Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise User Manual v10.3.X (53-1001357-01, November 2009)

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Contents
Historical performance data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
Enabling historical performance collection SAN wide. . . . . . 307
Enabling historical performance collection for
selected fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Disabling historical performance collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Generating a historical performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Saving a historical performance graph configuration . . . . . . 310
Exporting historical performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Deleting a historical performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
End-to-end monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312
Configuring an end-to-end monitor pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a real-time graph. . . 314
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a historical graph. . . 314
Refreshing end-to-end monitor pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Deleting an end-to-end monitor pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Top Talker monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
Configuring a fabric mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Configuring an F_port mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . 318
Deleting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Pausing a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Restarting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Thresholds and event notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321
Creating a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Editing a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Duplicating a threshold policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Assigning a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Deleting a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327
Enabling connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Disabling connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Changing connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Chapter 9 Reports
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331
Report types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331
Generating reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332
Viewing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332
Exporting reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .334
Printing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .334
Deleting reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335
Generating performance reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335
Generating zoning reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .337