Troubleshooting Network Administration Issues in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

Using Observability Tools to Monitor Network Traffic Usage

This chapter describes how to use Oracle Solaris network observability tools to display configuration information and monitor network traffic usage on each layer of the Oracle Solaris network protocol stack .

This chapter contains the following topics:

• About Network Troubleshooting and Observability

• Observing Network Configuration and Traffic Usage

This chapter contains examples for selected networking features and a particular network configuration scenario. For more information about administering networking features in the Oracle Solaris release, refer to the following additional resources:

• Managing Network Datalinks in Oracle Solaris 11.3

• Managing Network Virtualization and Network Resources in Oracle Solaris 11.3

• Administering TCP/IP Networks, IPMP, and IP Tunnels in Oracle Solaris 11.3