DCFM Professional Plus User Manual (53-1001774-01, June 2010)

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Contents
Performance measures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Performance management requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Generating a real-time performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Filtering real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Exporting real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Clearing port counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Historical performance data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Enabling historical performance collection SAN wide. . . . . . 297
Enabling historical performance collection for selected fabrics 297
Disabling historical performance collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Generating a historical performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Saving a historical performance graph configuration . . . . . . 299
Exporting historical performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Deleting a historical performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
End-to-end monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301
Configuring an end-to-end monitor pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a real-time graph . . . 302
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a historical graph. . . 302
Refreshing end-to-end monitor pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Deleting an end-to-end monitor pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Top Talker monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Configuring a fabric mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Configuring an F_port mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . 306
Deleting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Pausing a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Restarting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Thresholds and event notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Creating a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Editing a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Duplicating a threshold policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Assigning a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Deleting a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313
Enabling connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Disabling connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Changing connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Chapter 12 Reports
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Report types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Generating reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318
Viewing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318
Exporting reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318
Printing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320
Deleting reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320