Detect CRC's and Collisions/Underruns in Windows

[Ryan Kiehn]

Does anyone know how to get a windows system, either through the Insight Agents or perfmon or WMI, to show when the NIC is experiencing CRC errors, etc. I don't see anything in the event logs or my Insight agents.

I know they (errors) can be seen under the Statistics tab of cpqteam, and I am definitely getting errors, but I want to find out about this type of problem from Insight or MOM (which we use for monitoring).

Thanks

[Ron Kinner]

You get CRC errors most commonly when you have a duplex mismatch. One side set to Auto and the other to Full will guarantee a duplex mismatch since the Auto side will set up at half.

Windows itself doesn't see these errors. Only the NIC sees them but it should report them via SNMP if you really need it.

Ron

[Ryan Kiehn]

What I need are some specific methods for getting this info to Windows, so I can be alerted on the problem. I am all too aware of what will cause the problem - what I need to know is how to detect it when somone improperly sets a switch port or NIC.

Thanks