Accessing Hub Features

Interpreting Device Status

Table 6-1. Gauge Attributes for Hubs

 

 

Attribute

Description

Severity Values

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Utilization%

Represents the traffic on the port as a

Warning: 40%

 

 

 

percentage of the port’s bandwidth.

Critical: 75%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collisions%

Represents the number of collisions that have

Warning: 30%

 

 

 

occurred expressed as a percentage of the

Critical: 50%

 

 

 

packets transmitted through the port.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Broadcasts/sec

Represents the number of broadcast packets

Warning: 150/sec

 

Features

 

 

being transmitted through the port per second.

Critical: 400/sec

 

 

 

 

 

Errors%

Represents the number of errors that have

Warning: 0%-1%

 

 

 

occurred expressed as a percentage of the

Critical: 1%

Hub

 

 

total number of packets received through the

 

 

 

port.

 

 

 

 

 

Accessing

 

 

 

 

 

Multicasts/sec

Represents the number of multicast packets

Warning: 1500/

 

 

 

 

 

being transmitted through the port per second.

sec

 

 

 

 

Critical: 4000/sec

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Status - Global Counters

Hub Global Counters

Selecting the Global Counters button displays a page listing eight counters and their values since the last device reset. The counters are totals for the device. To view counters by port, select the Port Counters tab.

Switching Hub Global Counters

The switching hubs display the counters described in the following table.

Table 6-2. Switching Hub Global Counters

Counter

Description

 

 

Total Packets

Total number of packets (including bad packets, broadcast

 

packets, and multicast packets) received.

 

 

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