Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Plus User Manual - Supporting DCFM 10.3.x (53-1001356-01, October 2009)

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Contents
Syslog forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278
Registering the management server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Registering a host server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Removing a host server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Adding a destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Editing a destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Removing a destination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Enabling Syslog forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Disabling Syslog forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Chapter 8 Performance Data
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Performance overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Performance measures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Performance management requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
Generating a real-time performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Filtering real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Exporting real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Clearing port counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Historical performance data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Enabling historical performance collection SAN wide. . . . . . 293
Enabling historical performance collection for
selected fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Disabling historical performance collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Generating a historical performance graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Filtering data by ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .295
Filtering data by time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .295
Saving a historical performance graph configuration . . . . . . 295
Exporting historical performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Deleting a historical performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
End-to-end monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Configuring an end-to-end monitor pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a real-time graph. . . 298
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a historical graph. . . 298
Refreshing end-to-end monitor pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Deleting an end-to-end monitor pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Top Talker monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
Configuring a fabric mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Configuring an F_port mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . 301
Deleting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Pausing a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Restarting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Thresholds and event notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Creating a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Editing a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Duplicating a threshold policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Assigning a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Deleting a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306