Using The Traffic Summary Pane - Viavi Xgig User Manual

Chapter 14, Using the Secondary Panes in Xgig TraceView

Using the Traffic Summary Pane

The Traffic Summary pane shows metrics of errors, OOB events, speed negotiation events,
primitives, ordered sets, and frames in a hierarchy. There is one Traffic Summary panel per
physical layer protocol. If a trace contains Traffic Summary data for more than one protocol, the
panel will contain a tab for each protocol.
For each panel, you can expand or collapse the tree to see the counts at different levels of
granularity. For each of the metrics, the count for each port is shown in a separate column.
Traffic Summary data is generated on the blade when the trace is captured. The Traffic Summary
data remains in the hardware as long as the trace data remains in the hardware. When you extract a
subsection of the trace, the relevant traffic summary data is also extracted. Only traces captured
using Xgig Analyzer 4.3 or higher for SAS/SATA and 4.5 or higher for Fibre Channel will contain
the Traffic Summary data. If the trace does not have Traffic Summary data, the Traffic Summary
pane will not display and the
Traffic Summary data capture is supported for 6G and 12G SAS/SATA traffic and for Fibre
Channel traffic captured on an 8G Xgig blade, a 16G Xgig5000 blade, or 16G ports on Xgig1000
systems.
You can select a cell in the metrics grid and use the toolbar controls to navigate to any occurrence
of that event. You can also go to any arbitrary occurrence just by typing the number of the
occurrence in the toolbar. When you navigate to an event, both the main decode grid and the
Dword grid will be scrolled to the point of time at which that event occurred.
Use the
Show Pane
Summary pane.
Two examples of the TraceView main window are shown below. Figure 152 shows a SAS/SATA
trace. See
Summary SAS/SATA metrics. Figure 153 shows a Fibre Channel trace. See
Fibre Channel Counters" on page 355
336
Traffic Summary
option from the
"Traffic Summary SAS/SATA Counters" on page 342
option in the View
View > Traffic Summary
for a description of Fibre Channel Traffic Summary metrics.
Using the Traffic Summary Pane
menu will be grayed out.
menu to show/hide the Traffic
for a description of Traffic
"Traffic Summary
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