Fore Systems ES-2810 - The Telnet Facility; Purpose; What Does It Do

FORE Systems ES-2810 Ethernet Switch User's Manual
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Managing the Switch
Managing the Switch
5.12 The Telnet Facility
5.12.1 Purpose
The switch’s Telnet facility has the following main features:
• It can be accessed from any workstation on the network using Telnet
• Access can be password protected to exclude unauthorized personnel
• Two distinct levels of management rights: administrator and user
• Log files (to pinpoint trouble sources) to provide diagnostic information for trou-
bleshooting
• Detailed system information and operational statistics
5.12.2 What Does It Do?
This facility is divided into four parts:
• Configuration
Allows you to change the basic configuration parameters of the switch, reset some
of the configuration as well as save and load backups of the configuration.
• Monitoring shows:
- A hardware and software overview
- Details on messages from the system log
- Normal traffic throughput
- Number of errors, discards, observations and collisions for the switch
- An overview of port-specific errors, discards, observations and collisions
- Spanning Tree Protocol for the switch bridge and specific ports
- MAC addresses on specific ports, and which ports have no MAC addresses
- VLAN details