Finisar Surveyor, User Manual

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Views
Data Views
6
Network Layer Host Table View
From Detail View, click on the button to open a window with Network Layer
Host Table View. From Summary View, set the view preferences to
Network Layer
Host Table
to see this view in the first tab.
Network Layer Host Table View is available as a chart showing the ten network
stations with the most traffic or as a table showing all network stations. Click on the
tab at the bottom of the window to select
Table
or
Chart
.
The station address and name are provided in the table or chart. The name and
address will be the same if Surveyor does not have a name table with an address-to-
name correspondence for this station.
Chart
Network Layer Host Table View as a chart shows only ten network stations. The ten
stations displayed are those transmitting the largest relative percentage of frames.
The chart can be customized to show the “top ten” stations based on a different
station information field. The
Bar
and
Pie
buttons toggle the type of graphic display.
The Pause/Resume button allows you to pause or resume real-time update of the
graph.
Rel % Frames Out Percentage of frames sent by this MAC station relative to the total
number of frames
Bytes In Number of bytes received by the MAC station
Rel % Bytes In Percentage of bytes received by this MAC station relative to the total
number of bytes
Abs % Bytes In Percentage of bytes received by this MAC station relative to the total
network capacity (measured in bytes)
Avg. Size In Average number of bytes contained within frames received by the
MAC station
Bytes Out Number of bytes sent by the MAC station
Rel % Bytes Out Percentage of bytes sent by this MAC station relative to the total num-
ber of bytes
Abs % Bytes Out Percentage of bytes sent by this MAC station relative to the total net-
work capacity (measured in bytes)
Errors Out Number of transmittal errors generated by the MAC station
Broadcast Out Number of broadcast frames generated by the MAC station
Multicast Out Number of multicast frames generated by the MAC station
Table 6-11. Host Table View, Table Column Descriptions (continued)