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9145EMP NID Software User’s Manual
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Preface
About this Manual
This manual provides instructions on the configuration and operation of the 9145EMP Network
Interface Device (NID) Version 4.0 software. The 9145EMP NID can be managed using the EIA-
232 serial port through a VT100 terminal emulation program, through an Ethernet connection
using Telnet, or by using SNMP.
How this Manual is Organized
This document contains both information and procedures organized in roughly chronological
order. Starting from an introduction to the 9145EMP software, it continues with system
requirements, initial implementation, and continued operation.
The document includes the following chapters:
• Chapter 1, Introduction, provides basic information about the software and navigation.
• Chapter 2, Getting Started describes how to set up and get started using the 9145EMP.
• Chapter 3, System Configuration describes how to configure the 9145EMP management
features.
• Chapter 4, Diagnostics describes how to configure and perform routine network diagnos-
tics.
• Chapter 5, Port Information describes the User port, Network port, Multipurpose port, and
the Management UTP port.
• Chapter 6, System Alarms & Logs describes how to configure System Alarms and Sys-
tem Logs.
• Chapter 7, Utilities describes system utilities.
• Chapter 8, Software Upgrade describes how to upgrade the NID software.
• Chapter 9, Link OAM describes the Operations, Administration, and Maintenance func-
tions, such as remote fault indication and remote loopback control, as specified by the
IEEE 802.3ah standard.
• Chapter 10, CoS Configuration describes how to enable or disable Class of Service sup-
port that includes classification, queuing, scheduling and queue management functions
for the 9145EMP.