Upon selecting the Monitor CHARON NIC activity option from the menu, the following window will be displayed.
At this point it is possible to select one or more network adapters to monitor and click Next.
If this is a new monitoring session, it is usually a good idea to also click Reset Adapter Statistics. This will ensure that the statistics gathered are only relevant to the current gathered data.
NIC Activity Monitoring
The window shown below, is a live monitoring of the network interface activity counters. If multiple interfaces were selected for monitoring, use the dropdown box to select a different card to observe.
As well as observing the network activity counters in real time, it is also possible to log all network adapter activity counters at specific intervals to a file. To specify an interval, change the value labelled Log file write interval (sec), select a log file name and path by clicking Browse. Once the file name and interval are set, click Start logging. This will generate a tab delimited file. Each row contains the columns specified in the table below and is written at the specified interval.
| Number | Heading | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Date and time: | String |
| 2 | Adapter: | String |
| 3 | MAC Address: | String |
| 4 | Users: | Integer |
| 5 | Mode: | String |
| 6 | NIC_Carrier: | Integer |
| 7 | NIC_reset: | Integer |
| 8 | Pending_RX: | Integer |
| 9 | Pending_TX: | Integer |
| 10 | Served_RX: | Integer |
| 11 | Served_TX: | Integer |
| 12 | Failed_TX_IO: | Integer |
| 13 | Failed_TX_IR: | Integer |
| 14 | Failed_TX_RS | Integer |
| 15 | Failed_TX_BU | Integer |
| 16 | Failed_TX_DS | Integer |
| 17 | Failed_RX_IO: | Integer |
| 18 | Failed_RX_IR | Integer |
| 19 | Failed_RX_RS | Integer |
| 20 | Failed_RX_BU | Integer |
| 21 | Failed_RX_DS | Integer |
After gathering the required network adapter statistics, click Stop Logging to close the log file. Click Next to continue. At this point you will be presented with the Application log & results window. To view a more detailed version of the log file, select the Show detailed log checkbox. In the event that there was an error during the logging process, click Save Log in file and retain a copy for submission to Stromasys Technical Support.
To return to the main Network Control Center menu, click Finish.