HP TopTools for Hubs and Switches - Manual (Page 145)

Accessing Hub Features
Interpreting Device Status
12-5
Table 12-1. Gauge Attributes
Global Counters
Hub Global Counters
Selecting the Global Counters button displays a page listing eight counters and
their values since the last device reset. The counters are totals for the device.
To view counters by port, select the
Port Counters button.
Switching Hub Global Counters
The switching hubs display the counters as shown in the following figure.
Attribute Description Severity Values
Utilization% Represents the traffic on the port as a
percentage of the port’s bandwidth. Warning: 40%
Critical: 75%
Collisions% Represents the number of collisions that
have occurred expressed as a percentage of
the packets transmitted through the port. Warning: 30%
Critical: 50%
Broadcasts/sec Represents the number of broadcast packets
being transmitted through the port per
second. Warning: 150/sec
Critical: 400/sec
Errors% Represents the number of errors that have
occurred expressed as a percentage of the
total number of packets received through the
port. Warning: 0%-1%
Critical: 1%
Multicasts/sec Represents the number of multicast packets
being transmitted through the port per
second. Warning: 1500/sec
Critical: 4000/sec