Installation manual

TM
Network Management Manual
580-00511, rev B 7 of 34
11. Restart the unit from the Maintenance page or power-cycle the unit to make the
new Setup page settings take effect.
Note that if the end user does not want to use the management agent functions, perform
steps 1 and 2 then, on the Setup page, restrict management access to the copper interface
only and set installation auto calibration to disabled, restart the unit from Maintenance
page, and leave the copper port disconnected. There will now be no access to the
management agent until the copper port is reconnected.
Implementation Overview
This overview section is provided for network administrator reference and is not required
in order to perform typical installations.
The NMS is implemented through the use of a gigabit Ethernet switch embedded within
the units. There are three interfaces to the switch: one for the fiber port, one for the
copper port, and one for the radio port. The switch allows both user application and
management agent Ethernet packets to be delivered from/to any of the switch port
interfaces (fiber, copper, and/or radio). Packet and byte statistics are provided for all of
the switch ports.
The switch provides a MAC learning capability with a 15-second timeout for all unicast
packets, however multicast packets are not learned. The switch supports the maximum
standard Ethernet frame size (1518 bytes, or 1522 bytes for 802.1q VLAN-tagged
packets); the switch does not support non-standard oversized “jumbo” packets. The
switch is configured to pass through VLAN tags without processing them. Port VLAN
capabilities are used internally to restrict packet forwarding from/to the management
agent port using the feature found on the Setup page.
The management agent provides a PING responder, an SNMP agent and an HTML web
server to provide management pages to the user.