HP Hub & Switch Management for OV-UX - Manual (Page 38)

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Hub Global Counters
Selecting the Global Counters button displays a page listing eight counters
and their values since the last device reset. The counters are totals for the
device. To view counters by port, select the Port Counters tab.
Switching Hub Global Counters
The switching hubs display the counters described in the following table.
Table 6-1. Gauge Attributes for Hubs
Attribute Description Severity Values
Utilization% Represents the traffic on the port as a
percentage of the port’s bandwidth. Warning: 40%
Critical: 75%
Collisions% Represents the number of collisions that have
occurred expressed as a percentage of the
packets transmitted through the port. Warning: 30%
Critical: 50%
Broadcasts/sec Represents the number of broadcast packets
being transmitted through the port per second. Warning: 150/sec
Critical: 400/sec
Errors% Represents the number of errors that have
occurred expressed as a percentage of the
total number of packets received through the
port. Warning: 0%-1%
Critical: 1%
Multicasts/sec Represents the number of multicast packets
being transmitted through the port per second. Warning: 1500/
sec
Critical: 4000/sec
Table 6-2. Switching Hub Global Counters
Counter Description
Total Packets Total number of packets (including bad packets, broadcast
packets, and multicast packets) received.