4.6 Monitoring the Switch

The Network Monitor Menu provides access to port statistics, address tables, STA information, VLANs registration and forwarding information, multicast groups. Each of the screens provided by these menus is described in the following sections.

Menu

Description

Port Statistics

Displays statistics on port traffic, including information from the Interfaces Group,

 

Ethernet-like MIB, and RMON MIB.

Layer 2 Address

Contains the unicast address table.

Table

 

Bridge Menu

Displays Spanning Tree settings for the overall switch and for specific ports.

VLAN Menu

Displays ports dynamically learned through GMRP or GVRP, and ports that are

 

currently forwarding VLAN traffic.

IP Multicast

Displays all the multicast groups active on this switch, including the multicast IP

Registration Table *1

address and the corresponding VLANs.

IP Menu *2

Displays all the IP subnets used on this switch, as well as the corresponding

 

VLANs and ports. Also contains the ARP table, routing table and multicast menu.

 

 

*1: This menu is only displayed if WGS3-2620 is set to Layer 2 mode.

*2: This menu is only displayed on WGS3-404 or WGS3-2620 when it is set to multilayer mode.

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