Overview - HP ProCurve Management And Configuration Manual

Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Overview

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Overview
The switches covered in this guide have several built-in tools for monitoring,
analyzing, and troubleshooting switch and network operation:
■ Status: Includes options for displaying general switch information, man­
agement address data, port status, port and trunk group statistics, MAC
addresses detected on each port or VLAN, and STP, IGMP, and VLAN data
(page B-5).
Counters: Display details of traffic volume on individual ports (page
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B-12).
■ Event Log: Lists switch operating events ("Using the Event Log To
Identify Problem Sources" on page C-26).
Alert Log: Lists network occurrences detected by the switch—in the
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Status | Overview screen of the web browser interface (page 5-20).
■ Configurable trap receivers: Uses SNMP to enable management sta­
tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch. (Refer to
"SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c Trap Features" on page 14-19.)
■ Port monitoring (mirroring): Copy all traffic from the specified ports
to a designated monitoring port (page B-24).
Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are
described in Appendix C, "Troubleshooting". Refer to "Diagnostic Tools" on
page C-45.