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Chapter 14, Using the Secondary Panes in Xgig TraceView Using the Traffic Summary Pane
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Dynamic Counters for SAS/SATA Source and Destination Addresses
Address counters for source/destination addresses are dynamic, meaning counters are added for
each source address, destination address, or source/destination address-pair encountered in the
decode. The primary counter (for example,
Open Frames by Src Address
) is always counted and
displayed, but the sub-level counters of specific addresses only appear if an open frame with a
specific address or address-pair is encountered in the decode. This provides a count of open frames
by each address or address-pair. The primary counter is always the total of all dynamic counters
that are within its branch in the hierarchy.
The figure below shows an example of the open frame address counters displayed when addresses
and address-pairs are found in the decode. In the example only a single conversation is
represented. The list of source and destination addresses could be very long if many conversations
are encountered.
Figure 157: Example of Dynamic Address Counters