RAD Data comm RIC-155 operation manual Chapter Troubleshooting Diagnostics, Monitoring Performance

Chapter 5

Troubleshooting and

Diagnostics

This chapter describes the RIC-155 diagnostic functions, which include:

•Statistics collection

•Status indications

•Alarms.

5.1Monitoring Performance

RIC-155 has capabilities for collection of the Ethernet and SDH/SONET statistics.

Displaying the Ethernet Statistics

Performance statistic data is collected for the primary Ethernet port of RIC-155.

To display the Ethernet statistics:

1.From the Main menu, select Monitoring. The Monitoring menu appears.

2.From the Monitoring menu, select Physical Ports Monitoring. The Physical Ports Monitoring menu appears.

3.From the Physical Ports Monitoring menu, select Physical Port Statistics. The Physical Port Statistics menu appears (see Figure 5-1).

4.From the Physical Port Statistics, select DATA Statistics to display the Ethernet statistics collected for the primary Ethernet port.

The DATA Statistics screen appears (see Figure 5-2).

5.The DATA Statistics screen includes the following parameters:

RX OK frames – Number of valid frames received by the DATA port TX OK frames – Number of valid frames transmitted by the DATA port

Run time – Time elapsed since the last RIC-155 power-up or statistics clearing.

To clear Ethernet statistics:

•From the DATA Statistics, select Clear Statistics to clear all collected Ethernet statistic data.

Note You can also clear all Ethernet and SDH/SONET statistic data by selecting Clear All Statistics from the Physical Port Statistics menu.

Monitoring Performance 5-1