SwitchCop shows:
General Information about Switch: Information like Switch name, its up time, mac address, port count, contact person name etc.
Basic Bridging Information: It includes generic info about every port that is associated with this Switch, and filtering information configured into the Switch by (local or network) management specifying the set of ports to which frames received from specific ports and containing specific destination addresses are allowed to be forwarded.
Spanning Tree Protocol Information: If your Switch supports Spanning Tree Protocol than you can view information like protocol specification, time since topology change, path cost etc.
Transparent Bridging Information: If the bridging is of transparent type than information about every port that is associated with this transparent bridge (MaxInfo, InFrames, OutFrames, and InDiscards) can be seen.
VLan Information: In case VLan is configured on your network VLan Information show you VLan Version, Active VLans, VLan Index, Name, Ports associated with the VLans etc.
Port Information*: It includes port index, its type, sub type, and address.
Interface's details: Details about the interface of the Switch like their description, speed and status.
Facilitates Reporting (i.e. printing of important information is supported).
Switch Cop enables you to take Backup of important information in two formats, Text Format and MS Excel Sheet Format.
Graphs:
Switch Cop Display different Interface Traffic Graphs for:
Incoming Octets Vs Outgoing Octets.
Inbound packets that contained errors Vs Outbound packets that could not be transmitted because of errors, on the specified Interface.
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Usage:
Manage and Monitor Ethernet Switch.
Report generation of important
information for Audit/Inventory purpose.