User`s manual

Viewing Port Statistics
Console version
To view statistics for any switch port, select Port Statistics from the Console Main Menu. This screen appears
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In the Port Number field, enter the number of the port whose statistics you want to see. The values
accumulated since the Switch was last turned on or reset appear in these status fields.
Receive Octets: Total number of octets received on this port.
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Receive Unicast Packets: The number of unicast packets received on this port.❍
Receive Multicast/Broadcast Packets: The number of multicast packets received on this port.❍
Receive Discards: The number of packets that were discarded once they were received on the
selected port because of a filtering decision.
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Receive Errors: The total number of errors received on this port. This is the sum of all individual
error counters for the port, such as crc, overflow, jabbers and fragments.
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Receive Runts: The number of interrupted packets received on the port. Runts are frames with
incorrect sizes or formats that are typically the result of collisions.
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Receive Unknown Protocols: The number of packets, received at the port, of protocol types that
this port has not been set to forward.
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Transmit Octets: The total number of octets forwarded through this port.❍
Transmit Unicast Packets: The number of unicast packets transmitted on this port.❍
Transmit Multicast/Broadcast Packets: The number of multicast packets forwarded over this
port.
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Transmit Discards: The number of packets received through the switching backplane that were
not transmitted out of the selected port because of a filtering decision.
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Transmit Errors: The total number of errors that have occurred on this port. This is the sum of
individual error counters for the port
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Select Reset to wipe out the existing statistics and return the counters to zero.2.
Select Refresh to refresh the screen.3.
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