Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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Advanced Performance Monitoring overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
Types of monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
Restrictions for installing monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394
Virtual Fabrics considerations for Advanced
Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394
Access Gateway considerations for Advanced Performance
Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .395
End-to-end performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .395
Maximum number of EE monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .395
Supported port configurations for EE monitors . . . . . . . . . . . .396
Adding end-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .396
Setting a mask for an end-to-end monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Deleting end-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .398
Displaying end-to-end monitor counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .398
Clearing end-to-end monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .399
Frame monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400
Creating frame types to be monitored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400
Deleting frame types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401
Adding frame monitors to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402
Removing frame monitors from a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402
Saving frame monitor configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402
Displaying frame monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .403
Clearing frame monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .403
Top Talker monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .404
Top Talker monitors and Fibre Channel routing . . . . . . . . . . . .405
Limitations of Top Talker monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406
Adding a Top Talker monitor to a port (port mode) . . . . . . . . .407
Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric
(fabric mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407
Displaying the top n bandwidth-using flows on a port
(port mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407
Displaying top talking flows for a given domain ID
(fabric mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .408
Deleting a Top Talker monitor on a port (port mode) . . . . . . .408
Deleting all fabric mode Top Talker monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
Trunk monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
Saving and restoring monitor configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
Performance data collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Chapter 20 Optimizing Fabric Behavior
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .411
Adaptive Networking overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Ingress Rate Limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .412
Limiting traffic from a particular device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413
Disabling ingress rate limiting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413
QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413
License requirements for SID/DID prioritization . . . . . . . . . . .414