Viewing OSPF status

View OSPF status.

Procedure

In the navigation pane, expand Configuration > IP .
Click OSPF.
Click the Stats tab.

Viewing OSPF status graphs

View OSPF status graphs. The graph formats available are: line chart, area chart, bar chart, and pie chart.

Procedure

In the navigation pane, expand Configuration > IP
Click OSPF.
Click the Stats tab.
(Optional) To refresh the values in the table, click Clear Counters.

To specify the polling interval, from the Poll Interval drop down menu, select a value. The options are:

Option	Description
5s	The polling interval is 5 seconds.
10s	The polling interval is 10 seconds.
30s	The polling interval is 30 seconds.
1m	The polling interval is 1 minute.
5m	The polling interval is 5 minutes.
30m	The polling interval is 30 minutes.
1h	The polling interval is 1 hour.

Select one value; for example, AbsoluteValue or Cumulative.
- Or, select two values; for example, AbsoluteValue and Cumulative.
To select a second value, press the Ctrl key, then select the second value. You cannot select more than two values.

From the toolbar, click a chart icon. The options are:

Option	Description
Line Chart	Displays a line chart for the values you selected against the polling interval. The X axis represents time. The vertical axis represents the logging scale.
Area Chart	Displays an area chart for the values you selected against the polling interval. The X axis represents time. The vertical axis represents the logging scale.
Bar Chart	Displays a bar chart for the values you selected against the polling interval. The X axis represents time. The vertical axis represents the logging scale.
Pie Chart	Displays a pie chart for the values you selected against the polling interval.

The Chart Legend uses different colors to identify the values you selected that are plotted on the graph.

To switch the horizontal and vertical axes values, on the chart toolbar, click Horizontal.
To switch views of the log scale from high to low values, or low to high values, on the chart toolbar, click Log Scale.
To switch to another chart using the same values, on the chart toolbar, click a chart icon.

Stats field descriptions

Use the data in the following table to use the OSPF Stats tab.


Name	Description
AbsoluteValue	Displays the counter value.
Cumulative	Displays the total value since you opened the Stats tab.
Average/sec	Displays the average value for each second.
Minimum/sec	Displays the minimum value for each second.
Maximum/sec	Displays the maximum value for each second.
LastVal/sec	Displays the last value for each second.
LsdbTblSize	Displays the number of entries in the link state database table.
TxPackets	Displays the number of packets transmitted by OSPF.
RxPackets	Displays the number of packets received by OSPF.
TxDropPackets	Displays the number of packets dropped before transmitted by OSPF.
RxDropPackets	Displays the number of packets dropped before received by OSPF.
RxBadPackets	Displays the number of packets received by OSPF that are bad.
SpfRuns	Displays the total number of SPF calculations performed by OSPF, which includes the number of partial route table calculation for incremental updates.
BuffersAllocated	Displays the number of buffers allocated for OSPF.
BuffersFreed	Displays the number of buffers that are freed by the OSPF.
BufferAllocFailures	Displays the number of times that OSPF has failed to allocate buffers.
BufferFreeFailures	Displays the number of times that OSPF has failed to free buffers.
Routes	Displays the number of OSPF routes added to RTM.
Adjacencies	Displays how many adjacencies are learned through the interface.
Areas	Displays the number of areas configured.
Nbrs	Indicates the number of OSPF neighbors.
BadLsReqs	Indicates the number of bad link state requests.
SeqMismatches	Indicates the number of sequence mismatched packets.
NumAllocDDP	Indicates the number of database description (DD) packet buffers allocated for OSPF.
NumFreeDDP	Indicates the number of DD packet buffers that are freed by the OSPF.