Deployment Guide

Monitoring Flow Vision Flows with MAPS

● Viewing Flow Vision Flow Monitor data with MAPS........................................................ 71

● Examples of using MAPS to monitor traffic performance................................................73

● Examples of monitoring flows at the sub-flow level.........................................................74

Viewing Flow Vision Flow Monitor data with MAPS

The Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) can monitor flows created using the Flow Monitor

feature of Flow Vision. Flows created by Flow Vision's Flow Generator and Flow Mirror features cannot

be monitored using MAPS.

For details on flows and Flow Vision, refer to the Flow Monitor section of the Flow Vision Administrator's

Guide.

To monitor flows using MAPS, complete the following steps.

1. Create the flow in Flow Vision using the flow --create command.

2. Import the flow into MAPS using the mapsConfig --import command.

3. Define a MAPS rule using the mapsRule --create command.

Refer to MAPS rules overview on page 50 for information on creating and using rules.

4. Optional: Enter mapsDb --show to view the flow data.

For a discussion of the output of this command, refer to MAPS dashboard overview on page 75.

The following example illustrates these steps.

switch246:FID128:admin> flow --create myflow_22 -feature monitor -egrport 21 -srcdev

0x010200 -dstdev 0x011500

switch246:FID128:admin> mapsconfig --import myflow_22

switch246:FID128:admin> mapsrule --create myRule_22 -group myflow22 -monitor TX_FCNT -

timebase hour -op g -value 22 -action RASLOG -policy myPolicy

Flow Vision statistics supported by MAPS

MAPS can monitor the following statistics supported by the Flow Vision (FV) Flow Monitor feature:

• Frame statistics:

‐ Number of frames transmitted from the flow source.

‐ Number of frames received by the flow destination.

‐ Number of megabytes (MB) transmitted per second by the flow source.

‐ Number of megabytes (MB) received per second by the flow destination.

• SCSI statistics:

‐ Number of SCSI I/O read command frames recorded for the flow.

‐ Number of SCSI I/O write command frames recorded for the flow.

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