The Network workspace has three views
The bar chart displays network input errors, output errors, and collisions allowing you a quick glance at potentially severe network problems.
The Frames Transfer chart displays graphically the frames received and frames transmitted on each network card.
The Received Count (Frames) and Transmitted Count (Frames) show the raw frame counts for the interface. Frames and packets are not necessarily the same thing.
System administrators may define the interface so that multiple frames are sent or received in a packet. The network report and the network attributes display frame counts.
The Network Info report contains monitored data that helps you see your overall network performance, and supplies you with information about network interfaces on your monitored UNIX systems.
Using this real time network information, you can:
Fine-tune your network by allowing you to pinpoint bottlenecks in network traffic so your system administrator can reroute jobs to avoid them
The UNIX Network report contains numerical attributes that report the changing interface workload throughout each workday. This information allows your system administrator to see the ebb and flow of network traffic.
The UNIX Network report helps you:
See how much data your network interfaces transmit and receive
Identify network interfaces
Determine whether the interfaces are operational
View the amount of data traffic that flows through interfaces
Justify rerouting network data traffic, if necessary
Suppose users are complaining that they are having trouble accessing an Ethernet network that connects to other networks in your system. Use the UNIX Network report to view the gateway or router that connects to Ethernet in question. By viewing data received and transmitted through this gateway or router, you can determine if it is working properly.
If the router is overloaded, you may want to view other routers or gateways to see which ones are available, and re-route data traffic to one with a lighter workload.
You can also view the UNIX Network report to view information about collisions on a particular network interface. If the number of collisions is high, this may indicate that the capacity of the network hardware has been reached.
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