OSA-Express7 Ports Summary workspace

The OSA-Express7 Ports Summary workspace displays performance data for the OSA-Express7 Ethernet adapters. The OSA-Express7 Ports Summary workspace is accessed only as a drill-down from the existing OSA Channels workspace. The drill-down link from the OSA Channels workspace is enabled only when the OSA channel Subtype attribute value defines the adapter as an OSA-Express7. The OSA channel Subtype attribute is a field contained in the OSA-Express Channels Summary table workspace.

To display the OSA-Express7 Ports Summary workspace, do the following:

  1. Click the OSA navigator item for a specific TCP/IP stack to display the OSA Channels workspace.
  2. If the value for the OSA channel Subtype attribute in the Ports Summary for Channel abc Summary table is osaexp5gigabitEthernet, osaexp5oneThousandBaseTEthernet, or osaexp5tenGigabitEthernet, right-click the Link icon by one of the rows of the Ports Summary for Channel xyz Summary table.
  3. Select OSA-Express7 Ports to display the OSA-Express7 Ports Summary workspace.

Note: Some OSA-Express7 Gigabit adapter can have two ports per OSA CHPID or four per physical card/feature.

The OSA-Express7 Ports Summary workspace contains the following views:

  • Current Packets: Displays the number of packets received or packets transmitted by the specified port over the current collection interval. The information is presented in a bar graph where:
    • Yellow represents the number of packets received over the current collection period
    • Blue represents the number of packets transmitted over the current collection period
    This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.
  • Current Good Packets: Displays the number of good (without error) packets transmitted with a length of >= 64 bytes and good (without error) packets of any length received by the specified port over the current collection interval. The information is presented in a bar graph where:
    • Yellow represents the number of good (without error) packets received over the current collection period.
    • Blue represents the number of good (without error) packets transmitted over the current collection period.
    This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.
  • Current Octets: Displays the number of octets received or octets transmitted by the specified port over the current collection interval. The information is presented in a bar graph where:
    • Yellow represents the number of octets received over the current collection period
    • Blue represents the number of octets transmitted over the current collection period
    This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.
  • Current Good Octets: Displays the number of octets received or octets transmitted by the specified port over the current collection interval. The information is presented in a bar graph where:
    • Yellow represents the number of good (without error) octets received over the current collection period
    • Blue represents the number of good (without error) octets transmitted over the current collection period
    This data applies to a channel selected from the OSA Channels workspace.
  • Ports Summary for Channel xyz Summary table: Provides summary data for the selected OSA-Express7 port summary data, where xyz is the selected channel number link attribute.