Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation
Overview
Overview
The Series 5300XL switches have several built-in tools for monitoring, analyz-
ing, and troubleshooting switch and network operation:
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-3).
Counters: Display details of traffic volume on individual ports (page
B-9).
Event Log: Lists switch operating events (“Using the Event Log To
Identify Problem Sources” on page C-22).
Alert Log: Lists network occurrences detected by the switch—in the
Status | Overview screen of the web browser interface (
page 4-15).
Configurable trap receivers: Uses SNMP to enable management sta-
tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch (
page 10-8).
Port monitoring (mirroring): Copy all traffic from the specified ports
to a designated monitoring port (
page B-22).
No t e Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are
described in appendix C, “Troubleshooting”. See
page C-27.
B-2
