Viewing Stp Statistics; Clearing Statistics; Rmon Support - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

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RMON support

Viewing STP statistics

You can view a summary of STP statistics for the BigIron RX. STP statistics are by default polled
every 10 seconds.
To view spanning tree statistics, enter the show span command. To view STP statistics for a VLAN,
enter the span vlan command.

Clearing statistics

You can clear statistics for many parameters with the clear option.
To determine the available clear commands for the system, enter the following command.
BigIron RX# clear ?
Syntax: clear <option>
You also can enter "clear" at the command prompt, then press the TAB key.
NOTE
Clear commands are found at the Privileged EXEC level.
RMON support
The Brocade RMON agent supports the following groups. The group numbers come from the RMON
specification (RFC 1757):
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The CLI allows you to make configuration changes to the control data for these groups, but you
need a separate RMON application to view and display the data graphically.
Statistics (RMON group 1)
Count information on multicast and broadcast packets, total packets sent, undersized and
oversized packets, CRC alignment errors, jabbers, collision, fragments and dropped events is
collected for each port on a BigIron RX.
No configuration is required to activate collection of statistics for the BigIron RX. This activity is by
default automatically activated at system start-up.
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Statistics (RMON Group 1)
History (RMON Group 2)
Alarms (RMON Group 3)
Events (RMON Group 9)
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