Monitoring Virtual Chassis Status and Statistics
Purpose
Use the monitoring functionality to view the following information about to virtual chassis members and ports:
- Member details and how members are connected with each other.
- Traffic statistics between the virtual chassis ports of selected members.
Action
To view virtual chassis monitoring details in the J-Web interface, select Monitor > Virtual Chassis.
To view member details for all members in the CLI, enter the following command:
show virtual-chassis status
To view virtual-chassis port traffic statistics for a specific member in the CLI, enter the following command:
show virtual-chassis vc-port statistics member member-id
What it Means
In the J-Web interface the top half of the screen displays details of the virtual chassis, such as:
- Member ID
- Priority
- Role
- Interface
- The member ID of the neighboring switch
In the bottom half of the screen, select a member ID to view input and output rates. Select the interval at which the charts must be refreshed. Click the Stop button to stop fetching values from the switch, and click the Start button to start plotting data again from the point where it was stopped.
For details about the output from CLI commands, refer to show virtual-chassis status and show virtual-chassis vc-port statistics.




