B&B Electronics 316TX-N - Manual User Manual
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System Menu
Command
Description
Comment
nview
Get information about
N-View
TM
function.
info
or
info1, info2,...
Displays the current system status.
(info for 308FX2/309)
(info1,2 for 316/317)
LINK Status. Rate, Flow, etc.
restore
Restores the defaults of the switch (complete
reset). **Note: Power cycle is required
when completed.
restores the factory settings of the switch. With the
exception of the “protected settings” (see
„Restoring Defaults‟), the settings made by the user
are reset to the default values.
N-View
TM
Menu
With the N-View
TM
OPC software and an appropriate OPC viewer, one can monitor port and switch status
via the LAN. When enabled, periodic Multicast MAC packets are sent out from every port.
Command
Description
Comment
info
Displays the current values of the
switch settings
MAC address,
Enabled or disabled
disable (or enable)
Enable Disable N-View
TM
Choice is opposite of current state
Notes on N-View
TM
:
With the „-N‟ option all ports have N-View „enabled‟ in defaults, but can be it can be disabled.
Rate for generation of MIB information frames is ~6.4 seconds.
The FX Port is mapped to port 9 on the 309, and as port 17 on the 317. On the 308FX2, ports 7 and 8 are FX ports.
Example of the N-View info screen:
CLI\SYSTEM\N-VIEW>info
N-View is ENABLED.
MAC ADDRESS:00-07-AF-00-05-26
/ (Go to top of menu tree)
? (Show menus/commands)
info (Get information about N-View)
disable (Disable N-View)
CLI\SYSTEM\N-VIEW>
Literally thousands of switches in one normal LAN can have N-View enabled without negative impact, but
for LANs that include extremely low bandwidth wireless links N-View can be disabled.