Monitoring Frame Relay Communications

Introduction

Frame Relay communication is one of the applications that is widely used data link protocol base on the packet transferring technology. Now days it is widely being used in the business world due to its excellent performance along with cheap rate of data transmission and easy installation. Its trouble shooting is also easy and less time consuming. Local area networks can be easily developed by using this technique. It is also easy to monitor and maintain.
The data transfer rate on frame relay is about 56 to 2Mbps that is not a bad speed as we go through other networks that are expensive. Different software of compression and speed increase can also be used to make the network work more efficiently and to maintain the quality. The packets in Frame Relay communication are at the data link layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.

Some communication techniques support the following types of Frame Relay analyzers that quite good:

Real-time Frame Relay Analyzer (fundamentals are : GL's field proven E1 or T1 internal cards for desktops, for USB Laptop E1 or T1 external units, and it also requires all types of licenses and Windows 2000/XP/Vista Operating System)

Show frame-relay Lmi:

The command provides a detailed view of figures on LMI transfer of data passage through a router and Frame Relay switch.

Show frame-relay map:

The command displays the list of the network layer address present to DLCI maps that are defined on a router of a network and also shows the up to date status.
Show frame-relay pvc

It provides the list of all PVCs present on the router, and the local DLCI numbers attached to them. It also shows very deep statistics that no other command provides, like the number of packets sent, received or dropped