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16 Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrator’s Guide
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MAPS monitoring categories
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Traffic Performance
The Traffic Performance category groups areas that track the source and destination of traffic. You
can use traffic thresholds and alarms to determine traffic load and flow and to reallocate resources
appropriately. Table 10 lists the monitored parameters in this category and provides a brief
description for each one.
TABLE 9 Switch Resource category parameters
Monitored parameter Description
Temperature (TEMP) Refers to the ambient temperature inside the switch, in degrees Celsius.
Temperature sensors monitor the switch in case the temperature rises to levels
at which damage to the switch might occur.
Flash (FLASH_USAGE) Monitors the compact flash space available by calculating the percentage of
flash space consumed and comparing it with the configured high threshold
value.
CPU usage (CPU) Monitors the percentage of CPU available by calculating the percentage of CPU
consumed and comparing it with the configured threshold value.
Memory (MEMORY_USAGE) Monitors the available memory by calculating the percentage of memory
consumed and comparing it with the configured threshold value.
TABLE 10 Traffic Performance category parameters
Monitored parameter Description
Receive bandwidth usage
percentage (RX)
The percentage of port bandwidth being used by RX traffic. For example, if the
port speed is 10 Gbps and the port receives 5 Gb of data in one second, then
the %RX utilization is 50 percent (5 Gb*100/(10 Gb*1 second)). For a master
trunk port this indicates the RX percentage for the entire trunk.
Transmit bandwidth usage
percentage (TX)
The percentage of port bandwidth being used by TX traffic. For example, if the
port speed is 10 Gbps and the port sends 5 Gb of data in one second, then
the %TX utilization is 50 percent (5 Gb*100/(10 Gb*1 second)). For a master
trunk port, this indicates the TX percentage for the entire trunk.
Utilization (UTIL) The percentage of individual port (or trunk) bandwidth being used at the time of
the most recent poll.
Transmitted frame count
(TX_FCNT)
The number of frames transmitted from the flow source.
Received frame count
(RX_FCNT)
The number of frames received by the flow destination.
Transmitted throughput
(TX_THPUT)
The number of megabytes (MB) transmitted per second by the flow source.
Received throughput
(RX_THPUT)
The number of megabytes (MB) received per second by the flow destination.
SCSI frames read (IO_RD) The number of SCSI I/O read command frames recorded for the flow.
SCSI frames written (IO_WR) The number of SCSI I/O write command frames recorded for the flow.
SCSI frames read
(IO_RD_BYTES)
The number of SCSI I/O bytes read as recorded for the flow.
SCSI frames written
(IO_WR_BYTES)
The number of SCSI I/O bytes written as recorded for the flow.