HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.1.1 administrator guide (5697-0235, December 2009)

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Administering advanced performance monitoring
This chapter describes the Advanced Performance Monitoring licensed feature.
About Advanced Performance Monitoring
Additional performance monitoring features are provided through Web Tools. See the Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide for information about monitoring performance using the Web Tools GUI.
Based on Brocade Frame Filtering technology and a unique performance counter engine, Advanced
Performance Monitoring is a comprehensive tool for monitoring the performance of networked storage
resources.
Advanced Performance Monitoring provides the following monitors:
• End-to-End monitor—Measures the traffic between a host/target pair.
• Filter-based monitor—Measures the traffic transmitted through a port with specific values in the first 64
bytes of the frame.
• ISL monitoring —Measures the traffic transmitted through an InterSwitch Link (ISL) to different destination
domains.
• AL_PA monitoring—Reports cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error measurement statistics for an AL_PA.
• Top Talker monitoring —Measures the flows that are major consumers of bandwidth on a port.
NOTE: Advanced Performance Monitoring is not supported on VE_Ports (virtual FC_Ports) and EX_Ports. If
you issue commands for any Advanced Performance Monitors on VE_Ports or EX_Ports, you will receive
error messages. See ”Configuring and monitoring FCIP extension services” on page 385 for more
information about VE_Ports.
The type of monitors supported depends on the ASIC. Table 72 shows the monitors supported on different
ASICs.
CRC reports are accessed using Web Tools.
Advanced Performance Monitor commands are available only to users with the admin or switchAdmin
roles. Use the perfhelp command to display a list of commands associated with Advanced Performance
Monitoring. For detailed information on these commands, see the Fabric OS Command Reference.
Table 72 Types of monitors supported on B-Series switch models
Monitors: EE Filter ISL Top Talker
4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch Yes Yes Yes No
8/8 SAN Switch, 8/24 SAN Switch,
8/80 SAN Switch
Yes Yes No Yes
SAN Switch 4/32, 4/64 SAN
Switch, SAN Switch 4/32B, 400
Multi-protocol Router, and the 4/256
SAN Director
Yes Yes Yes Yes
DC SAN Backbone Director (short
name, DC Director) and 8/40 SAN
Switch
Yes Yes No Yes