Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions Omni Switch/Router - Manual (Page 125)

Main Menu Summary
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Main Menu Summary
These menus, their sub-menus, and sub-options are described in this manual. The following
provides a brief overview of each item on this main menu.
File . Contains options for downloading system software, listing software files, copying files,
editing files, and deleting files. This menu is fully described in Chapter 7, “Managing Files.”
Summary . Provides very basic information on the physical switch, such as its name, MAC
address, and resets. It also provides options for viewing the virtual interface and information
on the
MIB . This menu is described in Chapter 9, “Switch-Wide Parameters.”
VLAN . The main menu for configuring Groups, virtual ports, and AutoTracker VLANs . This
menu also contains a sub-menu for configuring bridging parameters, such as Spanning Tree.
Groups and ports are described in Chapter 19, “Managing Groups and Ports.”
VLANs are
described in Chapter 22, “Managing AutoTracker VLAN s” and Chapter 23, “Multicast VLANs .”
Bridging parameters are described in Chapter 17, “Configuring Bridging Parameters.”
Networking . Contains menu options for managing internetworking protocols, such as SNMP
and RMON (described in Chapters 13 and 14, respectively), IP (described in Chapter 25, “ IP
Routing,”) and IPX (described in Chapter 27, “ IPX Routing”).
Interface . The main menu for configuring parameters and viewing statistics for switching
modules. This menu has sub-menus for managing Frame Relay and Fast Ethernet switching
modules. In addition it includes a sub-option for configuring
SLIP . These sub-menus are
described in Chapters 15 through 16 and Chapter 29.
Security . This menu contains options for changing a password and rebooting the system. It is
described in Chapter 8, “Switch Security.”
System . Contains a wide array of options for configuring and viewing information on a vari-
ety of switch functions. Options include displays of switch slot contents, configuring serial
ports, and viewing
CAM information. Commands used to configure User Interface display
options are described in User Interface Display Options on page 4-30. Other System menu
commands are described in Chapter 9, “Configuring Switch-Wide Parameters.” The System
menu also includes a sub-menu option that provides additional commands for configuring the
MPX module. This sub-menu is described in Chapter 6, “Configuring Management Processor
Modules.”
Services . Provides options for creating, modifying, viewing, and deleting Frame Relay
services. Frame Relay services include bridging, routing, and trunking. Frame Relay services
are described in Chapter 29, “Managing Frame Relay.”
Switch . Provides options to precisely define frame translations. A MAC -layer type (Ethernet,
Token Ring, etc.) may have more than one type of frame format, such as Ethernet or 802.3 .
But, by default, each MAC -layer type defaults to certain frame format upon translation. This
menu allows you to define translations for each frame format. This menu is described in
Chapter 18, “Configuring Frame Translations.”
Help . Provides textual help on how to use the UI and on each menu or sub-menu. For the
item of interest, enter
help <sub-menu name>