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3-14 WS5100 Series Switch System Reference Guide

4. The

Status

is the current state of the requests made from the applet. Requests are any “SET/GET”

operation from the applet. The Status field displays error messages if something goes wrong in the
transaction between the applet and the switch.

5. Click on the

Refresh

button to refresh the port statistics.

6. Click on the

Close

button to exit out of the screen.

3.2.3.2 Viewing the Port Statistics Graph

The Web UI continuously collects data for port statistics. Even when the port statistics graph is closed, data
is still tallied. Periodically display the port statistics graph for assessing the latest information.

To view a detailed graph for a port:

1. Select a port from the table displayed in the Statistics screen.

2. Click the

Graph

button.

Output Unicast
Packets

Displays the number of unicast packets (packets directed towards a single destination
address) transmitted from the interface.

Output NonUnicast
Packets

Displays the number of unicast packets transmitted from the interface.

Output Total Packets

Displays the total number of packets transmitted from the interface.

Output Packets
Dropped

Displays the number of transmitted packets dropped at the interface. Output Packets
Dropped are the packets dropped when the output queue of the physical device associated
with interface is saturated.

Output Packets Error

Displays the number of transmitted packets with errors at the interface. Output Packet Errors
are the sum of all the output packet errors, malformed packets and misaligned packets
received on an interface.