Cabletron Systems Understanding the Port Performance View for IRM3 Hubs

Port Performance View

IRM2, IRM3, IRBM, and MiniMMAC Hubs

IRM2, IRM3, IRBM, and MiniMMAC Hubs

The Port Performance View for IRM2, IRM3, IRBM and MiniMMAC hubs displays monitoring point performance statistics gathered by SPECTRUM. These statistics include load, error rate, frame rate and collision rate. The banner across the top of the Port Performance View provides information about the monitoring point. The border color of the banner indicates the device status. The border area contains the following fields:

Name

The user-defined or default name of the model.

Location

The location of the device as entered in the Creation dialog box when the model was created. If no location has been specified, this field displays the model name of the SPECTRUM location view containing the device.

Network Address

The network IP address of the device.

Device Type

The SPECTRUM Model Type (e.g., Hub_CSI_IRBM).

System Up Time

The time, displayed in days+hours:minutes:seconds, that the device has been on-line.

Slot/Port Number

The slot number and the port number in this format: 1.1 (Slot number 1, Port number 1).

The Port Performance View includes a multi-attribute line graph that shows network load in green, frame rate in blue, error rate in orange and collision rate in yellow. The IRM3 has an additional field, Active Users, which displays the number of active users detected by the hub. Table 6-1displays the categories of information supplied by the Port Performance View.

In addition to the banner and the Multi-Attribute Line Graph, the

Performance View provides the following buttons:

Log/Lin

This button allows you to toggle how the multi-attribute line graph is displayed. You can display the network statistics in Logarithmic or Linear format

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