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Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation
Overview
Monitoring and Analyzing
Switch Operation
Overview
The Series 2500 switches have 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.
Note Link test, ping test, browse configuration, and the Command prompt—analysis
tools in troubleshooting situations—are described in chapter 8, “Troubleshoot-
ing”. See “Diagnostic Tools” on page 14.
