Cabletron Systems ELS10-26TX User Manual

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Monitoring and Managing Your ELS10-26

ELS10-26 statistics are divided into four groups:

 • System statistics

 • Ethernet port statistics

 • Traffic analysis statistics

 • SNMP statistics

You can use this information to analyze your overall network 
performance and to make configuration changes as necessary. For 
example, Ethernet port statistics can help you identify network 
devices that require high bandwidth, and therefore should be 
connected through a dedicated, rather than a shared, network 
connection. In addition, Ethernet port statistics can help you 
identify a network device that is the source of numerous multicast 
packets due to a possible malfunction.

For purposes of network management, managed objects must be 
identified. Creation of a managed object is achieved by placing its 
identifier, and a set of management information appropriate to its 
class, in the Management Information Database (MIB).

Using the MIB variables, you can obtain a detailed analysis of your 
network by combining statistics for each source network, 
destination network, and source and destination port. The     
ELS10-26 MIB Reference Guide contains the SNMP MIB variables 
you need to monitor and manage the ELS10-26.

For each ELS10-26, the following system statistics are available:

 • The number of seconds since the ELS10-26 was last reset.

 • The number of spanning tree topology changes that have 

occurred since the ELS10-26 was last reset.