Configuring the Summary View

To configure the summary view in Device Manager, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Summary tab on the main display.
  2. Select a value from the Poll Interval drop-down list.
  3. Decide how you want your data to be interpreted by looking at the Show Rx/Tx drop-down menu. The table updates each polling interval to show an overview of the receive and transmit data for each active port on the switch.
  4. Select a value from the Show Rx/Tx drop-down list. If you select Util%, you need to also select values from the two Show Rx/Tx > %Util/sec drop-down lists. The first value is the warning level and the second value is the critical threshold level for event reporting.

Note that you can also display percent utilization for a single port by selecting the port and clicking the Monitor Selected Interface Traffic Util % icon.

  1. Click the Save Configuration icon.

The configurable monitor per port option gives statistics for in and out traffic on that port, errors, class 2 traffic and other data that can be graphed over a period of time to give a real-time view into the performance of the port.

To configure per port monitoring using Device Manager, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Device tab.
  2. Right-click the port you are interested in and choose Monitor from the drop-down menu.
  3. Select a value from the Interval drop-down list to determine how often data is updated in the table shown here.
  4. Click a statistical value in the table then click one of the graphing icons to display a running graph of that statistic over time. You see a graph window that contains options to change the graph type.
  5. Tip     You can open multiple graphs for statistics on any of the active ports on the switch.



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