Cabletron Systems Ethernet Hubs Manual

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9030367 E7 Performance Views6-3Accessing the Device Performance ViewIRBM, IRM2, IRM3 and MiniMMAC HubsIRBM, IRM2, IRM3 and MiniMMAC HubsThe Performance View displays monitoring point performance statisticsgathered by SPECTRUM. These statistics include load, error rate, frame rateand collision rate. The banner across the top of the Performance View providesinformation about the monitoring point. The border color of the bannerindicates the device status. The banner area contains the following fields:NameThe user-defined or default name of the model.LocationThe location of the device as entered in the Creation dialog box when themodel was created. If no location has been specified, this field displays themodel name of the SPECTRUM location view containing the device.Network AddressThe network IP address of the device.Device TypeThe SPECTRUM Model Type (e.g., Hub_CSI_IRBM).System Up TimeThe time, displayed in days+hours:minutes:seconds, that the device has beenon-line.The Performance View includes a multi-attribute line graph that showsnetwork load in green, frame rate in blue, percent errors in orange and thepercent collisions in yellow. For the IRM2 and IRM3 hubs, the number ofactive users is shown in brown.Table 6-1 displays the categories of information supplied by the PerformanceView.Table 6-1. Multi-Attribute Line Graph DefinitionsStatistic DefinitionLoad Percentage of the bandwidth used by the device.Frame Rate Number of frames per second that are repeated by the device.% Errors Percentage of frames that are Error Frames.% Collisions Percentage of frames that are Collision Frames.Active Users (IRM2 and IRM3 only.) The number of active users seen bythis device.