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Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation
Overview
Overview
The switches covered in this guide have several built-in tools for monitoring,
analyzing, and troubleshooting 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-11).
■ Event Log: Lists switch operating events (“Using the Event Log for
Troubleshooting Switch Problems” on page C-24).
■ Alert Log: Lists network occurrences detected by the switch—in the
Status | Overview screen of the web browser interface (page 5-20).
■ Configurable trap receivers: Uses SNMP to enable management sta-
tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch. (Refer to
“SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c Traps” on page 13-20.)
■ Port monitoring (mirroring): Copy all traffic from the specified ports
to a designated monitoring port (page B-23).
Note Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are
described in Appendix C, “Troubleshooting”. Refer to “Diagnostic Tools” on
page C-56.