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Monitoring the DSL Router
5
What to Monitor
This chapter presents information on how to access and monitor the Hotwire DSL
Router’s status and performance statistics. You can monitor DSL router
operations by viewing:
H LEDs on the DSL router’s front panel.
H DSL Router Interfaces Status, including DSL and Ethernet LED status.
H DSL Router Statistics, including DSL Service Domain, DSL Management
Domain, Ethernet, and IP statistics.
H DSL Router SNMP traps.
Detecting Problems
The DSL router can detect and report problem conditions and the user can
perform diagnostic tests. The DSL router offers a number of indicators to alert
you to possible problems:
H LEDs provide status. Refer to
Status LEDs
in the Hotwire DSL Router
Installation Instructions for LED indications and troubleshooting of the
hardware installation.
H Status messages for both the Ethernet and DSL links. Refer to
Status of
Interfaces
on page 5-2.
H Network performance statistics for both the Ethernet and DSL links. Refer to
Interface Statistics
on page 5-3.
H Current status of DSL Router SNMP traps, if enabled. Refer to Appendix C,
Traps & MIBs
.
For additional information regarding diagnostic tests, System Log messages, and
troubleshooting, refer to Chapter 6,
Diagnostics and Troubleshooting.
