Monitoring EX4200 and EX4500 Virtual Chassis Status and Statistics

Purpose

Use the monitoring functionality to view the following information about EX4200 or EX4500 member switches and ports in a Virtual Chassis:

• Member details and how members are connected with each other
• Traffic statistics for Virtual Chassis ports of the selected members
• Details of the VCP packet counters

Action

To view Virtual Chassis monitoring details in the J-Web interface for a Virtual Chassis, select Monitor > Virtual Chassis.

Note: The J-Web interface is currently not supported for the EX3300 Virtual Chassis.

To view member details for all members in the CLI, enter the following command:

To view VCP traffic statistics for a specific member in the CLI, enter the following command:

To view the path a packet takes when going from a source interface to a destination interface in a Virtual Chassis configuration using the CLI, enter the following command:

Meaning

In the J-Web interface, the top half of the screen displays details of the Virtual Chassis configuration, such as:

• Member
• Role
• Interface
• Type
• Speed
• Neighboring Member ID
• Link Status
• Error count

Click the Stop button to stop fetching values from the switch, and click the Start button to start plotting data again from the point where it was stopped.

To view a graph of the statistics for the selected VCP of the member, click Show Graph.

Refresh Interval (sec)—Displays the time interval you have set for page refresh.

Click Clear Statistics to clear the monitoring statistics for the selected member switch. You can specify the interval at which the member details and statistics must be refreshed.

The bottom half of the screen displays a chart of the Virtual Chassis statistics and the port packet counters.

For details about the output from CLI commands, see the show virtual-chassis status and show virtual-chassis vc-port statistics command summaries.