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SNA Status and Configuration
SDLC Link Station General Statistics
The SDLC Link Station General Statistics window provides general information
about the link station trafÞc that is being transmitted across the selected port. To
access the window:
1. Click mouse button 3 on the SNA port of interest to display the Port Menu.
2. Drag down to SDLC LS General Stats, and release. The SDLC Link Station
General Statistics window, Figure 7-8, will appear.
Figure 7-8. SDLC Link Station General Statistics
The SDLC Link Station General Statistics window provides the following
statistical data:
Busies (Local and Remote)
The total number of times that the local, or an adjacent (remote), SDLC link
station has entered a busy (RNR) state since link station startup, expressed as a
rate (busies/second).
Protocol Errors
The number of times, since link station startup, when this SDLC link station has
deactivated the link as a result of receiving a frame from its adjacent link station
which was in violation of the protocol, expressed as a rate (deactivations/second).
Inactivity TOs
The number of times, since link station startup, when this SDLC link station has
deactivated the link as a result of no activity on the link, expressed as a rate
(deactivations/second).