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The Enterprise/Solver Connectivity Tools Reference Guide provides information pertaining to the NETSYS Technologies (hereafter referred to as NETSYS) Enterprise/Solver family of products (Connectivity Baseliner and Connectivity Solver) features, components, and functions.
The Enterprise/Solver Connectivity Tools User's Guide is a companion manual to this manual. While there is overlap between the two manuals, the Enterprise/Solver Connectivity Tools User's Guide is procedural, whereas this book is referenced-based in style.
This book is written as a technical resource about the features and components of the Connectivity Tools for network, system, MIS, and application development managers, as well as network administrators, planners, analysts, and capacity planners. The Enterprise/Solver Connectivity Tools User's Guide on the other hand provides a set of tutorials with examples showing how to accomplish various tasks using the Connectivity Tools.
Having just purchased one of the Connectivity Tools, you should read and follow the instructions on setting up your work environment provided in the Enterprise/Solver Connectivity Tools READ THIS FIRST (hereafter referred to as the RTF) document. Also provided in the RTF is information on compatibility and minimum software requirements, an inventory of the components, known problems, and any last minute information about the Connectivity Tools not available when the documents went to press.
This book is organized as follows:
"Overview" is an overview of the Connectivity Tools.
"Connectivity Baseliner" provides information about the Connectivity Baseliner features and components.
"Baseliner Windows" provides information about the windows displayed as a result of invoking Connectivity Baseliner features from the Connectivity Tools window.
"Creating the Topology" provides information about creating a topology and describes the components of the Topology window.
"Diagnostic Report" provides information about the Diagnostic Report and describes the components of the Diagnostic Report window.
"Connectivity Solver" provides information about the Connectivity Solver features and components.
"Connectivity Solver Windows" provides information about the windows displayed as a result of invoking Connectivity Solver features from the Connectivity Tools window.
"Router Configuration Windows" provides information about configuring router attributes through the Router Configuration window and its associated windows.
"IP Configuration Windows" provides information about configuring IP routing protocol attributes from the Router Configuration window.
"IPX Configuration Windows" provides information about configuring IPX routing protocol attributes from the Router Configuration window.
"LAN Segment Windows" provides information about configuring LAN segment attributes through the LAN Segment window and its associated windows.
"Link Segment Window" provides information about configuring Link segment attributes through the Link Segment window and its associated windows.
"Cisco Router Configuration Commands Modeled" provides information about the router configuration commands currently modeled by the Connectivity Tools.
"Baseline Integrity Checks" provides a description of the integrity semantic checks performed by the baseline parser program.
"Baseline Syntax and Policy Checking" provides a description of the syntax and policy checking performed by the Connectivity Tools parser.
Following is a list of recommended books related to the tasks described in this book:
This section discusses conventions and terminology used throughout this manual.
This section discusses mouse conventions and terminology used throughout this manual.
The mouse contains three buttons (described below) with their default locations in parentheses. As your mouse may be configured differently, the mouse buttons will always be referred to by the names listed below:
The SELECT mouse button is the default button. If a particular mouse button is not specified, assume the reference is to the SELECT mouse button. For example, if the text specifies to "Click on the OK button", it assumed to mean "Click the SELECT mouse button on the OK button."
The following mouse button Motif standards are used when selecting entries from a list:
Following are the typographic changes, and what they signify, used throughout this book.
| Typeface or Symbol | Description of Use | Example of Use |
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| The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output. | Edit your Use
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ABCDabcd | Menu items and text you type on the command line. | Select the |
AaBbCc123 | Specifies a variable name to be replaced with a real name or value. | To delete a file, type |
ABCDabcd | Book titles, newly introduced words or terms, or words to be emphasized. | See Chapter 1 in the Reference Guide. Following are class options. You must have root privileges. |
The following table shows the default system and superuser prompts for the C, Bourne, and Korn shells.
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C shell prompt | |
C shell superuser (root) prompt. | |
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt. | |
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser (root) prompt. | |
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