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How to read IFSTAT counters on your AFF/FAS systems

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Clustered Data ONTAP 8
  • Data ONTAP 7-mode

Description

Data ONTAP 7-mode

node_name> ifstat [ -z ] -a | <interface_name>

Clustered Data ONTAP 8 and ONTAP 9 

The command is executed from the Nodeshell of each node

cluster::> system node run -node <node_name> -command ifstat [ -z ] -a | <interface_name>

Output example

cluster::> system node run -node node_example> -command ifstat e0a

-- interface  e0a  (6 days, 19 hours, 46 minutes, 1 second) --

RECEIVE
 Frames/second:       6  | Bytes/second:      551  | Errors/minute:       0 
 Discards/minute:     0  | Total frames:      249k | Total bytes:     19489k
 Total errors:        0  | Total discards:      0  | Multi/broadcast:   235k
 No buffers:          0  | Non-primary u/c:     0  | L2 terminate:        0 
 Tag drop:            0  | Vlan tag drop:       0  | Vlan untag drop:     0 
 Vlan forwards:       0  | Vlan broadcasts:     0  | Vlan unicasts:       0 
 CRC errors:          0  | Alignment errors:    0  | Runt frames:         0 
 Long frames:         0  | Fragment:            0  | Jabber:              0 
 Xon:                 0  | Xoff:                0  | Ring full:           0 
 Jumbo:               0  | Jumbo error:         0  | Index error:         0 
 Force wakeup:        0 
TRANSMIT
 Frames/second:       4  | Bytes/second:      659  | Errors/minute:       0 
 Discards/minute:     0  | Total frames:    26386  | Total bytes:      2443k
 Total errors:        0  | Total discards:      0  | Multi/broadcast: 11256 
 Queue overflows:     0  | No buffers:          0  | Single collision:    0 
 Multi collisions:    0  | Late collisions:     0  | Max collisions:      0 
 Deferred:            0  | Xon:                 0  | Xoff:                0 
 MAC Internal:        0  | Jumbo:               0 
LINK_INFO
 Current state:       up | Up to downs:         0  | Speed:            1000m
 Duplex:            full | Flowcontrol:       full

Note:
  • The -z argument clears the statistics
  • The -a argument displays statistics for all network interfaces including the virtual host and the loopback address. Optionally, you can leave off the -a argument and specify the name of a network interface.

 

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