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Displaying Status Information

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Using the various commands and utilities available to you, you can obtain status displays on nearly every aspect of NS 3000/iX. Status displays can help you identify the entities of your network that are currently active or in use. They can also help you diagnose deficiencies in the configured resources that are required for network traffic, such as transmission buffers.

The LINKCONTROL STATUS, NETCONTROL STATUS, and NSCONTROL STATUS commands allow you to display status information about the link, network transport, and services, respectively. The STATUS tool available as part of NETTOOL allows you to display status of the network interfaces and their associated links.

Display Link Status

You can display various levels of status information for a link on the local node using the LINKCONTROL STATUS command.

To display all available status information about a link on the local node called SYSLINK, enter the following command:

LINKCONTROL SYSLINK;STATUS=All

See Chapter 7 "Commands" for more information on using LINKCONTROL. See Appendix A "LINKCONTROL Command" for information on the LINKCONTROL status displays.

You can also use NETTOOL STATUS to display link status. See Chapter 6 "Using NETTOOL" for information on running NETTOOL STATUS.

Display Network Transport Status

You can display network transport status for a specific network interface or protocol configured on the local node using the NETCONTROL STATUS command. You can also use this command to display only general transport information. In all cases, if the entity is not active, NS 3000/iX will display a warning message telling you that the entity is inactive.

Display General Transport Status

To display the status of the general transport, enter the following command at the MPE prompt:

NETCONTROL STATUS

Display Status of a NET

To display the status of a NET configured as LAN1, enter the following command at the MPE prompt:

NETCONTROL STATUS;NET=LAN1

Display Status of an NI

To display the status of an NI configured as LAN1, enter the following command at the MPE prompt:

NETCONTROL STATUS;NI=LAN1

Display Protocol Status

You can display the status of a general protocol (TCP or PXP), or of a network interface protocol (PROBE, ARP, IP, DIAL or X25) by using the PROT= keyword.

To display the status of the ARP protocol on the LAN1 NI, you would enter the following command at the MPE prompt:

NETCONTROL STATUS;NI=LAN1;PROT=ARP

Display Network Services

For the Network Services, you can display the status of users, services, or servers.

Display Active Services

To display the services that are currently enabled on the local node, enter the following command at the MPE prompt:

NSCONTROL STATUS=SERVICES

Display Active Users

To display the number of active users of the Network Services on the local node, enter the following command at the MPE prompt:

NSCONTROL STATUS=USERS

Display Servers

The servers are the processes that are available to control the network services. You may need to alter the minimum or maximum number of servers available.

To see status information about the available servers, enter the following command at the MPE prompt:

NSCONTROL STATUS=SERVERS

Displaying Configuration Information

Displaying Network Performance Information