Dedicated Servers : Is there a key or help file for the network stats?

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This dedicated server discussion started by Andrew Pollack on 30 November 2007

I’m new to The Planet, having had two servers over at Serverbeach for a while.

I’m impressed at the amount of data available in the network graphs on the Orbit portal, but don’t see a key there so I’m not getting all the understanding I could be.

For example:

1. I see sometimes a switch or router is “red”. Is this an indication that it is down, heavily loaded, experiencing latency, or just in my critical path?

2. I see on the provider charts a two layered graph. A green shaded area and a blue line. I don’t understand from looking exactly what the relationship on those two items are. Is one an average and the other a peak?

3. Is there an overview diagram of the data center networks, so that I can see the route my packets take without having to do a traceroute and draw my own?

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