and Analyzing

Operation

Monitoring

Switch

 

 

Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Overview

Overview

The Series 2500 switches have several built-in tools for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting switch and network operation:

Status: Includes options for displaying general switch information, man- agement address data, port status, MAC addresses detected on each port, and STP, IGMP, and VLAN data.

Counters: Display details of traffic volume on individual ports.

Event Log: Lists switch operating events.

Alert Log: Lists network occurrences detected by the switch (in the Status Overview screen of the web browser interface).

Configurable trap receivers: Uses SNMP to enable management sta- tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch.

Port or VLAN monitoring (mirroring): Copy all traffic from the spec- ified ports or VLAN to a designated monitoring port.

N o t e

Link test, ping test, browse configuration, and the Command prompt—analysis

 

tools in troubleshooting situations—are described in chapter 8, “Troubleshoot-

 

ing”. See “Diagnostic Tools” on page 14.

 

 

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