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64 CHAPTER 4: DEVICE ADMINISTRATION
Figure 23 IP Ping Console Dialog
The dialog pre-fills the command line text box with the command ‘ping’
followed by the IP address of the device you have selected. The command
line is provided so that you can specify additional command line options
to the ping command. When you click Start, the ping command is run
and its output is displayed in the Output window.
Trace Route The Trace Router feature enables you to run the Windows system ‘tracert’
utility. This utility lets you trace the router path from the management
station to the device you’re interested in. If the device has more than one
IP interface, the Trace Route menu will contain submenus for each IP
address the device has.
When you select a device and click on Trace Route... from the right-click
menu, a console dialog is launched as shown in Figure 24
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