Deployment Guide

Port Monitoring Using MAPS
● Port monitoring and pausing........................................................................................... 65
● Monitoring similar ports using the same rules.................................................................65
● Port monitoring using port names................................................................................... 66
● Port monitoring using device WWNs ..............................................................................66
● Adding a port to an existing group.................................................................................. 66
● Adding missing ports to a group .....................................................................................67
● Removing ports from a group..........................................................................................68
● D_Port monitoring........................................................................................................... 68
Port monitoring and pausing
Pausing operations on a port does not affect flow monitoring. Flow monitoring is done at the flow level
and the details of the flow passing through a particular port is transparent to MAPS.
Monitoring similar ports using the same rules
You can create groups of ports that behave in a similar manner and use this group to more easily
monitor the ports using a single set of rules and thresholds.
Often on a switch there are sets of ports that behave in a similar manner and have a different behavior
from other sets of ports. For example, the behavior of ports connected to UNIX hosts and servers is
different from the behavior of ports connected to Windows hosts and servers. To easily monitor these
similar sets of ports using the same rules, you can create a group and apply rules to the group.
To create a group and apply rules to the group, complete the following steps.
1. Create a logical group of similar ports.
switch:FID6:admin> logicalgroup --create unix_ports -type port -members "1,3,17,21"
2. Create rules using this logical group and add them to the active policy.
switch:FID6:admin> mapsrule --create unixHiCrc -monitor crc -group unix_ports -t
min -op g -value 50 -action raslog -policy my_policy
3. Enable the policy.
switch:FID6:admin> mapspolicy --enable my_policy
NOTE
You must enable the policy even if it is the active policy. Adding a rule to the active policy does not
take effect until you re-enable the policy.
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