Fluke 683 - Page 17

Enterprise LANMeter
Setting Up Your Instrument
9
Work Area
The instrument provides test data and pop-up menus for selecting test and
configuration options. If you need to set any of these options, do so before
running a test. Pop-up menus cannot be accessed while running a test.
Whenever a procedure tells you to press
C
, doing so causes a pop-up menu
to appear. To move from one choice to another, press
M
or
L
. Press
I
to accept a menu choice. Press
G
to close a pop-up menu without making a
selection.
You can access a pop-up Test Menu by highlighting a test softkey label and
then pressing
C
. Select
Configure
and then press
I
to configure the
selected test.
Pop-up Configuration Menus are available for most tests. You can access a
pop-up Configuration Menu by selecting a top-level softkey, highlighting the
desired test softkey label, pressing
C
, and selecting the desired action.
Softkey Labels
The softkey label area is found along the bottom of the display, directly above
the five blue softkeys as shown in Figure 3. For each softkey, the label and its
associated function changes as you move through the menu system. Figure 5
shows the Ethernet softkey tree and Figure 6 shows the Token Ring softkey
tree. The softkey trees are specific to the Ethernet or Token Ring interface,
depending on which LANMeter instrument is being used or which mode is
selected (Fluke 686 and 685 only). The softkeys show options or operations
available within a test.
Status Line
The instrument displays the status line above the softkey labels as shown in
Figure 3. The status line provides information about the state of your
instrument or about controlling your instrument. For example, from the top-
level softkeys, the status line indicates how to control the screen contrast, as
shown in Figure 3.