OSA Ports Workspace

The OSA Ports workspace provides data on OSA port usage.

This workspace is displayed by right-clicking on the link icon for a specific channel in the OSA Express Channels Summary Table.

Summary information is provided in the OSA Express Ports Summary Table located at the bottom of the workspace. The bar charts in this workspace are:

Current Packets Panel

The Current Packets panel contains the number of packets either received by a specific port or sent by a specific port over the current collection interval. This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.

Current Broadcast Frames Panel

The Current Broadcast Frames panel contains the number of broadcast frames received by this port over the current collection interval. This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.

Current Group Frames Panel

The Current Group Frames panel contains the number of group frames received by this port over the current collection interval. This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.

Current Unknown IP Frames Panel

The Current Unknown IP Frames panel shows 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.

This object is not supported for Fast Ethernet adapters so the value is zero over the current collection interval.

OSA Express Ports Summary Table

The OSA Express Ports 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 OSA Express Ports summary table, and a brief description of each, see the Express Ports Attributes help panel.

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