Viewing Traffic Trends in the Switch
You can view statistical information about how traffic is handled at the switch level.
These details are available for individual switches, stacks and switch groups.
- On the menu, click to display the Switches window.
- In the
Organization tab, select a or Switch Group and select the
Switch. In the Details tab,
click Traffic tab. The following information is displayed in the Traffic tab. You can view the traffic trend for the last 1 hour or 24 hours:
- Total Traffic Trend: Provides a graphical representation of the network traffic usage over a period of time in the switch or switch group. It also indicates the amount of traffic or data transmitted (tx) and received (rx) by the group in MB, at a certain time and date.
- Top Switch by Traffic: Provides a graphical representation of the top switches that handled maximum network traffic over a period of time, in the switch group. You can click on the switch address to view the traffic trend. This trend is only available for switch groups.
- Top Ports by Traffic: Provides a graphical representation of the top ports that handled maximum network traffic over a period of time, for a switch. You can click on the port address to view the traffic trend. This trend is only available for individual switches.
- Total Multicast Traffic Trend: Provides a graphical representation of the multicast traffic usage over a period of time in the switch or switch group. It also indicates the total number of incoming multicast data packets (multicastIn) and total number of outgoing multicast packets (multicastOut) by the group in MB, at a certain time and date.
- Total Unicast Traffic Trend: Provides a graphical representation of the unicast traffic usage over a period of time in the switch or switch group. It also indicates the total number of incoming unicast data packet (unicastIn) and total number of outgoing unicast packet (unicastOut) by the group in MB, at a certain time and date.
- Total Broadcast Traffic Trend: Provides a graphical representation of the broadcast traffic usage over a period of time in the switch or switch group. it also indicates the total number of incoming broadcast data packets (broadcastIn) and total number of outgoing broadcast packets (broadcastOut) by the group in MB, at a certain time and date.
- Total Port Errors: Provides a graphical representation of the port errors over a period of time in the switch or switch group. It also indicates the total number of inbound packets that contained errors (inErr) and total number of outbound packets that could not be transmitted because of errors (outErr) by the group in MB, at a certain time and date.
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