38CHAPTER 4: ADVANCED MANAGEMENT TASKS
Viewing | Device View enables you to display a variety of activity and error statistics |
Performance | at device, segment, and port level. The statistics that are available depend |
Statistics | on the type of port or device that you select. |
You can view statistics for the following 3Com devices:
■CoreBuilder 2500
■CoreBuilder 3500
■CoreBuilder 9000 Enterprise Switch
■CoreBuilder 9400 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
■SuperStack II Switch 3900
■SuperStack II Switch 9300
■LANplex 2016 Switch
To display statistics for one of these devices:
1Select a port.
2From the shortcut menu, select one of the statistics options.
The available options depend on the type of port selected but include:
■Port statistics — Shows graphs for inbound and outbound counters (bytes and packets) that help you determine port traffic.
■Bridge statistics — Show graphs for bridge port utilization counters, such as Spanning Tree frames, multicast limit exceeds, and same segment discards.
■Switch statistics — Shows the ratio of forwarded to filtered packets. This graph shows the effectiveness of switching in managing the network traffic.
■Error statistics — Shows graphs for various error statistics depending on the type of port selected (ethernet or FDDI MAC).
■Ring Utilization statistics — Shows utilization statistics for FDDI MAC ports.
■RMON statistics — Launches LANsentry® Manager, which consists of an integrated set of applications that you can use to display and explore the