Advanced switch features – HP TopTools for Hubs and Switches User Manual

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Group Policies
Advanced Switch Features

Low Sensitivity: The device will make an entry in the Alert Log only when
severe network problems occur. These are problems that may bring the
network down.

Off: The device will never make any entries in the Alert Log regardless of the
severity of the problem.

<keep device setting>: The current value stored in the switch is not modified

If you make any changes, you must click on

Apply Policies in the main

Configuration Policies page for your changes to take effect.

Advanced Switch Features

To configure Advanced Switch Features for a group, click on the

Advanced

Switch Features button in the Configuration Policies main page. The Advanced
Switch Features
page for that group displays.

The following features can be set for the selected group of switches:

Automatic Broadcast Control (ABC)

IP Multicasting (IGMP)

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

The possible settings are:

On - Turns the feature on for all switches in the selected group. On for
ABC has more options:

On for IP only - Turns on ABC for IP devices only.

On for IPX only - Turns on ABC for IPX devices only.

On for IP/IPX - Turns on ABC for IP and IPX devices.

Off - Turns the feature off for all switches

<keep device setting> - The feature is not on or off. The device conforms
to what has been set in the device console.

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