Nortel Networks 2500 Series - Manual (Page 23)

Device Manager concepts 23
Color Description
Gray Port is unmanageable
Purple Port is in loopback testing mode - not supported in all switch models
Shortcut menus
This section describes the port and switch shortcuts.
The switch shortcut menu provides access to basic switch hardware
information and graphing dialog boxes.
The port shortcut menu provides a faster path to edit and graph a port.
The following table describes switch unit shortcut commands.
Command Description
Unit # Displays the unit number.
Edit Opens a read-only dialog box that provides basic switch hardware
information.
Show Port Tooltip Mouse over a port in the front panel view to display the port name and
speed.
Show port tooltip is enabled by default.
Refresh Port Tooltip Refreshes the port tooltip information if it is changed. To update the
tooltip display, from the Device Manager menu bar choose Edit > Port,
and then click Refresh Port Tooltip.
Refresh PoE status Refreshes port Power over Ethernet (PoE) status—not all switch models
have PoE.
The following table describes the port shortcut commands.
Command Description
Edit Opens a dialog box to set port operating parameters.
Graph Opens a dialog box to display port statistics and display statistics as a
graph.
Enable Brings a port up administratively.
Disable Shuts a port down administratively—port color changes to red in the
Device view.
Shortcut menus procedures
Perform the following procedure to access the shortcut menu.
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series
Fundamentals
NN47215-102 01.01 Standard
27 October 2008
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