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Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation
Overview
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-4).
■ Counters: Display details of traffic volume on individual ports (page
B-10).
■ Event Log: Lists switch operating events (“Using Logging To Identify
Problem Sources” on page C-22).
■ 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 12-18).
■ Port monitoring (mirroring): Copy all traffic from the specified ports
to a designated monitoring port (page B-23).
■ Chassis Locator LED: The blue Locator LED lights up when you enter
the chassislocate command (
Note Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are
described in chapter 18, “Troubleshooting”. See page C-34.