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MAPS dashboard overview
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Notes on dashboard data
• The dashboard displays data only for days that have errors. If a day does not have any errors,
the dashboard does not include that day in the results.
• The “Rule Count” value is the absolute number of different violations in that category since the
previous midnight. The “Repeat Count” is the number of times a rule has been violated in the
hour, for example between 10:00:00 and 10:59:59.
• By default only the last five violations are displayed for each category. However, running
mapsDb --show all causes the dashboard to display all the rule violations currently stored
along with additional historical data.
• If there are no errors for the switch ports, security, fabric, or FCIP health, the dashboard
displays “No-error”. If there are no errors for any of the other categories, the dashboard
displays “In-range”. The following dashboard state conditions may be displayed:
• No-error: Displayed if there is no error, for example, if no port has had an error since
midnight.
• In-range: Displayed if there are errors but no rule was triggered.
• Out of range: Displayed if at least one error triggered a rule belonging to the category in
which this state message appears.
• CIR_UTIL errors (CIR_UTIL, RX, TX, UTIL) are not displayed in the Historical data section unless
other errors are recorded for that day.
MAPS dashboard display options
You can set the dashboard to display data gathered since midnight, for any 60-minute period since
midnight, or for the last seven days on which errors were recorded. Refer to the Fabric OS
Command Reference for detailed instructions on using the mapsDb command options to configure
the dashboard.
Viewing the MAPS dashboard
After a policy is created and activated, you can monitor the switch status by running
mapsDb --show with the appropriate parameter. There are three primary views: a summary view,
a detailed view (which includes historical data), and a history-only view. Refer to “MAPS monitoring
categories” for explanations of the categories listed in the dashboard output.
Viewing a summary switch status report
A summary view provides health status at a high level, and includes enough information for you to
investigate further if necessary.
To view a summary switch status report, complete the following steps.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter mapsDb --show with no other parameters to display the summary status.
The following example displays the general status of the switch (“CRITICAL”) and lists the overall
status of the monitoring categories for the current day (measured since midnight) and for the last
seven days. If any of the categories are shown as being “Out of operating range”, the last five
conditions that caused this status are listed.