 Me Sr Sr BUB Labb ved Xd XR SCR ode COOL oe HSE E ee rac 142 Lip ATO RUE apenas ate ER DO Nad iat CR dede db den mca e EE EE OE 142 alie EC ee ERE EE EE EE 143 Le Ven DU OR N EE RD EE ORE CR 145 Chapter 8 becurity DaEgmelal os ones see SEE DR GE ki N Sees eeu ED Suede cane 147 Ed EE EE EE wel eee EE EG OR Re RR a 147 O LIS TAS prr 150 Security Insert SecurityList dialog DOX iieccicarkavarioaatavecadoaiws 150 rupis Rou TET 151 Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box EE cee eee SE ke ee ee 153 Tu EN de EE EE EE EE 155 PII C ET 157 Li CEPI 159 209322 A 11 Figures Figure 1 Device Manager window i s EE EE cece EE ER ee SE Re ee ke 22 Figure 2 Device Manager Properties dialog box EE EE EE Ee de ke 22 Figure3 Open Device dialog box i s ke EE Re EE eee ER Re ee Re 25 Figure 4 RE AE
134. rityLock field 148 CurrNodesAllowed field 149 CurrSecurityLists field 149 MaxNodesAllowed field 149 MaxSecurityLists field 149 PortLearnStatus field 149 SecurityAction field 149 SecurityMode field 148 SecurityStatus field 148 Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box AccessCtrlType field 154 MACIndx field 154 PortIndx field 154 SecureList field 154 SerNum field 55 57 shortcut menus MDA 36 port 35 switch unit 34 single object selecting 30 SingleCollisionFrames field 93 106 SNMP Info tab 59 SNMP tab 58 SNMP traps 45 Snoop tab 115 spanning tree group ID field 113 Spanning Tree window 82 Speed field 86 SOETestErrors field 93 106 SrcQuenchs field 73 75 Stack Info tab 56 Stacked button 44 Standalone Unit Info Tab 54 standby port color 33 StartupAlarm field 138 statistics Ethernet statistics enabling 129 for a single object 41 for multiple objects 42 graphing 38 ICMP Out 74 MLT 101 RMON 123 126 single port 41 types 38 statistics dialog box multiple objects 42 statistics dialog boxes 27 Status field 120 139 140 STG 82 Steld field 109 117 Stop button 37 SubnetAddr field 109 SubnetMask field 109 support Nortel Networks 19 switch stack selecting 31 switch unit shortcut menu 34 switch selecting 30 sysContact field 52 sysDescr field 52 sysLocation field 52 sysName field 52 System tab 52 sysUpTime field 52 T tagged frame discarding 114 tagged ports configuring 114 technical publications 18 t
135. rows 10 10 40 29 Port 2 1 x Interface VLAN STG Stold Priority State Enablestp FastStart PathCost DesignatedRoot DesignatedCost DesignatedBridge 4 2 ree n s en n 209322 A Configuring and graphing ports 83 Table 33 describes the STG tab items Table 33 STG tab items for a single port Item Description Stgld The number of times this port has transitioned from the Learning state to the Forwarding state Priority The value of the priority field that is contained in the first in network byte order octet of the 2 octet long Port ID The other octet of the Port ID is derived from the value of dotidStpPort State The port s current state as defined by application of the Spanning Tree Protocol This state controls the action a port takes when it receives a frame If the bridge detects a port that is malfunctioning it places that port into the broken state For ports that are disabled see EnableStp this object has a value of disabled EnableStp Allows you to select true or false to enable or disable STP FastStart Allows you to select true or false to enable or disable FastStart PathCost The contribution of this port to the cost of paths toward the spanning tree root which include this port The IEEE 802 1D 1990 standard recommends that the default value of this parameter be in inverse proportion to the speed of the attached LAN DesignatedR
136. ry is removed from the table Alarms are useful when you need to know when the values of a variable go out of range You can define an RMON alarm for any MIB variable that resolves to an integer value You cannot use string variables such as system description as alarm variables All alarms share the following characteristics e An upper and lower threshold value is defined e A corresponding rising and falling event occurs e An alarm interval or polling period is reached When alarms are activated you can view the activity in a log or a trap log or you can create a script to notify you by beeping a console sending e mail or calling a pager RMON alarms work The alarm variable is polled and the result is compared against upper and lower limit values you select when you create the alarm If either limit is reached or crossed during the polling period then the alarm fires and generates an event that you can view in the event log or the trap log The alarm s upper limit is called the rising value and its lower limit is called the falling value RMON periodically samples the data based upon the alarm interval During the first interval that the data passes above the rising value the alarm fires as a rising event During the first interval that the data drops below the falling value the alarm fires as a falling event Figure 68 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 132 RMON Figure 68 How a
137. s or switches in the stack Ctrl click on the objects Note In a switch stack that contains Business Policy Switches and BayStack switches you can select only one type of switch at a time To select all the ports in a standalone switch or in a switch stack Choose Edit gt Select gt Ports To select all the units switches and MDAs but not ports Choose Edit gt Select gt Units To select an entire stack Choose Edit gt Select gt Chassis Viewing information about an MDA To view information about an MDA 1 Select the MDA 2 Choose Edit gt Unit The Edit gt Unit dialog box opens for the MDA The Edit gt Unit dialog box describes the MDA installed in the switch Figure 7 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 32 Device Manager basics Figure 7 MDA dialog box Type 668 Descr 24 10 100BaseTx plus 1 MDA slot and 1 Cascade Slot Ver Business Policy Switch 2000 HY SerNum PEDO0021510 Refresh Close Help Table 7 describes the MDA dialog box fields MDA dialog box Table 6 MDA dialog box fields Field Description Type Type of component or subcomponent installed in the Business Policy Switch 2000 Descr Description of the component or subcomponent installed in the Business Policy Switch 2000 If not available the value is a zero length string Media dependent adapters and port conventions The conventions on
138. s accepted and processed by the SNMP protocol InGetResponses The total number of SNMP Get Response PDUs accepted and processed by the SNMP protocol OutTraps The total number of SNMP Trap PDUs generated by the SNMP protocol OutTooBigs The total number of SNMP PDUs generated by the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is tooBig OutNoSuchNames The total number of SNMP PDUs generated by the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is noSuchName OutBadValues The total number of SNMP PDUs generated by the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is badValue OutGenErrs The total number of SNMP PDUs generated by the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is genErr InBadVersions The total number of SNMP messages delivered to the SNMP protocol for an unsupported SNMP version InBadCommunityNames The total number of SNMP messages delivered to the SNMP protocol that used an unknown SNMP community name InBadCommunityUses The total number of SNMP messages delivered to the SNMP protocol that represented an SNMP operation not allowed by the SNMP community named in the message InASNParseErrs The total number of ASN 1 or BER errors encountered by the SNMP protocol when decoding received SNMP messages InTooBigs The total number of SNMP PDUS delivered to the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is tooBig InNoS
139. t File System The FileSystem dialog box opens Figure 31 Update only one item at a time Click Apply after each change Figure 31 Edit FileSystem dialog box LoadServerAddr fo1040114 ConfigileName jnomejiwallisiangel eg ImageFileName Action other C dnldConfig C dnidimg C upldConfig C upldimg Status other Ep Rettesh Close Help Table 26 describes the FileSystem dialog box items Table 26 FileSystem dialog box items Item Description LoadServerAddr The IP address of the load server for the configuration file and or the image file If not used then the value is 0 0 0 0 ConfigFileName Name of the configuration file currently associated with the interface When not used the value is a zero length string ImageFileName Name of the image file s currently associated with the interface When the object is not used the value is a zero length string 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 65 Table 26 FileSystem dialog box items continued Item Description Action This object is used to download or upload a config file or an image file In read operation if there is no action taken since the boot up it will return with a value of other Otherwise it will return the latest action such as dnldConfig dnidimg upldConfig upldlmg In awrite operation the value that can be written is dnldConfig download a config f
140. t value is zero For other SecureList values this parameter should have the value of zero MACIndx An index of MAC addresses that are either designated as allowed station or not allowed station AccessCtrlType Displays whether the node entry is node allowed or node blocked A MAC address may be allowed on multiple ports SecureList The index of the security list This value is meaningful only if Brdindx and Portindx values are set to zero For other board and port index values it should also have the value of zero The corresponding MAC Address of this entry is allowed or blocked on all ports of that this port list Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box has editable fields for the AuthConfig tab Each row in this dialog box has information that can be updated or changed To view the Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box 1 From the Device Manager menu bar select Edit Security The Security window opens with the General tab displayed 2 Click the AuthConfig tab The AuthConfig tab opens Figure 80 Click inside a row Click Insert The Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box opens Figure 81 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 154 Security parameters Figure 81 Security Insert AuthConfig dialog box 10 10 40 236 Security Ins E3 Brdindx D 65535 Portindx D 65535 MACIndx Acc
141. tatus information is gathered default is 300 seconds For a full stack set this interval to 60 seconds If Traps Status Interval Interval at which statistics and status information are gathered when traps are enabled The default is 300 Hotswap Poll Interval The interval at which Device Manager polls for module information The default is 60 seconds Enable Enables true or disables false periodic polling of the device for updated status If polling is disabled the chassis status is updated only when you click Refresh on the Chassis tab Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 24 Device Manager basics Table1 Properties dialog box items continued Area Item Description SNMP Retry Count Number of times Device Manager sends the same polling request if a response is not returned to Device Manager You may want to set this field to three or four Timeout Length of each retry of each polling waiting period When you access the device through a slow link you may want to increase the timeout interval and then change the Retransmission Strategy to superlinear Trace The trace field is used to enable and disable SNMP tracing When Trace is selected SNMP protocol data units PDUs are displayed in the Device Log dialog box Register for Traps When selected enabled automatically registers to received traps when Device Ma
142. tch 2000 Management Software 110 Creating and managing VLANs Figure 50 VLAN Insert Basic dialog box for a port based VLANs 10 10 40 29 VLAN Insert Basic Type the VLAN ID The value can be from 1 to 4094 as long as it is not already in use The default VLAN has a VID 1 Type the VLAN name optional If no name is entered a default name is created In the Type field click byPort if not already selected Specify the port membership by clicking the PortMembers buttons Click Insert Creating a protocol based VLAN To create a protocol based VLAN 1 From the Device Manager menu bar choose VLAN gt VLANs The VLAN dialog box opens Figure 49 Click Insert The Insert Basic dialog box for creating VLANs opens Figure 50 209322 A Creating and managing VLANs 111 3 Change the Type field to byProtocolID The dialog box changes to display additional fields needed to set up protocol based VLANS Figure 51 Figure 51 VLAN Insert Basic dialog box for a protocol based VLAN wo 1 4094 Name fVLAN S S Color 5 Dis Stald fr 1 1 Type C byPort byProtocolid C bySreMac FEGRETTIBETS 1H StaticMembers C ip C ipx802dot3 ipx802dot2 C ipxSnap C ipxEthernet2 appleTalk NT C decLat C decOther C snaB02dot2 C snaEthemet2 C netBios C xns C vines C ipve C usrDefined C ram UServennedrid J HEX IE Close en Type the unique VLAN ID A 5 Type the VLAN
143. ted as locked the agent refuses all requests to modify the security configuration Entries also include Other notlocked AuthCtlPartTime This value indicates the duration of the time for port partitioning in seconds Default 0 zero When the value is zero port remains partitioned until it is manually re enabled SecurityStatus Indicates whether or not the switch security feature is enabled SecurityMode Mode of switch security Entries include macList Indicates that the switch is in the MAC list mode You can configure more than one MAC address per port e autoLearn Indicates that the switch learns the first MAC address on each port as an allowed address of that port 209322 A Security parameters 149 Table 54 General tab items continued Items Description SecurityAction Actions performed by the software when a violation occurs when SecurityStatus is enabled The security action specified here applies to all ports of the switch A blocked address causes the port to be partitioned when unauthorized access is attempted Selections include e noAction Port does not have any security assigned to it or the security feature is turned off trap Listed trap e partitionPort Port is partitioned partitionPortAndsendTrap Port is partitioned and traps are sent to the trap receive station e daFiltering Port filters out the frames where the destination address f
144. the port list or type the port number Set the number of buckets The default is 50 5 Set the interval The default is 1800 seconds 6 Type the owner the network management system that created this entry 7 Click Insert Table 48 History tab fields Field Description Index A unique value assigned to each interface An index identifies an entry in a table Port Any Ethernet interface on the device BucketsRequested The requested number of discrete time intervals over which data is to be saved in the part of the media specific table associated with this entry BucketsGranted The number of discrete sampling intervals over which data is saved in the part of the media specific table associated with this entry There are instances when the actual number of buckets associated with this entry is less than the value of this object In this case at the end of each sampling interval a new bucket is added to the media specific table Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 128 RMON Disabling history Table 48 History tab fields continued Field Description Interval The interval in seconds over which the data is sampled for each bucket in the part of the media specific table associated with this entry You can set this interval to any number of seconds between 1 and 3600 1 hour Because the counters in a bucket may overflow at their maximum value wit
145. the software when a violation occurs The security actions you specify are applied to all ports of the switch This chapter describes the Security information available in Device Manager on the following tabs e General tab next e AuthConfig tab page 151 e SecurityList tab page 155 e AuthStatus tab page 155 e AuthViolation page 157 General tab The General tab allows you to set and view general security information for the switch To view the General tab m From the Device Manager menu bar select Edit gt Security The Security dialog box opens with the General tab displayed Figure 77 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 148 Security parameters Figure 77 General tab General SecurityList AuthConfig AuthStatus AuthViolation AuthSecurityLock notlocked AuthCtlPartTime jo 0 65535 v SecurityStatus SecurityMode macList C autoLearn noAction C trap C partitionPort SecurityAction C partitionPort ndsendTrap C daFiltering C daFilteringAndsendTrap C partitionPort amp nddaFiltering C partitionPortdaFilteringAndsendTrap CurrNodesAllowed 21 MaxNodesAllowed 448 PortSecurityStatus H PortLearnStatus H CurrSecurityLists 1 MaxSecurityLists 32 Zu Refresh Close Help Table 54 describes the General tab items Table 54 General tab items Items Description AuthSecurityLock If this parameter is lis
146. tiple objects selecting 31 MultipleCollisionFrames field 94 106 N Name field 100 109 116 NetMask field 49 new table entry creating 36 NextBootDefaultGateway field 53 NextBootLoadProtocol field 53 NextBootMgmtProtocol field 53 NextBootNetMask field 58 NextBootpAddr field 58 NmmCurNum field 120 NmmLstChg field 120 NmmMaxNum field 120 NoSuchObject error message 77 O object types 30 objects editing 37 selecting 30 Octets field 97 online Help 28 46 Open Device button 25 28 Open Device dialog box 25 27 operating port color 33 OperSpeed field 80 86 OperState field 55 57 62 63 OperStatus field 79 86 OutBadValues field 68 OutBroadcast field 102 OutDiscards field 71 90 OutErrors field 91 OutGenErrs field 68 OutMulticast field 102 OutNoRoutes field 71 OutNoSuchNames field 68 Outpkts field 67 OutRequests field 71 OutTooBigs field 68 OutTraps field 68 OversizePkts field 97 Owner field 128 130 139 140 P ParmProbs field 73 75 Paste button 36 PhysAddress field 79 85 Pkts field 97 Poll 94 polling interval 42 port colorlegend 33 Port dialog box 88 port Ethernet Error Statistics tab 91 Portfield 81 130 Port Interface tab 78 85 port shortcut menu 35 Port Spanning Tree window 82 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 164 Index port based VLANs 108 PortMembers field 100 109 117 ports color coded 32 33 configuring 77 119 controlling 77
147. uchNames The total number of SNMP PDUS delivered to the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is noSuchName InBadValues The total number of SNMP PDUS delivered to the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is badValue 209322 A Configuring and graphing the switch 69 Table 27 SNMP tab fields continued Field Description InReadOnlys The total number of SNMP PDUS delivered to the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is readOnly It is a protocol error to generate an SNMP PDU containing the value readOnly in the error status field This object is provided to detect incorrect implementations of the SNMP InGenErrs The total number of SNMP PDUs delivered to the SNMP protocol for which the value of the error status field is genErr IP tab The IP tab shows IP information for the chassis To open the IP tab Select the chassis 2 Doone ofthe following e From Device Manager main menu choose Graph gt Chassis e From the shortcut menu choose Graph e On the toolbar click Graph The Chassis dialog box opens Figure 32 with the SNMP tab displayed 3 Click the IP tab The IP tab opens Figure 33 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 70 Configuring and graphing the switch Figure 33 Graph Chassis dialog box IP tab 10 10 40 29 graphChassis Hewem iwe on o His e
148. unters were reset A system reboot resets all counters Cumulative The total count since the statistics window was first opened The elapsed time for the cumulative counter is displayed at the bottom of the graph window Average The cumulative count divided by the cumulative elapsed time Minimum The minimum average for the counter for a given polling interval over the cumulative elapsed time Maximum The maximum average for the counter for a given polling interval over the cumulative elapsed time LastValue The average for the counter over the last polling interval 209322 A Device Manager basics 39 Types of graphs With Device Manager you can create line area bar and pie graphs Figure 12 Figure 13 Figure 14 and Figure 15 illustrate the different graph styles respectively Figure 12 Line graph Z 10 10 40 26 Port 1 1 Interface InOctets olx aid I ose 214391000 LE HH 10 45 50 10 45 55 10 46 00 10 46 05 Absolutevalue Figure 13 Area graph Z 10 10 40 29 graphPort Interface OutOctets of x 0 15 09 19 15 09 21 15 09 23 15 09 25 15 09 27 15 09 29 15 09 31 15 09 33 E Port 1 24 Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 40 Device Manager basics Figure 14 Bar graph Z4 10 10 40 26 Port 1 1 Interface AbsoluteValue oOo xj E inOctets T OutOctets E InucastPkts OutUcastPkts E InN
149. urrently accessing To Telnet to a switch 9 Do one of the following e From the Device Manager main menu choose Actions gt Telnet Onthe toolbar click the Telnet button A Telnet window to the switch opens Trap log You can configure a Business Policy Switch to send SNMP generic traps When Device Manager is running any traps received are recorded in the trap log You set the maximum number of entries in the trap log using the Properties window Figure 2 The default number of trap log entries is 500 To view the trap log Do one of the following e On the toolbar click the Trap Log button e From the Device Manager Main Menu choose Device gt Trap Log Note When you operate Device Manager from a UNIX platform you must be logged in as root in order to receive traps Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software 46 Device Manager basics Device Manager receives traps on port 162 If this port is being used by another application you will not be able to view the trap log until the other application is disabled and Device Manager is restarted By default traps are sent in SNMP V2c format However if you are using an older network management system NMS one that supports only SNMP V1 traps HP OpenView you can specify that the traps be sent in V1 format Management stations operating with Device Manager are automatically added to trap receivers For more informatio
150. ware configuration You also use the device view to perform management tasks on specific objects Selecting objects The types of objects contained in the device view are A standalone switch called a unit in the menus and dialog boxes A switch stack called a chassis in the menus and dialog boxes A media dependent adapter MDA called a unit in the menus and dialog boxes A port Figure 6 Objects in the device view Switch unit or chassis object Port object MDA object Device Manager 4 1 0 b01 10 10 40 29 Device Edit Graph VLAN Rmon Actions Help samo snl sie Comm Port PORTE aks ED Business Policy Switch 2000 7 19 2 23 a ft Ce Ie ty RED Am totus Act ET b AE A A AE di d b AE di A AE dE ee DO eiii D Business Policy Switch 2000 1 3 5 EJ LU 13 6 UT 19 Fi 23 Uplink Module ER p pu AA AAI Casq1 35794 WERE dede 4 4 dd sd et 2 4 6 810121416 18202224 RPSU 10H00 Act Selecting a single object To select a single object Click the edge of the object The object is outlined in yellow indicating that it is selected Subsequent activities in Device Manager refer to the selected object 209322 A Device Manager basics 31 Selecting multiple objects To select multiple objects of the same type such as ports or switches of the same type Do one of the following e Fora block of contiguous ports drag to select the group of ports e For multiple ports MDA
151. y the MAC service to the LLC or other MAC user Received frames for which multiple error conditions occur are according to the conventions of IEEE 802 3 Layer Management counted exclusively according to the error status presented to the LLC SQETestErrors A count of times that the SQE TEST ERROR message is generated by the PLS sublayer for a particular interface The SQE TEST ERROR message is defined in section 7 2 2 2 4 of ANSI IEEE 802 3 1985 and its generation is described in section 7 2 4 6 of the same document DeferredTransmissions A count of frames for which the first transmission attempt on a particular interface is delayed because the medium is busy The count represented by an instance of this object does not include frames involved in collisions SingleCollisionFrames A count of successfully transmitted frames on a particular interface for which transmission is inhibited by exactly one collision A frame that is counted by an instance of this object is also counted by the corresponding instance of either the ifOutUcastPkts ifOutMulticastPkts or ifOutBroadcastPkts and is not counted by the corresponding instance of the MultipleCollisionFrames object Using the Business Policy Switch 2000 94 Configuring and graphing ports Table 37 Ethernet Errors tab fields continued Field Description MultipleCollisionFrames A count of successfully transmitted frames on a particular

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