Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) Manual

Monitoring Performance
● Performance Monitor overview..................................................................................... 125
● Opening the Performance Monitor window................................................................... 130
● Creating basic performance monitor graphs................................................................. 130
● Customizing basic monitoring graphs........................................................................... 131
● Advanced performance monitoring graphs................................................................... 133
● Tunnel and TCP performance monitoring graphs......................................................... 135
● Saving graphs to a canvas............................................................................................136
● Adding graphs to an existing canvas............................................................................ 137
● Printing graphs.............................................................................................................. 137
● Modifying graphs...........................................................................................................137
Performance Monitor overview
The Web Tools Performance Monitoring tool graphically displays throughput (in megabytes per second)
for each port and for the entire switch. To utilize performance monitoring, the EGM license must be
enabled on the switch. Otherwise, when you select Monitor > Performance Monitor, access to this
feature is denied and an error messages displays
Basic monitoring
The Basic Monitoring menu is standard in the Web Tools software. Any user logged into Web Tools
with an associated role of zoneadmin or securityadmin cannot open Performance Monitor. The roles
user, operator, basicswitchadmin, and properly configured user- defined roles are allowed to perform
basic monitoring tasks, except save or display canvas operations in any Admin Domain context. Only
users with the admin, switchadmin, and fabricadmin roles associated with their login accounts are able
to save or display a canvas. Use the Basic Monitoring option in the Performance Graphs window to
do the following:
• Create user-definable reports.
• Display a performance canvas for application-level or fabric-level views.
• Save persistent graphs across restarts (saves parameter data across restarts).
Advanced monitoring
The Advanced Monitoring menu is an optionally licensed feature. To utilize the Advanced Monitoring
feature, you must have either the Advanced Performance Monitor license or the Fabric Vision license
installed and you must log in using an account with an admin, switchadmin, or fabricadmin role, and
properly configured user-defined roles.
The Advanced Monitoring option in the Performance Graphs window displays predefined reports and
filter-based performance monitoring. You can use this feature to track the following:
• The number of words received and transmitted in Fibre Channel frames with a defined SID/DID pair.
• The number of times a particular filter pattern in a frame is transmitted by a port.
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