Managing Your Access Server As Part of the LAT Network

 

 

Field

Description

 

 

Rating column

Value assigned to the service by the service node,

 

indicating relative capacity to accept new

 

connections or new queue connections. This value is

 

the current load-balancing rating associated with the

 

service. The rating varies from 0 to 255. With the

 

higher value, the capacity of the service node to

 

accept a new connection is greater.

 

 

Viewing LAT Node Counters Information

The SHOW/MONITOR NODE COUNTERS command displays the counters for messages transmitted between the access server and the selected LAT service nodes. The counters apply only to the specified LAT service nodes. Some of these counters are also maintained for all the service nodes that the access server recognizes. When you enter a specific node name for the SHOW/MONITOR NODE node-nameCOUNTERS command, the counter values for only that service node appear in the display. To see the combined counters for all service nodes, use the SHOW SERVER COUNTER command.

Counters can help you estimate access server traffic on the network for specific time periods. For example, for information about daily access server usage, set the counters to zero at the start of each day.

You can also use counters data to calculate the average use of the Ethernet and the service nodes. By combining this data from the access server with the counters data from other access servers, you can calculate the network’s capacity to handle more traffic.

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