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Monitoring and Managing Your
•System statistics
•Ethernet port statistics
•Traffic analysis statistics
•SNMP statistics
You can use this information to analyze your overall network performance and to make configuration changes as necessary. For example, Ethernet port statistics can help you identify network devices that require high bandwidth, and therefore should be connected through a dedicated, rather than a shared, network connection. In addition, Ethernet port statistics can help you identify a network device that is the source of numerous multicast packets due to a possible malfunction.
4.2.1 Gathering Statistics
For purposes of network management, managed objects must be identified. Creation of a managed object is achieved by placing its identifier, and a set of management information appropriate to its class, in the Management Information Database (MIB).
Using the MIB variables, you can obtain a detailed analysis of your network by combining statistics for each source network, destination network, and source and destination port. The
4.2.2 System Statistics
For each
• The number of seconds since the