Enterasys Networks 6000 - Manual (Page 41)

The Device View
2-22 Viewing Device Information
SmartSwitch 6000 chassis: The backplane connections are indexed 1–5, where 1 indicates
the connection to first slot in the chassis and 5 indicates the connection to the last slot.
Matrix E7 chassis: The backplane connections are indexed 1–7, where 1 indicates the
connection to first slot in the chassis and 7 indicates the connection to the last slot. Second
generation boards used in the Matrix E7 show only 5 slots.
Backplane View Bridge Display Form
When the Backplane View display form is in the default Bridge mode, each connection is
represented by a color-coded text field as follows:
FWD (Green) The interface is on-line and ready to forward packets across the
SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7 from one module to another.
DIS (Blue) Bridging at the interface has been disabled by management; no
traffic can be received or forwarded on this interface, including
configuration information for the bridged topology.
LIS (Magenta) The interface is not adding information to the filtering
database. It is monitoring Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU)
traffic while preparing to move to the forwarding state.
LRN (Magenta) The Forwarding database is being created, or the Spanning
Tree Algorithm is being executed because of a network
topology change. The interface is monitoring network traffic,
and learning network addresses.
BLK (Orange) The interface is on-line, but filtering traffic from going across
the SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7 from one module to
another. Bridge topology information will be forwarded by the
interface.
BRK (Red) The interface has malfunctioned.
Backplane View Interface Display Form
When the Backplane View is in Interface mode, each connection is represented by a
color-coded text field that indicates a combination of the interface’s Administrative status,
Operational status, and Link status.
The following status conditions are supported:
UNK (Gray) NetSight Element Manager cannot determine the backplane
interface’s Administrative, Operational, or Link status.
NOTE
For Matrix E7 users: Modules for the Matrix E7 (6C107) chassis are third generation
(6x3xx) boards. Third generation boards are fully supported in any of the 6C107 chassis’
seven slots. Second generation boards (6x2xx SmartSwitch modules) are fully supported
in slots 1-5 in the 6C107 chassis. A second generation board in slot 6 or 7 of the 6C107
will act as a standalone module.