Overview - HP procurve series 4100gl Management And Configuration Manual

Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Overview

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Overview

The Switch 4108GL has several built-in tools for monitoring, analyzing, and
troubleshooting switch and network operation:
I 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-3).
Counters: Display details of traffic volume on individual ports (page
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B-9).
I Event Log: Lists switch operating events ("Using the Event Log To
Identify Problem Sources" on page C-21).
I Alert Log: Lists network occurrences detected by the switch—in the
Status | Overview screen of the web browser interface (page 4-6).
Configurable trap receivers: Uses SNMP to enable management sta-
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tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch ("Trap
Receivers and Authentication Traps" on page 10-8).
I Port monitoring (mirroring): Copy all traffic from the specified ports
to a designated monitoring port (page B-23).
Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are
described in chapter 18, "Troubleshooting". See page C-24.