Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001194-01, April 2009)

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Chapter
8
Monitoring Performance
In this chapter
•Performance Monitor overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
•Opening the Performance Monitoring window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
•Creating basic performance monitor graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
•Customizing basic monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
•Advanced performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
•Saving graphs to a canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
•Adding graphs to an existing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
•Printing graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
•Modifying graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Performance Monitor overview
The Web Tools Performance Monitoring window graphically displays throughput (in megabytes per
second) for each port and for the entire switch. To perform performance monitoring, the EGM
license must be enabled on the switch; otherwise, when you click on the Performance Monitor tab,
access to this feature is denied and an error messages displays.
NOTE
The EGM license is required only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S
enterprise-class platforms, the Encryption Switch, the 300, 5300, and 5100 switches. For non-8
Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without EGM license.
The Basic Monitoring menu in Performance Monitor is standard in the Web Tools software. Any
user logged into Web Tools with an associated role of zoneadmin or securityadmin cannot open
Performance Monitor. The roles user, operator, and basicswitchadmin are allowed to perform basic
monitoring tasks except save or display canvas operations in any Admin Domain context. Only
users with the admin, switchadmin and fabricadmin roles associated with their login accounts are
able to save or display a canvas. Use the Basic Monitoring option in the Performance Graphs
window to:
• Create user-definable reports.
• Display a performance canvas for application-level or fabric-level views.
• Save persistent graphs across reboots (saves parameter data across reboots).
The Advanced Monitoring menu in Performance Monitor is an optionally licensed feature. To utilize
the Advanced Monitoring feature you must have a license installed and you must log in using an
account with an admin, switchadmin, or fabricadmin role.