Technical Tip: Meaning of the counter fields in ‘diagnose test application ipsmonitor 14’

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Description
This article explains the meaning of for the counter fields in ‘diagnose test application ipsmonitor 14’.

Solution
Below is the output of ‘diagnose test application ipsmonitor 14’ debug commands:

# diag test application ipsmonitor 14
Turbo Engine #373: rx 0 tx 0 frag 0 view 0 drop(vdct 0 ctag 0 tx 0 full 0 task 0 decode 0 gtp-u 0 sock 0 frag 0 de-frag 0) free 512 (index 0 state 0 xmit_index 0 xmit_state 0)
Turbo Engine #374: rx 0 tx 0 frag 0 view 0 drop(vdct 0 ctag 0 tx 0 full 0 task 0 decode 0 gtp-u 0 sock 0 frag 0 de-frag 0) free 512 (index 0 state 0 xmit_index 0 xmit_state 0)
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- 'Turbo Engine #373 / #374': is the IPs enginePID.

- 'rx': numbers of packets received by the IPs engine through NTurbo.

- 'tx': numbers of packets transmitted by the IPs nngine to NTurbo.

- 'drop-vdct' : numbers of packets dropped by the IPs engine due to detected attacks.

- 'drop-ctag & drop-view': numbers of packets dropped by the IPs Engine due to incorrect NTurbo info.

- 'drop-tx & drop-full': number of packets dropped by the IPs Engine due to transmit failure.

- 'drop-decode': number of packets dropped by the IPs engine due to packet decoding error.