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Administering ATM

You can display summary or detailed reports, create labels, and list virtual

Ports

channel connection (VCC) information for ATM ports.

Displaying Port You can display a summary of ATM port information or a detailed report. Information When you display a summary, you receive information about the port,

including its label, status, and the most important statistics about general port activity and port errors. The detailed report includes the information in the summary plus additional port statistics, such as cells discarded.

To display information about ATM ports:

1From the top level of the Administration Console, enter: atm ports summary or atm ports detail

The port information is displayed in the format you specified. Sample summary display:

status

cfgVPCs

cfgVCCs

inService

2

10

bandWidth

rxCells

txCells

148608000

13467

13434

 

portLabel

 

Sample detail display:

 

status

cfgVPCs

cfgVCCs

inService

2

10

bandWidth

rxCells

txCells

148608000

13196

13163

ocdEvents

hecErrors

txCellDiscards

2

7

0

transType

mediaType

uniType

sonet

multiMode

private

uniVersion

tcAlarm

maxVPCs

3.0

noTcAlarm

16

maxVCCs

maxVPIbits

maxVCIbits

1024

4

10

lastChange 1 min

portLabel

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3Com Version 8.1.2 manual Administering ATM, Ports, Channel connection VCC information for ATM ports

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