Viewing Statistics; Rlp Health - Cabletron Systems SPECTRUM 1800 User Manual

Using the FRX4000, FRX6000, and SmartSwitch 1800 Hub View
Address:
For an FRX6000 with two LAN cards of the same type, note that the only way to
distinguish between the two cards is via the physical address displayed here (since
TIP
indexing is unrelated to physical position in the chassis).

Viewing Statistics

The Hub View can provide a variety of statistics at the RLP, serial port, and LAN
card levels that give you an overview of the general health of your network
connections. These statistics are described in the following sections.
The statistics windows provided via the Hub View display data using the SPMA Meters
application; for more information on how to manipulate the meter display and change
TIP
meter settings, see the SPMA Tools Guide.

RLP Health

To access RLP Health statistics:
1. In the Hub View, click on the appropriate Module Index or Module Name text
2. Drag down to Health, and release. The RLP Health Statistics window,
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For Token Ring LAN cards, this Þeld displays the locally
administered physical address, if one has been assigned;
if none has been assigned, the Þeld (labeled Local Admin
Address) will displays all zeros. For Ethernet cards, the
factory-set physical address (labeled Physical Address)
will be displayed.
box to display the RLP Menu (see
Figure 2-12, will appear.
Figure 2-3, page 2-6).
Monitoring Hub Performance