eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by EthernetAggrTest

Link aggregation enables one or more network links to be aggregated together to form a link aggregation group. When network links are aggregated, more bandwidth resources become available to the network and load on the network can be uniformly distributed across the links. If one/more links in a group go down, it may limit the bandwidth resources available to the group and may even overload a few other links in the group. To avoid this, administrators must continuously track the state of every link within every aggregation group that is configured. This is where the EthernetAggrTest test helps!

This test periodically checks the status of each link aggregated within every link aggregation group and instantly alerts administrators when a link goes down or is in an unknown state. This way, the test enables administrators to ensure that all links in an aggregate group are available at all times for providing bandwidth resources and handling the network load.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
link Indicates the current status of this link within this link aggregation group.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Up 0
Down 1
Unknown 2

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values in the table above to indicate link status. In the graph of this measure however, the same is represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents only.

The detailed diagnosis of this test reveals the speed, operational state, and duplex state of a link.