Documentation forEngineer's Toolset

Real Time Interface Monitor

The Real Time Interface Monitor simultaneously displays statistics from routers and switches. You can select from over 30 statistics grouping which include over 400 standard and proprietary statistics. Following is a list of statistics groups:

  • Traffic
  • Interface/Port status
  • Broadcast/Multicast
  • Errors/Discards
  • Interface/Port configuration
  • Time data was last Received/Transmitted
  • ARP cache
  • Ethernet statistics
  • Ethernet collisions
  • Token ring statistics
  • ATM AAL5 traffic
  • Frame relay configuration
  • Frame relay traffic
  • DS1 line status
  • DS1 last 15 minutes snapshot
  • ADSL configuration
  • AppleTalk configuration
  • 802.11 access point configuration
  • 802.11 access point power levels
  • 802.11 frame rates
  • 802.11 access point last client
  • 802.11 access point antennas
  • Wireless clients (Cisco APs)
  • Wireless access point SSID (Cisco APs)
  • Wireless bridges and repeaters (Cisco APs)
  • ISDN line configuration
  • Traffic rates (Cisco only)
  • Queue errors (Cisco only)
  • Slow vs. Fast switching
  • Protocols (Cisco only)
  • IGRP settings
  • Cisco discover protocol

All of these groups contain statistics specific to the grouping and baseline the statistics, when . For example, in the Traffic grouping, the receive and transmit percent utilization statistics need a baseline before they can be displayed. Baselines are taken automatically. Updates to statistics occur every 30 seconds, by default.