Interface Discards

This network monitor report displays the percentage of interface utilization discards for inbound and outbound packet data for a device interface, or group of device interfaces, during a selected time period. This report allows you to monitor and troubleshoot interfaces experiencing packet discard problems.

Note: To ensure that your data collection is uninterrupted in the occurrence of a re-index, click Advanced and change the Determine uniqueness by list option to Interface description.

Device report:

Group report:

Interface Discards report for a device

Interface Discards report for a group

Monitor report body for device reports

Below the date/time picker is a graph showing interface utilization for the selected time period. Each point on the graph corresponds with an entry in the graph data table below. ifInDiscards (Receive) are graphed as a red line, while ifOutDiscards (Transmit) are graphed as a blue line.When multiple interfaces are present in the selected device, change the selected interface using the Interface menu.

Summary

Under the main report graph, the report displays a summary of data for the interface collected during the time period:

Receive

Transmit

Note: Values displayed in the graph are the average values for the selected time period. Values displayed in the summary are the minimum, maximum, and average values for the selected time period. If raw polling data has been averaged into hourly or daily summarized data, the values for min and average, or maximum and average can be different. In some cases, they may be very different if there was a period of time when polled values were much higher or lower than normal.

You can verify your report rollup settings on the WhatsUp Gold console via Program Options > Report Data.

Changing how the chart looks

Click the Chart Properties button to change how the report chart is displayed.

Monitor report body for groups

Below the date/time picker is a table showing device interface packet discard information for the selected time period:

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See Also

Network monitor reports

Learning about network monitors

Interface Utilization

Interface Traffic

Ping Response Time

Ping Availability

Interface Errors