Can I use Toolbox to find out which ports are receiving frames with Bad FCS?
Yes – the Toolbox will use the SNMP Monitoring tool to gather this information from Switches, and when the associated SLA thresholds is breached it will issue an alarm to advise when you have excessive FCS errors on a port. FCS errors indicate Layer 1 physical errors. These are typically caused by bad cabling, bad connectors, electrical disturbance to the cabling or a Line card problem such as a defective port transceiver. Other causes are wrong cable type or cable is too long and out of spec. Can I used Toolbox to find out which ports are experiencing Collisions Yes- the Toolbox will use the SNMP Monitoring tool to gather this information from Switches, and when the associated SLA thresholds is breached it will issue an alarm to advise when you have excessive Collisions on a port. Collisions should normally not occur on Duplex Links so can indicate a link is running in half duplex when it should be duplex instead. Collisions normally occur in Half Duplex Links especially when connecte
