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CHAPTER 6
Managing Ports
This section describes the following tasks that manage ports and devices:
■Displaying Port Information
■Configuring Ports
■Test ing P ort s
■Graphing Port Performance

Displaying Port Information

Port information is available primarily in the faceplate display with the Port
Statistics data window and the Port Information data window.

Port Statistics Data Window

The Port Statistics data window (FIGURE6-1) displays port performance data for the
selected ports. To open the Port Statistics data window, click the Port Stats tab below
the data window in the faceplate display. Refer to TABLE 6-1 for a description of the
Port Statistics data window entries.
The Statistics drop-down list is available on the Port Statistics data window, and
provides different ways to view detailed port information. Open the drop-down list
and select Absolute to view the total count of statistics since the last switch reset.
Select Rate to view the number of statistics counted per second over the polling
period. Select Baseline to view the total count of statistics since the last time the
baseline was set. Click the Clear Baseline button to set the current baseline.