86 Configuring and Managing Ports and VLANs
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To monitor port statistics, use the following command:
monitor port counters [octets | packets | receive-errors | transmit-errors | collisions |
receive-etherstats | transmit-etherstats]
Statistics types are displayed in the following order by default:
•Octets
•Packets
• Receive errors
• Transmit errors
• Collisions
• Receive Ethernet statistics
• Transmit Ethernet statistics
Each type of statistic is displayed separately. Press the Spacebar to cycle through the displays for each type.
If you use an option to specify a statistic type, the display begins with that statistic type. You can use one statistic option
with the command.
Use the keys listed in Table 4 to control the monitor display.
To monitor port statistics beginning with octet statistics (the default), type the following command:
23x0# monitor port counters
As soon as you press Enter, WSS Software clears the window and displays statistics at the top of the window. In this
example, the octet statistics are displayed first.
Port Status Rx Octets Tx Octets
===============================================================================
1 Up 27965420 34886544
...
To cycle the display to the next set of statistics, press the Spacebar. In this example, packet statistics are displayed next:
Port Status Rx Unicast Rx NonUnicast Tx Unicast Tx NonUnicast
===============================================================================
1 Up 54620 62144 68318 62556
...
(For information about the fields in the output, see the Nortel WLAN Security Switch 2300 Software Command
Reference.)
Table 4: Key Controls for Monitor Port Counters Display
Key Effect on monitor display
Spacebar Advances to the next statistics type.
Esc Exits the monitor. WSS Software stops displaying the statistics
and displays a new command prompt.
c Clears the statistics counters for the currently displayed statistics
type. The counters begin incrementing again.
