4-2Monitoring and Managing Your ELS100-16TXELS100-16TX statistics are divided into four groups:• System statistics• Ethernet port statistics• Traffic analysis statistics• SNMP statisticsYou can use this information to analyze your overall networkperformance and to make configuration changes as necessary. Forexample, Ethernet port statistics can help you identify networkdevices that require high bandwidth, and therefore should beconnected through a dedicated, rather than a shared, networkconnection. In addition, Ethernet port statistics can help youidentify a network device that is the source of numerous multicastpackets due to a possible malfunction.4.2.1 Gathering StatisticsFor purposes of network management, managed objects must beidentified. Creation of a managed object is achieved by placing itsidentifier, and a set of management information appropriate to itsclass, in the Management Information Database (MIB).Using the MIB variables, you can obtain a detailed analysis of yournetwork by combining statistics for each source network,destination network, and source and destination port. TheELS100-16TX Release Notes contain information on where to findthe SNMP MIB variables you need to monitor and manage theELS100-16TX.4.2.2 System StatisticsFor each ELS100-16TX, the following system statistics areavailable:• The number of seconds since the ELS100-16TX was last reset.
