36 Rapier Switch User Guide
Software Release 2.6.1
C613-02025-00 REV C
The Management Menu
You can use the GUI to manage the switch itself, including:
• creating user accounts and enabling system security
• creating and editing files
• backing files up to the switch’s Flash memory or to a PC or TFTP server
• restoring the switch’s configuration from backup
• specifying which software and configuration files the switch uses on
bootup, and displaying the currently-used files
• enabling software release and feature licences
• upgrading the switch’s software
The Monitoring Menu
When you browse to the GUI, the sidebar menu opens to display the
monitoring menu, opened at the System > Status. From this menu, you can also
check:
• information about the switch’s hardware
• information about traffic over each port
• the Layer 2 Forwarding Database, which shows the MAC addresses
that the switch ports have learned, and out which port the switch will
switch traffic to each MAC address
• information about Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries
•the IP route table
• information about the state of ping polling, including counters
• the log messages that the switch automatically generates. You can also
set up filters to determine where messages are saved to and which
messages are saved.
The Diagnostics Menu
The GUI’s diagnostics pages enable you to troubleshoot network problems and
observe traffic flow, including:
• displaying the number of good and bad packets received and
transmitted over each switch port
• displaying the number of frames related to 802.1x port authentication
received and transmitted over each authenticator and supplicant
• displaying the number and type of PPP packets received and
transmitted
• displaying the number and type of packets received and transmitted by
IP, and discarded by the IP gateway
• displaying the number and type of ICMP and UDP packets received
and transmitted
• displaying the number and type of RIP packets received and
transmitted; and the octets received and transmitted over each IP route
• displaying the number and type of IPX packets received and
transmitted; and the bytes received and transmitted over each IPX route
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