Chapter 7 System Status and Port Statistics

7.2 Port Status Summary

To view the port statistics, click Status in all web configurator screens to display the Status screen as shown next.

Figure 39 Status

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 7

Status

LABEL

 

DESCRIPTION

Port

 

This identifies the Ethernet port. Click a port number to display the Port

 

 

Details screen (refer to Figure 40 on page 96).

 

 

 

Name

 

This is the name you assigned to this port in the Basic Setting > Port

 

 

Setup screen.

 

 

 

Link

 

This field displays the speed (either 10M for 10Mbps, 100M for 100Mbps

 

 

or 1000M for 1000Mbps) and the duplex (F for full duplex or H for half).

 

 

It also shows the cable type (Copper or Fiber) for the combo ports.

 

 

 

State

 

If STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) is enabled, this field displays the STP

 

 

state of the port (see Section 13.1 on page 147 for more information).

 

 

If STP is disabled, this field displays FORWARDING if the link is up,

 

 

otherwise, it displays STOP.

 

 

 

LACP

 

This fields displays whether LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) has

 

 

been enabled on the port.

 

 

 

TxPkts

 

This field shows the number of transmitted frames on this port.

 

 

 

RxPkts

 

This field shows the number of received frames on this port.

 

 

 

Errors

 

This field shows the number of received errors on this port.

 

 

 

Tx KB/s

 

This field shows the number of kilobytes per second transmitted on this

 

 

port.

 

 

 

Rx KB/s

 

This field shows the number of kilobytes per second received on this port.

 

 

 

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