Overview - HP ProCurve Series 4100GL Management And Configuration Manual

Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Overview

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Overview

The switch has several built-in tools for monitoring, analyzing, and trouble-
shooting 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-3).
Counters: Display details of traffic volume on individual ports (page
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B-9).
■ Event Log: Lists switch operating events ("Using Logging To Identify
Problem Sources" on page C-21).
Alert Log: Lists network occurrences detected by the switch—in the
■
Status | Overview screen of the web browser interface (page 5-6).
■ Configurable trap receivers: Uses SNMP to enable management sta­
tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch ("SNMP
Notification and Traps" on page 11-17).
■ 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-31.