Deployment Guide

Top Talker monitors are not supported on the embedded platforms: Brocade 5410, 5424, 5450, 5460,
5470, and 5480.
Top Talker monitors and FC-FC routing
You can enable Top Talker monitors on a platform that is configured to be an FC router. Top Talker
monitors and FC routers are concurrently supported on the following platforms:
• Brocade 6505
• Brocade 6510
• Brocade 6520
• Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone family, with the following blades only: FC16-32, FC16-48
On all other platforms, you can have either Top Talker monitors or FC-FC routing, but not both.
Top Talker monitors are supported on an FC router in both backbone-to-edge and edge-to-edge
configurations.
Note the following restrictions:
• An E_Port-attached switch must be connected and merged with the backbone FC router before you
can enable Top Talker monitors on the FC router.
• Fabric mode Top Talker monitors do not support requests for domains (either front port domain or
xlate domain).
• Fabric mode Top Talker monitors do not monitor flows over EX_Ports.
For example, if a host is connected directly to an FC router and the target is on the edge switch (refer to
Figure 77 ), no flows are monitored because none of the flows traverse an E_Port on the FC router.
In Figure 78 , however, the flows across the E_Port on the FC router are monitored.
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