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To gather neighbor station statistics, To request information from the local agent – Sun Microsystems 1.0 User Manual

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To Gather Neighbor Station Statistics

Use the SunFDDI/P local agent to recover a snapshot of the current state of the
neighboring FDDI stations:

1. Click SELECT on the icon for the FDDI station that you want to

interrogate.

2. Press MENU on the Requests menu button and release MENU on the

Quick Dump item.

3. Choose

pf_fddi

as the Agent Schema and

route

as the Group.

4. Click SELECT on Apply to display neighbor station statistics similar to

those shown in Figure 9-2.

Figure 9-2

Quick Dump (Neighbor Statistics)

To Request Information from the Local Agent

Use the console to create a request for data that is sent periodically to

the SunFDDI/P local agent.
This is similar to running the

pf_stat(1M)

utility and specifying an

and as described in “Displaying SunFDDI/P Statistics
(pf_stat)” on page 87.

The local agent responds with the requested information, which can be
saved to file or displayed using the SunNet Manager Grapher.