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Chapter 4

Analyze Network

Vitals

Select the VITALS button in the Bottom Area. The VITALS screen displays

Frame information in a List or Bar chart format. While in the List screen, it

displays how long the link has been connected (Elapsed Time) and time it

has unlinked (Time Unlinked) both in milliseconds. It also displays the

Maximum Frame Size received. This screen breaksdown the individual

frames collected into good and bad frames. The good frames are then

brokendown into unicast, multicast and broadcast with the amount of

frames detected of each. Each frame is shown as a percentage of the

entire network traffic.

List/Chart

Select LIST in the data action buttons. A bar chart describing good and

bad frames is displayed. These colored bars show the percentage of the

total frames received that are multicast or broadcast frames in relation to

the total frames. The bars are green if the frames are good and red if the

frames are bad. Each bar is logarithmically set in length and is horizontal

(there are 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 100% markers shown in the first line of the

data area which cannot be changed).

Select CHART in the Data Action buttons. The LIST will be displayed again

showing the good and bad frame counts and percentages.

Clear

Select CLEAR in the data action buttons to clear all the data received.

NOTE: Linked time will NOT be cleared because the link never discon-

nected

Example Vitals Screen