Fluke NetTool manual Health, Doctor, I have a pain in my network

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Health

Doctor, I have a pain in my network.

⇒Select Health from the Toolkit menu to view the health of frames and to simultaneously check each side of the conversation for healthy frames in real time.

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⇒Use the navigational buttons and then press Select to change the meters to show utilization broadcast traffic, collision levels and errors coming from either device to which NetTool is connected.

⇒You can highlight an item within the Health screen and press Select to change the view. For example, highlight the reading below a meter and press Select to view the data as frames per second or percentages.

Note

If you exit the Health display and return later without powering down, NetTool displays the “last-saved” settings. If you power down NetTool while viewing the Health display, the readings will not be saved. Access Setup screen and select Restore Defaults to restore factory settings.

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