Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Overview

Overview

The Series 5300XL switches have several built-in tools for monitoring, analyz­ ing, and troubleshooting switch and network operation:

Status: Includes options for displaying general switch information, man­ agement address data, port status, port and trunk group statistics, MAC addresses detected on each port or VLAN, and STP, IGMP, and VLAN data (page B-3).

Counters: Display details of traffic volume on individual ports (page B-9).

Event Log: Lists switch operating events (“Using the Event Log To Identify Problem Sources” on page C-22).

Alert Log: Lists network occurrences detected by the switch—in the Status Overview screen of the web browser interface (page 4-15).

Configurable trap receivers: Uses SNMP to enable management sta­ tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch (page 10-8).

Port monitoring (mirroring): Copy all traffic from the specified ports to a designated monitoring port (page B-22).

N o t e

Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are

 

described in appendix C, “Troubleshooting”. See page C-27.

 

 

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