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Preface

Use this guide as a reference for the SPECTRUM Fast Ethernet SmartSwitch

Module management software. Before using this guide, you should be familiar with SPECTRUM’s functions and navigational techniques as described in the

Administrator’s Reference and the Operator’s Reference .

For the purposes of this guide, a Fast Ethernet SmartSwitch Module is referred to as a “device.”

What Is in This Guide

The organization of the Fast Ethernet SmartSwitch Module Management

Module Guide is as follows:

Chapter

Chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 2

Device Views

Chapter 3

Configuration Views

Chapter 4

Event and Alarm Messages

Chapter 5

Application View s

Description

Describes the devices, the management module software, and the model types.

Describes the Device views representing the devices.

Describes the Configuration views for the devices and the network management information provided by the views.

Lists and explains the event and alarm messages generated in the Event Log or Alarm Manager for the device model type.

Describes the Application views and the application-specific information for the devices.

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Conventions

Conventions

This guide uses the following conventions:

• Menu selections and buttons referenced in text appear in bold ; for example, Configuration or Detail .

• Buttons appear as shadowed boxes when describing their use; for example:

Help

• Menu navigation appears in order of selection; for example, Icon

Subviews -> Utilities -> Application .

• Referenced chapter titles and section headings appear in italics .

• Referenced documents appear in bold italics .

• A Fast Ethernet SmartSwitch Module is referred to as a “device.”

Related SPECTRUM Documentation

It is important when using this guide that you have a clear understanding of

SPECTRUM functionality and navigation techniques as described in the following recommended documentation:

Operator’s Reference

Administrator’s Reference

Report Generator User’s Guide

Application View Reference

Getting Started with SPECTRUM 4.0 for Operators

Getting Started with SPECTRUM 4.0 for Administrators

How to Manage Your Network with SPECTRUM

This guide also references the following documents:

SPECTRUM Portable Management Application Tools Guide

SPECTRUM Routing Services Management Module Guide

SPECTRUM Portable Management Application for the 2E42 Fast

Ethernet SmartSwitch User’s Guide

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Management Module Guide

Other Related Documentation

Other Related Documentation

Refer to the following documentation for more information on managing TCP/

IP-based networks:

Martin, James, Kathleen Kavanagh Chapman, Joe Leben.

Local Area

Networks, Architectures and Implementations , 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs,

NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Rose, Marshall T. The Simple Book — An Introduction to Management of

TCP/IP-based Internets . Performance Systems International, Inc.

Stallings, William. Data and Computer Communications , 4th ed. New

York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994.

Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Computer Networks , 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:

Prentice Hall, 1996.

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