Overview – HP 2910AL User Manual
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Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation
Overview
Overview
The switches covered in this guide have several built-in tools for monitoring,
analyzing, and troubleshooting switch and network operation:
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Status:
Includes options for displaying general switch information, man
agement address data, port status, port and trunk group statistics, MAC
addresses detected on each port or VLAN, and STP, IGMP, and VLAN data
(page B-4)
.
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Counters:
Display details of traffic volume on individual ports (page
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Event Log
: Lists switch operating events (“Using the Event Log for
Troubleshooting Switch Problems” on page C-26).
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Alert Log:
Lists network occurrences detected by the switch—in the
Status | Overview screen of the web browser interface (page 5-21).
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Configurable trap receivers:
Uses SNMP to enable management sta
tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch. (Refer to
“SNMP Management Features” on page 14-4.)
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Port monitoring (mirroring):
Copy all traffic from the specified ports
to a designated monitoring port (page B-24).
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Chassis Locator LED:
The blue Locator LED lights up when you enter
the
chassislocate command (
N o t e
Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are
described in appendix C, “Troubleshooting”. Refer to “Diagnostic Tools” on
page C-59.
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