Allied Telesis Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 3 - Manual (Page 28)

Chapter 1: Starting and Using BACS 3
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Test LED
This test causes all of the port LEDs to blink 5 times for the purpose of
identifying the adapter.
Analyzing Cables
The Cable Analysis option on the Diagnostics tab lets you monitor the
conditions of each wire pair in an Ethernet Category 5 cable connection
within an Ethernet network. The analysis measures the cable quality and
compares it against the IEEE 802.3ab specification for compliance.
Note
You must have administrator privileges to run the cable analysis
test.
Note
The network connection is temporarily lost during an analysis.
Note
For Allied Telesis or Broadcom-based adapters, the cable analysis
test can only run for gigabit link speed connections and when there
is no connection.
Note
This option is not available for all Allied Telesis fiber network
adapters.
To run a cable analysis, do the following:
1. Connect the cable to a port on a switch where the port is set to Auto
and the Speed & Duplex driver settings are also set to Auto.
2. Click the name of the adapter to test in the Device Management pane.
3. Click the Diagnostics tab.
If the Diagnostics tab is not visible, then from the View menu, select
Navigate, Device Management, and then Diagnostics.
The Cable Analysis Page is displayed. See Figure 10.
4. From the Select a test to run list, select Cable Analysis. If the Cable
Analysis option is not available, then from the Context View tab on
the right side of the window, select Diagnostics and then select Cable
Analysis.
5. Click Run.