Installation Guide

Chapter 3: Operation System statistics
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Interpreting Throughput statistics
The 450 Platform Family has a Statistics > Throughput page which shows historical information about
sector or backhaul throughput and packet discards. This page is applicable for AP and BHM modules.
This information can be useful to identify an overloaded sector or heavy bandwidth users. This page
also shows the user throughput in terms of data rate (kbps) and packet rate (packets per second, or
PPS), as well as the average packet size during the sample period.
Operators may set the AP/BHM to send an SNMP trap when it detects an RF overload condition based
on a configurable threshold.
The following configuration parameters are available on the Throughput tab GUI pane and a radio
reboot is not required when configuring these parameters:
Table 140 RF overload Configuration attributes – AP/BHM
Attribute
Meaning
Throughput
Monitoring
This enables or disables the monitoring of sector throughput and packet
discards. This parameter is disabled by default.
SNMP Trap on RF
Overload
This enables or disables the sending of an SNMP trap when an AP/BHM
overload condition is reached (based on Downlink RF Overload Threshold).
Downlink RF Overload
Threshold
This parameter determines the overload threshold in percent of packets
discarded that triggers the generation of an SNMP trap.
Downlink RF Link
Status
This field displays the status of the capacity of the RF link.
Time Period Length
Time Period Ending
These two configuration parameters determine what set of collection
samples to show on the GUI display. The Time Period Length can be set from
one to three hours. Time Period Ending allows the operator to set the end
time for the set of collection samples to display.
Following configuration settings are three tables that display the statistics that are collected.