Texas Instruments 990 User Manual page 182

Appl ications U til i ti es
5.5 STATISTICS PACKAGE
The statistics utility collects data and allows the user to view
the condi tion of the oommunications system. Certain memory areas
in the FCCC and the mai nf rame are us
ed
to store stati sti cal dat a.
The data stored is reset at communications system warm-start time
or
at
any time desi red
by
the operator. It is possi hIe to
accum ul at e st at i st i cal inf orm ati on f or any per i od of time
desi red. The pur pes e of the pac kage is to pro vi de dat a for
efficient network management, such as load distrihltion. The
ease of operation of the software makes it simple to determine
whether any changes in the network configuration have affected
network performance posi ti vel y or negati vel y.
The st ati sti cal dat a accum ul at
ed
i ncl udes the followi ng i terns:
*
Total mess ages, i l'lPlt and output
*
Message lengths, i nPlt and output
*
Buff er dat a:
Buffer count
Buffers available and/or allocated
*
Que ue dat a:
Que ue e ntr i es avai I abl e
Que ue entr ies us
ed
Que ue full counts
*
Res et and retr ansmi t counts:
Global (all st ati ons)
By st ation
*
Not ready- to- recei ve state counts:
Global (all st ati ons )
By station
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