5.8 Monitoring the Switch

The Network Monitor Menu provides access to port statistics, address tables, STA information, VLANs registration and forwarding information, multicast groups, and subnet addresses. 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 Table

Contains the unicast address 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 Registration

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

Table1

multicast IP address and the corresponding VLANs.

IP Menu2

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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