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3-2 Departmental Switch Model DS-16B2 Fabric OS Procedures Manual
Displaying Error Logs and Status
Displaying the Status of a Port
There are two types of statistics you can view for a port:
software statistics
hardware statistics

Displaying Software

Statistics for a Port Software statistics for a port include information such as port state,
number of interrupts, number of link failures, number of loss of
synchronization warnings, and number of loss of signal warnings.
To display the software statistics for a port:
1. Log in to the switch as the admin user.
2. At the command line, enter the following command:
portShow portnumber
where portnumber is the number of the port you want to view. A
table of software statistics for the port displays.
For more information on the portShow command, refer to the Departmental
Switch Model DS-16B2 Fabric OS Reference Manual.

Displaying

Hardware Statistics

for a Port

Hardware statistics for a port include information such as number of
frames received, number of frames sent, number of encoding errors
received, and number of class 2 and 3 frames received.
To display the hardware statistics for a port:
1. Log in to the switch as the admin user.
2. At the command line, enter the following command:
portStatsShow portnumber
where portnumber is the number of the port you want to view. A
table of hardware statistics for the port displays.
For more information on the portStatsShow command, refer to the
Departmental Switch Model DS-16B2 Fabric OS Reference Manual.