OSA Ports Workspace
The OSA Ports workspace provides data on OSA port usage.
To display the OSA Ports workspace, do the following:
- Click the OSA navigator item for a specific TCP/IP
stack to display the OSA Channels workspace.
- If the value for the OSA channel Subtype attribute
in the Port Summary for Channel abc Table is gigabitEthernet, fastEthernet
or oneThousandBaseTEthernet, right-click the Link icon
by this table row.
- A conditional link is displayed in the list of available links. Select OSA Ports to navigate you to the OSA Ports workspace.
Summary information is provided in the Port Summary for Channel abc Table located
at the bottom of the workspace.
The OSA Ports workspace displays the following views:
- Current Packets: Displays the number of packets
either received by a specific port or transmitted by a specific port over
the current collection interval. The information is presented in a bar graph
where:
- Yellow represents the number of current packets out over the current collection
period.
- Blue represents the number of current packets in over the current collection
period.
This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.
- Current Broadcast Frames: Displays the number of
broadcast frames received by this port over the current collection interval.
The information is presented in a bar graph where yellow represents the number
of broadcast frames over the current collection period. This data applies
to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.
- Current Group Frames: Displays the number of group
frames received by this port over the current collection interval. The information
is presented in a bar graph where yellow represents the number of group frames
over the current collection period. This data applies to a channel selected
from the OSA Channels workspace.
- Current Unknown IP Frames: Displays the number of
packets that were discarded over the current collection interval because they
did not have a matching IP address and there was no primary nor secondary
router default defined. The information is presented in a bar graph where
yellow represents the number of unknown IP frames over the current collection
period
- Port Summary for Channel abc Table: Displays extensive data in tabular format
about OSA port usage, such as the port type, the state of the hardware, the
configuration speed, and the number of total packets. This data applies to
a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.
Port Summary for Channel abc Table
The Port Summary for Channel abc summary table
provides extensive data on OSA port usage, such as the port type, the state
of the hardware, the configuration speed, and the number of total packets.
This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.
For a complete list of the attributes available in the Port Summary for
Channel abc summary table, and a brief description
of each, see the OSA Express Ports Attributes help panel.
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