HP PROCURVE 2520, Management And Configuration Manual

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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-22 ) .
■ 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
“SNMP Management Features” on page 13-4.)
■ 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 (
N o t e
Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are
described in appendix C, “Troubleshooting”. Refer to “Diagnostic Tools” on
page C-49.
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