Advanced Reference Guide
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Fast SwitcHub-8mi SNMP
Displaying Statistics and Configuration Data
Displaying a Description of the Switch
Use the System Information screen to display descriptive information about the switch, or
for quick system identification. This screen is detailed in the figure below and the following
table describing the displayed parameters:
System Information
System Description Intelligent Fast Ethernet Switch
MAC Address 00:00:E8:44:20:04
Interface Description Accton MPX2 Ver 1.0
System Name Fast SwitcHub-8mi SNMP
System Location MIS
System Contact Accton Technical Support Dept.
System Up Time 19Day, 2Hr, 41Min, 5Sec
No of Reset Since Power On 1
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Parameter
Description
System Description
System hardware description.
MAC Address
Hardware address for the switch.
Interface Description
Firmware name and version used in transceiver chips.
System Name
Name assigned to the switch system (maximum 30 characters).
System Location
Specifies the area or location where the system resides (maximum 30
characters).
System Contact
Contact person for the system (maximum 30 characters).
System Up Time
Length of time the switch management agent has been running.
No. of Reset Since Power On Number of times the switch has been reset.
Displaying Switch and Port Statistics
Use the Statistics screen to display key statistics for each port or the whole switch. The
Statistics screen displays overall statistics on the traffic passing through each port, as well
as the number of currently active stations. This information can be used to identify potential
problems with the switch (e.g., a faulty port). The values displayed have been accumulated
since the last system reboot or counter reset.
Use the command options provided by the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. Select
"Display" to view statistics for each individual port or the whole switch, or "Refresh" to
update the displayed statistics from the MIB. Statistical values displayed by this screen are
indicated in the following figure and table.
Statistics
Time Since Last Reset Port 1 Statisitcs: 11Day 10Hr 30Min 30Sec
No of Reset Port 1 Statistics Since Power On: 1
Local Frames Received 3244 CRC Errors 205
Forwarded Frames 1234 Input Queue Frame Lost 0
Learning Broadcast Frames 12 Output Queue Frame Lost 0
Long Frames 39 No of Frames in Input Queue 20
Short Frames 19 No of Frames in Output Queue 6
Collisions 205 Currently Active Stations 86
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Name
Description
Local Frames Received
Number of frames confined to this segment and not forwarded by the
switch.
Forwarded Frames
Number of frames forwarded to another segment.
Learning Broadcast Frames
Number of learning broadcast frames received on this port.
Long Frames
Number of times frame length has exceeded the maximum allowable
size (i.e., 1518 bytes).
Short Frames
Number of frames less than 64 bytes long.
Collisions
Number of simultaneous node transmissions detected by this port.
CRC Errors
Number of CRC errors.
Input Queue Frame Lost
Number of frames lost because the input queue is full.
Output Queue Frame Lost
Number of frames lost because the output queue is full.
No. of Frames in Input Queue
Number of frames in the input queue.
No. of Frames in Output Queue Number of frames in the output queue.
Currently Active Stations
Number of entries in the address table (i.e., the sum of all stations listed
by this port, regardless of whether they belong to the local segment or to
another segment).
