Chapter 12 Performance Monitoring

12.6.2 ASAP Card Ethernet Performance Monitoring Parameters

Table 12-7

maxBaseRate for STS Circuits

 

 

 

 

STS

 

maxBaseRate

 

 

 

 

STS-1

 

51840000

 

 

 

 

 

STS-3c

 

155000000

 

 

 

 

 

STS-6c

 

311000000

 

 

 

 

 

STS-12c

 

622000000

 

 

 

 

 

Note Line utilization numbers express the average of ingress and egress traffic as a percentage of capacity.

12.6.2.3 ASAP Card Ether Ports History Window

The Ethernet Ether Ports History window lists past Ethernet statistics for the previous time intervals. The History window displays the statistics for each port for the number of previous time intervals as shown in Table 12-8. The listed parameters are defined in Table 12-6 on page 12-12.

Table 12-8

Ethernet History Statistics per Time Interval

 

 

 

 

Time Interval

 

Number of Intervals Displayed

 

 

 

 

1 minute

 

60 previous time intervals

 

 

 

 

15 minutes

 

32 previous time intervals

 

 

 

 

1 hour

 

24 previous time intervals

 

 

 

1 day (24 hours)

7 previous time intervals

 

 

 

 

12.6.2.4 ASAP Card POS Ports Statistics Parameters

The Ethernet POS Ports statistics window lists Ethernet POS parameters at the line level.

Table 12-9defines the ASAP card Ethernet POS Ports parameters.

Table 12-9 ASAP Card POS Ports Parameters

Parameter

Meaning

 

 

Time Last Cleared

A time stamp indicating the last time statistics were reset.

 

 

Link Status

Indicates whether the Ethernet link is receiving a valid Ethernet

 

signal (carrier) from the attached Ethernet device; up means

 

present, and down means not present.

 

 

Framing Type

Layer 1 framing, HDLC or GFP

 

 

Rx Packets

Number of packets received since the last counter reset.

 

 

Tx Packets

Number of packets transmitted since the last counter reset.

 

 

Rx Octets

Number of bytes received (from the SONET/SDH path) prior to the

 

bytes undergoing high-level data link control (HLDC)

 

decapsulation by the policy engine.

 

 

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