Switching Summary report – Entuity

To run the Switching Summary report

The Switching Summary report displays a summary of devices that provide layer 2 switching services. This report enables you to see information for one or more selected switches within a selected view.

Switching Summary report details:

Name	Description
sysName	switch system name or, where not available, the IP address
Location	SysLocation, or where not available it is left blank.
Manufacturer	device manufacturer.
Serial Number	device serial number.
Model	device model.
Version	device version number.
Management IP	IP address that Entuity uses to poll the device.
Last reboot	time of the last device reboot.
Polling status	status of Entuity SNMP polling of the device, i.e. Polling, Non-Polling.
System descr	system description, which for a Cisco device is a parsed sysDesc with model, versrion and serial number.
Uptime %	amount of time the switch is known to be up, as a % of the reporting period.
Unknown uptime	amount of time Entuity estimates the device was up when Entuity could not poll for its true state.
Outages	number of outages on the device during the reporting period.
Total/Host Ports (excluding virtual ports)	number of ports on the device, excluding virtual port.
Trunk/Uplink Ports (including virtual ports)	number of infrastructure ports on the device, including virtual port.
Spare Ports (excluding virtual ports)	number of spare ports on the device, excluding virtual port.
Round Trip Latency between Entuity and the device	round trip latency between Entuity server and the host, in miliseconds.
Average Reachability %	amount of time the device responds to ping, as a % of the reporting period.
Aggregate host port traffic	aggregated inbound and outbound traffic on the host port.
CPU and memory	graph charts router CPU utilization and memory usage over the reporting period.
Host Port Faults	number of faults on the host port.
Infrastructure Port Faults	number of faults on infrastructure ports.
Type	infrastructure port type, i.e. trunk, uplink.
Speed	port's referenced interface speed, used e.g. when Entuity calculates port utilization. Administrators can amend the port interface speed.
Description	description of the device and its interface.

To run the Switching Summary report:

In the Main Menu, click Reports.
This will open the Reports page. Click Activity Reports.
This will open the Activity Reports page. Click Switching Summary.
This will open the Switching Summary Options page.
If you want to reuse previously saved report values, select it in the Use saved values dropdown field.
Specify the format of the report in the Report format field.
Specify the View against which the report is to be run in the Please select a View dropdown field. From ENA v18.0 P06 upwards, you can drag Views into this field from the Drop Box.
Specify the device against which the report is to be run in the Please select a device dropdown field.
Specify if you want the Report Period to be a Recent period or across a Range.
Specify the time within the reporting period for which the report is applicable in the Prime Time fields, e.g. between 09:00 and 17:00 each day.
ENA v17.0 P08 upwards: Specify the time zone to which you want the reporting period to apply. By default, this is set to None, which means that the time zone of the host/consolidation server is used.
Click Save to save your report values, Run to run immediately, or click Cancel.

To run the Switching Summary report:

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