Users Guide

2 Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrator’s Guide

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MAPS license requirements

MAPS is an optionally licensed feature of Fabric OS. MAPS requires an active and valid

Fabric Vision license. If you already have a license for Fabric Watch plus a license for Advanced

Performance Monitoring, you will automatically get MAPS functionality without having to obtain an

additional license.

MAPS interoperability with other features

MAPS interacts in different ways with different Fabric OS features, including Virtual Fabrics,

Fabric Watch, High Availability, and Admin Domains.

MAPS and Virtual Fabrics

When using virtual fabrics, different logical switches in a chassis can have different MAPS

configurations.

MAPS and Fabric Watch

MAPS cannot coexist with Fabric Watch. For information about migrating from Fabric Watch to

MAPS, refer to “Migrating from Fabric Watch to MAPS” on page 3.

MAPS configuration files

The MAPS configuration is stored in two separate configuration files, one for the default MAPS

configuration and one for the user-created MAPS configuration. Only one user configuration file can

exist for each logical switch. A configuration upload or download affects only the user-created

configuration files. You cannot upload or download the default MAPS configuration file. To remove

the user-created MAPS configuration run mapsConfig --purge. For more information on this

command, refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference.

MAPS and High Availability

MAPS configuration settings are maintained across a HA failover or HA reboot; however, MAPS will

restart monitoring after a HA failover or reboot and the MAPS cached statistics are not retained.

MAPS and Admin Domains

MAPS is supported on switches that have Admin Domains. There can only be one MAPS

configuration that is common to all the Admin Domains on the chassis. Users with Administrator

privileges can modify the MAPS configuration from any Admin Domain.

ATTENTION

If MAPS is enabled, do not download configuration files that have Admin Domains defined.