Conference azur::mcc

    Which line on the DECbridge 500 are you doing the statistics on?

    Since the bridge only has one ethernet port, line 2, thats the line I
    was trying to get the statistics for.
    
    Steve

Hi Steve,

There are some issues around certain firmware versions not handling the line
counters correctly on the 500 and 600 series.

Could you post the following here so I can investigate further:


1) mcc>show bridge <bridge_name> software version

2) mcc>show bridge <bridge_name> line 2 all counters

3) mcc>show bridge <bridge_name> line 2 all statistics


Thanks,

Bob

Hi Steve,

One more question I forgot to ask:

Is this a DECbridge 500 or DECbridge 5xx?

The command:

mcc>show bridge <bridge_name> hardware type

will indicate the exact model.

Thanks,

Bob

Bob, 
    
    Ask and you shall receive, hope this will help isolate the problem.
    
    Steve
    
show bridge nsu_lb500_1 software version
!
!Bridge KEROON_NS:.nsu_lb500_1 
!AT  1-JUN-1992 06:15:25 Characteristics
!
!                       Software Version = "V3.0"
!
show bridge nsu_lb500_1 line 2 all count
!
!Bridge KEROON_NS:.nsu_lb500_1 LINE 2 
!AT  1-JUN-1992 06:15:41 Counters
!
!Examination of attributes shows:
!                  Counter Creation Time = 29-MAY-1992 12:30:45.29
!                          Port Restarts = 0
!                  Total Frames Received = 8433166 Frames
!                   Total Bytes Received = 5433396241 Bytes
!                 Device Frames Received = 0 Frames
!                  Device Bytes Received = 0 Bytes
!              Multicast Frames Received = 271425 Frames
!               Multicast Bytes Received = 36838916 Bytes
!                      Total Frames Sent = 1454592 Frames
!                     Device Frames Sent = 0 Frames
!                      Device Bytes Sent = 0 Bytes
!                  Multicast Frames Sent = 1082712 Frames
!                    Bad Frames Received = 0 Frames
!                   Transmit Frames Lost = 0 Frames
!               Lifetime Exceeded Frames = 0 Frames
!                    Receive Frames Lost = 0 Frames
!                        Frames Filtered = 7811646 Frames
!                         Bytes Filtered = 0 Bytes
!                       Receive Overruns = 0 Frames
!               Forwarding State Entered = 1
!                Invalid Device Messages = 0 Frames
!              Bad Hellos Limit Exceeded = 0
!              Multicast Frames Filtered = 19 Frames
!       Multicast Device Frames Received = 0 Frames
!           Multicast Device Frames Sent = 223795 Frames
!                     Device Frames Lost = 0 Frames
!                  Transmit Error Frames = 0 Frames
!                     Bad Bytes Received = 0 Bytes
!       Multicast Source Frames Received = 0 Frames
!                   Transmit Error Bytes = 0 Bytes
!                   Invalid Device Bytes = 0 Bytes
!        Multicast Device Bytes Received = 0 Bytes
!            Multicast Device Bytes Sent = 14355841 Bytes
!                        Oversize Frames = 0 Frames
!                         Framing Errors = 0
!           Transmit Multiple Collisions = 245
!                           Carrier Lost = 0
!               Collision Limit Exceeded = 0
! Unknown Destination Addresses Received = 806
!              Frames Addressed Filtered = 7811646 Frames
!               Bytes Addressed Filtered = 0 Bytes
!         Collision Presence Test Failed = 420409
!                           Length Error = 0
!
show bridge nsu_lb500_1 line 2 all stati
!
!Bridge KEROON_NS:.nsu_lb500_1 LINE 2 
!AT  1-JUN-1992 06:16:55 Statistics
!
!Examination of attributes shows:
!                               Duration = 59 Seconds
!             Count of Total Frames Sent = 285
!         Count of Total Frames Received = 133
!              Originating Bridge Frames = 0 Percent
!              Terminating Bridge Frames = 0 Percent
!                        Filtered Frames = 50.38 Percent
!                    Network Utilization = -- Attribute Not Available
!                  Multicast Utilization = -- Attribute Not Available
!         Single Destination Utilization = -- Attribute Not Available
!          Single Destination Throughput = 18.18 Percent
!                  Multicast Throuhghput = 81.82 Percent
!                             Bad Frames = 0 Percent
!     Frames Discarded Lifetime Exceeded = 0 Percent
!Frames Received with Unknown Destination Addresses = 0 Percent
!                    Inbound Frames Lost = 0 Percent
!                   Outbound Frames Lost = 0 Percent
!     Count of Invalid Protocol Messages = 0
!                          Error Percent = 0 Percent
!
use log off
!
    

    Bob,
    
    It is a DECbridge 500, not a 5xx,
    
    Steve

The DECbridge 500 with software version 3.0 does not return the following 
line counters:

Total Bytes Sent
Multicast Bytes Sent

These counters are needed to compute the network, multicast, and single
destination utilization statistics.   I have reported this problem to
the bridge firmware developers.  

Regards,

Bob

    This brings up a need for a future feature.  Firmware problems in
    agents will always happen.  When pre-programmed statistics don't work,
    the user is confused.  The ability to hit some kind of help key, and
    get the equation being used would allow the user to go poke the agent
    for those specific attributes to help figure out what is wrong.  As
    user defined statistics are supported (hint: marketing requirement for
    next release) - this feature would be of even more use.
    
    bill

    Will the ELM release notes for V1.2 note that statistics for the
    DECbridge 500 will not work due to the DECbridge 500 firmware??
    
    Steve

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Yes it will be reflected in the release notes