Checking Port Status and Counters
17-26 Managing the Access Server
Example: SHOW PORT COUNTERS Display
The following example shows how to generate a port counters display:
Local> SHOW PORT 1 COUNTERS
Port 1: Joe Smith Server: Servername
Seconds Since Zeroed: 1182768 Local Accesses: 17
Framing Errors: 0 Remote Accesses: 0
Parity Errors: 0 Overrun Errors: 0
SHOW/MONITOR PORT COUNTERS Display Fields
The following table describes the information in the port counters display:
Field Description
Port
n
Number
n
of the port. The text that follows the number
of the port is any associated user name or the name of
the port as established for the port characteristic
NAME, if no user name was supplied.
Server Specifies a 1- to 16-character name for the access
server.
Seconds Since Zeroed Number of seconds since the counters were last set to
zero.
Framing Errors Number of bytes received at the port with illegally
formatted frames. If this value accumulates to greater
than about 20 errors per day on any one port, you
might have port line problems. Refer to the
troubleshooting procedures in the
Network Access
Server Problem Solving
manual.
Parity Errors Number of bytes received with parity errors at the
port. If this value accumulates to greater than about 20
errors per day on any one port, you might have port
line problems. Refer to the troubleshooting
procedures in the
Network Access Server Problem
Solving
manual.
