Connecting To The Console Port - Cisco RJ-45-to-AUX Brochure

RMON provides support for the following groups of Token Ring extensions:
MAC−Layer Statistics Group—A collection of statistics from the MAC sublayer of the Data Link
layer, kept for each Token Ring interface. This group collects information such as the total number of
MAC layer packets received and the number of times the port entered a beaconing error state.
Promiscuous Statistics Group—A collection of promiscuous statistics kept for non−MAC packets on
each Token Ring interface. This group collects information such as the total number of good
non−MAC frames received that were directed to a Logical Link Control (LLC) broadcast address.
Ring Station Group—A collection of statistics and status information associated with each Token
Ring station on the local ring. This group also provides status information for each ring being
monitored.
Ring Station Order Group—A list of the order of stations on the monitored Token Ring network's
rings.
To see a list of available commands, use the ? command. Table 2.1 provides a list of the ROM command−line
interface commands and a brief description of each.
Table 2.1: ROM command−line interface commands.
Command
alias
boot
confreg
dev
dir
history
meminfo
repeat
reset
set
sync
unalias
unset=varname
varname=value

Connecting to the Console Port

To initially configure a switch, you must make a connection to the console port and enter instructions to the
switch from this port. The console comes preconfigured on a Cisco device and ready to use. You can access
the console port in a number of ways, as shown in Figure 2.2.
Description
Configures and displays aliases
Boots up an external process
Configures the configuration register utility
Shows device IDs available on a platform
Shows files of the named device
Shows the last 16 commands
Shows switch memory information
Repeats a specified command
Performs a switch reboot/reset
Shows monitor variable names with their values
Saves the ROM monitor configuration
Deletes the alias name and associated value from the
alias list
Deletes a variable name from the variable list
Assigns a value to a variable
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