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This chapter describes the use of the CoreBuilderTM 7000 System Administration Console. This description is based on the main menu display and its controls.
The administration console configures your CoreBuilder 7000 ATM switch. It also provides some network management capabilities. To augment network management, you can use an external application, such as 3Com's TranscendTM CoreBuilder Manager (see Transcend Guide).
Administration Console functions include:
In This Chapter
General
The Administration Console monitor gives you three basic displays: the initial, introductory display; the Main Menu with command line (see Figure 3-1); and the submenus which branch off the main menu. The submenus will be dealt with in the following chapter.
Upon activation, the monitor will inform you that the CoreBuilder 7000 ATM Backbone Switch is waiting for you to enter one of three access levels: read, write or admin. Each of these levels will provide you with a different subset of the full menu, read and write containing partial subsets and admin the full set. The read option will allow you only to view information about the system. With write, you can enter minor changes. Only at the admin level can you enter parameters to configure the switch.
To select your level, key it in after the angle bracket prompt (>) and press Enter. The system will request a password, a string of up to eight undisplayable alphanumeric or symbol characters. The factory defaults are: no password for read, and the level name for write and admin. To change the passwords, refer to PAS: Password Setup in Chapter 4. Press Enter to finalize your selection.
The Main Menu for the level selected appears upon entry of password Enter. For purposes of illustration, Figure 3-1presents the admin Main Menu.
Main Menu:
(1) SYS: Platform config ->
(2) LEM: Lan Emulation ->
(3) CON: Connections ->
(4) STS: Statistics ->
(5) DIA: Testing & Diagnostics
(6) FTR: ATM features
(7) LOG: Logout
(8) RBO: Reboot
Figure 3-1 Admin Main Menu
(The two other Main Menus lack the Testing & Diagnostics and Reboot options.) The arrow symbol (->) indicates that the menu option branches off into one or more submenus. The angle bracket prompt symbol (>) invites the keyboard entry of a menu option, either by number or abbreviation. Pressing Enter will display the submenus available or other system information. The entry space following this prompt is called the command line, and is able to hold 336 keyboard characters.
Once a menu option is entered, the abbreviation precedes the angle bracket prompt. Successive submenu entries will define the hierarchical path from the most recently invoked and most deeply embedded submenu to the original (root) Main Menu option. When there are no more submenus to call up, the last submenu abbreviation entered will precede a double angle bracket prompt (>>) to indicate that parameters, and not submenu options, must now be entered into the command line.
Thus, for example, entering 3 after the Main Menu prompt produces the CON submenu, with its various options, and a command line following the prompt (3)CON>. Keying in this submenu's (1) option will give you the prompt (3)CON(1)ADD>, and finally, keying in the ADD submenu's (2) option will produce the prompt (3)CON(1)ADD(2)STS>>.
As the Main Menu display instructs, keying backslash () Enter into the command line will redisplay the Main Menu, no matter how far down the submenu path you are
Also according to the Main Menu display, keying a hyphen (-) Enter into the command line will return you to the previous menu.
After entering parameters, keying in a left angle bracket (<) Enter will clear the value of the parameter last entered
Keying in a right angle bracket (>) Enter will clear the values of all the parameters in the list just entered.
The application keypad keys (VT100) are used to transit and edit the command line.
Key in an up arrow to retrieve a previous command, a down arrow for the next command.
Left/right arrows enable you to move back and forth within the command line.
Deletes the character preceding the insertion point.
Deletes the character following the insertion point.
Toggles between Insert and Overwrite modes.
Moves the cursor to the beginning of the command line.
Moves the cursor to the end of the command line.