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Additional MAPS features
In this chapter
•Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
•Pausing and resuming MAPS monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
•MAPS Service Availability Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Overview
The following sections describe additional features in the Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite
(MAPS).
Pausing and resuming MAPS monitoring
If you want to temporarily stop monitoring a port or other element in MAPS, for example, during
maintain an ce operations such as device or server upgrades, run mapsConfig --config pause and
specify both the element type and the specific member(s) that you want monitoring paused for.
This suspends MAPS monitoring for that element member. You must specify both the type and the
member information in the command; you specify multiple members by separating them with a
comma for individual members, or a hyphen for a range of members. You resume MAPS monitoring
by entering mapsConfig --config continue and specify both the element type and the specific
member(s) that you want monitoring resumed for.
The following example pauses MAPS monitoring for ports 5 and 7, and then resumes port 5.
switch: admin> mapsConfig --config pause -type port -members 5,7
switch: admin> mapsConfig --config continue -type port -members 5
MAPS Service Availability Module
The MAPS Service Availability Module (MAPSSAM) report lets you see the uptime and downtime for
each port. It also enables you to check if a particular port is failing more often than the others.
Although the switchShow command provides basic switch information, the MAPSSAM report
provides detailed information, which enables you to track marginal or faulty ports that can affect
throughput or switch performance.
The MAPSSAM report displays a summary record of the status of each port on the switch as a
percentage of the total time since either the switch was rebooted, MAPS was activated or
mapsSam --clear was run. This allows you to see if any port is failing more often than others. The
report lists each for each port the port number, type, total up and down times, the number of times
the port recorded a fault, and the total offline time for the port.