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Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

The SMC6624M switch has several built-in tools for monitoring, analyzing, and
troubleshooting switch and network operation:

Status:

Includes options for displaying general switch information, man-

agement address data, port status, MAC addresses detected on each port,
and STP, IGMP, and VLAN data.

Counters:

Display details of traffic volume on individual ports.

Event Log

: Lists switch operating events.

Alert Log:

Lists network occurrences detected by the switch (in the

Status | Overview screen of the web browser interface).

Configurable trap receivers:

Uses SNMP to enable management sta-

tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch.

Port or VLAN monitoring (mirroring):

Copy all traffic from the spec-

ified ports or VLAN to a designated monitoring port.

N o t e

Link test, ping test, browse configuration, and the Command prompt—analysis
tools in troubleshooting situations—are described in chapter 11, “Trouble-
shooting”. See “Diagnostic Tools” on page 13.