HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.x Administrator Guide (AA-RUQSF-TE, September 2005)

90 Using the Performance Monitor
You can create and save additional templates. For more information, see ”Creating templates for reports
and graphs” on page 97.
Enabling performance monitoring
CAUTION: The retrieval of port statistics and end-to-end monitoring of data can take longer than
expected if you issue any CPU-intensive commands (such as the portTest diagnostic command) while
performance monitoring is enabled.
Using the performance monitoring feature, you can collect information about the traffic generated
between ports (end-to-end) and the receive or transmit traffic on individual switch ports. Performance
monitor data is not stored on the Fabric Manager database during periods when the feature is not
enabled.
NOTE: performance monitoring is designed to be enabled at all times. Its benefits are diminished if the
historical data is not available to you when you need it.
Before you can enable performance monitoring, you must be logged in to the launch switch of the fabric
you want to monitor and it must have an active HP Advanced Performance Monitoring license.
To enable performance monitoring:
1. Right-click the fabric in the SAN Elements tab and select Performance Monitor > Configuration from the
context menu.
The Performance Monitoring Configuration dialog box opens (see Figure 43).
Table 15 Default performance monitoring report templates for port statistics
Report name Format Time Granularity Filter
Top N of Ports (Aggregate Tx/Rx Traffic)
over time T
Display
(HTML)
Last 1 hour 5 minutes None
Top N of Ports (Aggregate Tx/Rx Traffic)
over time T
Display
(HTML)
Last 30
minutes
5 minutes None
Top N of Ports Receiving (Rx) traffic
over time T
Display
(HTML)
Last 1 hour 5 minutes None
Top N of Ports Receiving (Rx) traffic
over time T
Display
(HTML)
Last 30
minutes
5 minutes None
Top N of Ports Generating (Tx) traffic
over time
Display
(HTML)
Last 1 hour 5 minutes None
Top N of Ports Generating (Tx) traffic
over time
Display
(HTML)
Last 30
minutes
5 minutes None