Cabletron Systems 6H122-16 manual Data Source Read-only

Chapter 5: Local Management

Data Source (Read-only)

This field displays the source of the statistics data that is currently being displayed on the screen. Figure 5-37shows that the data source for this RMON index is Interface XX by displaying the name IfIndex.XX. If the screen was displaying RMON statistics for Interface 1 (port 1), the name displayed would be IfIndex.1.

Owner (Read-only)

This field displays the name of the entity that configured this entry.

Status (Read-only)

The Status field displays the current operating status of the displayed interface. This field will display “valid” or “invalid”.

Drop Events (Read-only)

This field displays the total number of times that the RMON agent was forced to discard frames due to the lack of available switch resources.

NOTE

The Drop Events field does not display the actual number of frames dropped, it only displays the number of times that the RMON agent was forced to discard frames.

Collisions (Read-only)

This field displays the total number of collisions that have occurred on this interface.

Broadcast Pkts (Read-only)

The Broadcast Pkts field displays the total number of good frames that were directed to the broadcast address. The value of this field does not include multicast frames.

Multicasts (Read-only)

The Multicasts field displays the total number of good frames received that were directed to a multicast address. The value of this field does not include frames directed to the broadcast address.

CRC Align Errors (Read-only)

This field displays the number of frames with bad Cyclic Redundancy Checks (CRC) or misaligned frames received from the network. The CRC is a 4-byte field in the data frames that ensures that the data received is the same as the data that was originally sent.

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