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AOS-CX Switches with High Port Flaps
The insight can be accessed from the , , and context. This insight provides information on the switches that experience port flaps in the network. It is categorized under availability since this causes connectivity drops and also triggers the reboot of PoE Power over Ethernet. PoE is a technology for wired Ethernet LANs to carry electric power required for the device in the data cables. The IEEE 802.3af PoE standard provides up to 15.4 W of power on each port. devices. This insight displays the following information:
Time Series Graph
In and context the time series graph displays the count of switches experiencing port flaps in the network during the selected time period. You can hover your mouse on each bar graph to see the number of impacted switches during the selected time under each severity. In the context, this graph displays the severity level of the selected switch experiencing port flaps during the selected time period.
Cards
The cards vary based on the context that you access the insight from. Click one of the cards to view further details:
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Global |
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Global, Site |
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Global, Site, Device |
Site
Site card is accessible only when this insight is accessed from the global context. It lists the number of sites where switches have port flaps. Click the arrow 
to view the pictorial graph of the sites. Click the number displayed on the card, to view a detailed description of the impacted sites:
- —Name of the site where the impacted switch resides and link to the specific insight at the site context.
- —Number of the switches experiencing port flaps.
- —Number of errors in each site.
- —Number of ports experiencing flaps in each site.
Switch
Lists the number of switches that experience excessive port flaps in the network. Click the arrow to view the pictorial graph of the switches. Click the drop-down list to view the following:
- —Pictorial graph of port flaps classified by switch models.
- —Pictorial graph of port flaps classified by switch firmware versions.
Click the number displayed on the card to view a detailed description of the impacted switches:
- —Name of the switch experiencing port flaps and link to the specific insight at the switch context.
- —Serial number of the impacted switch and link to the specific insight at the switch context.
- —Stack ID of the impacted switch.
- —Number of port flaps in each switch.
- —Number of ports affected by excessive flaps.
- —Model number of the impacted switch.
- —Version of the firmware running on each switch.
- —Name of the site where the switch exists.
Port
Number of ports experiencing excessive flaps. Click the arrow to view the pictorial graph of the ports. Click the number displayed on the card, to view a detailed description of the impacted ports:
- —Name of the switch experiencing power issues and link to the specific insight at the switch context.
- —Serial number of the impacted switch and link to the specific insight at the switch context.
- —Stack ID of the impacted switch.
- —MAC Media Access Control. A MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on a network. address of the impacted switch.
- —Port number of the switch.
- —Number of port flaps in each port.
- —Status of the impacted switch.
- —MAC address of the connected device.
- —MAC address of the client device.
- —An overview of the connected devices, including the OS type, Model, and Version.
