General Purpose Ethernet Port Monitor
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When to use
The following procedure is performed when the user wants to enable the Ethernet Port
monitor on each LAN or WAN port, to set the threshold values and the granularity of
the monitored period.
Note: The General Purpose Ethernet Port Monitor procedure is also applicable to X5IP.
Related information
The items below list other relevant information to this procedure:
• Procedure to set the SDH TP Mode, for the required prior setting of the ports to be
monitored. Refer to “Provision ports” (p. 5-59).
• “Concepts” (p. 10-3)
• “Ethernet performance monitoring” (p. 10-12)
Before you begin
The items below gives information on tasks to perform before beginning the procedure:
• Proper LAN card must be installed in TS2 in order to be able to make performance
LAN measurements.
• A prerequisite for this procedure is to set the virtual switch in spanning tree mode
“Provisioning a virtual switch in spanning tree mode” (p. 8-105).
• Cross connection should be enabled and VCG should be set to monitored.
• LAN port should be changed to Network port role in the Virtual Switch
Information window.
Ethernet Port monitor
Follow this procedure in order to view the Port monitor counter and its threshold.
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1
Select Performance → PM TP Configuration.
Result: The Select Performance Monitoring Points window appears in the PM
Configuration mode.
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2
Select LAN for PM Point Type and select the Port and then click Add and Ok.
Result: The LAN port is enabled in the Active Performance Monitoring Point
List
window.
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3
Click Add.
Performance monitoring
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Issue 4, May 2007
Alcatel-Lucent - Proprietary
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