eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by RZDEthernetTest

The Ruckus ZoneDirector is provided with two Ethernet ports that are used to establish connection between the ZoneDirector and Access Points (APs). Each Ethernet port can be connected to a separate AP. Availability and operability of the ports are important for active and healthy communication between the ZoneDirector and the APs. If the ports are down due to overloaded requests or huge number of packets are dropped at the ports, then the functionality and reliability of the ports become questionable. This brings all traffic a near halt and directly affects the communication between the ZoneDirector and the APs. To avoid such eventualities, administrator should keep track on traffic flowing through the ports so as to ensure reliable communication between the ZoneDirector and the APs.

This test auto-discovers the Ethernet ports on the ZoneDirector and reveals the current state of each port. In the process, this test reports the amount of data received/transmitted per second, the count of packets transmitted/received per second and the number of packets dropped per second during transmission/reception of packets through each port. In addition, this test also sheds lights on the utilization of each port.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the each Ethernet port available on the target Ruckus ZoneDirector being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Ethernet_status Indicates the current status of this Ethernet port.   The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Up 1
Down 2

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the current state of this port. The graph of this measure however, represents the status of a resource using the numeric equivalents only - 1 and 2.

Transmitted_packet Indicates the rate at which the packets were transmitted through this port. Packets/Sec  
Received_packet Indicates the rate at which the packets were received through this port. Packets/Sec  
Transmitted_Data Indicates the rate at which the data was transmitted through this port. MB/Sec  
Received_Data Indicates the rate at which the data was received through this port. MB/Sec  
Drop_packet_transmitted Indicates the number of packets dropped per second during transmission through this port. Packets/Sec  
Drop_packet_received Indicates the number of packets dropped per second during reception through this port. Packets/Sec
Ethernet_utilization Indicates the utilization percentage of this port. Percent A value close to 100 is a cause for concern.