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Chapter 1
Understanding Tools and Options
The Bay Networks BayStack ARN and AN families of routers connect
multiprotocol workgroups to corporate backbone networks. This chapter provides
an overview of the software tools and options for configuring remote access. The
chapter includes information about the following:
• Software management tools
• Router software
• Boot configuration options
• Boot process
Software Management Tools
You configure and manage an AN, ANH, or ARN using
• The graphical, SNMP-based router management tools within
Optivity Internetwork™, a component of the Bay Networks
Optivity Enterprise™ application suite:
-- Site Manager, a router management, configuration, and monitoring
application.
-- RouterMan™, a real-time router performance and status reporting
appplication.
-- PathMan™, a diagnostic application for determining the complete data
path between any two network devices.
• The Technician Interface, a terminal-based command-line interface that
operates in router memory. Technician Interface commands and scripts
provide real-time SNMP-based MIB access from an attached or remote
(modem or Telnet) console connection.
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