Command Reference Guide

598 Fabric OS Command Reference

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perfCfgSave

Saves performance monitoring configuration settings to nonvolatile memory.

SYNOPSIS perfcfgsave

DESCRIPTION Use this command to save the current Performance Monitor configuration for end-to-end (EE)

performance monitors to nonvolatile memory. Configuration changes are saved persistently across

power cycles.

The number of monitors that can be saved to flash memory is limited as follows:

• 16 EE monitors per port

• A total number of 512 EE monitors per switch

When the number of monitors per port or switch exceeds the limit, the following message is displayed:

"Performance monitor count has exceeded limit. Some monitors have been discarded."

NOTES This command requires an Advanced Performance Monitoring license.

This command is not supported on virtual FC ports (VE/VEX_Port), EX_Port, M (Mirror) ports and GbE

ports.

Monitors created by Web Tools are not saved in persistent memory.

The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may be in

place. Refer to Chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS Commands" and Appendix A, "Command Availability" for

details.

OPERANDS None

EXAMPLES To save the current performance monitoring configuration to firmware:

switch:admin> perfcfgsave

This will overwrite previously saved Performance Monitoring

settings in FLASH. Do you want to continue?

(yes, y, no, n): [no] y

Please wait ...

Performance monitoring configuration saved in FLASH.