Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 8-5
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Enabling Performance Monitoring
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You can create and save additional templates. For more information, see “Creating Templates for
Reports and Graphs” on page 8-14.
Enabling Performance Monitoring
Using the performance monitoring feature, you can collect information about the traffic generated
between ports (end-to-end) and/or the receive/transmit traffic on individual switch ports. The
performance monitor data is not stored on the Fabric Manager database during periods when the feature
is not enabled.
Before you can enable performance monitoring, you must be logged in to the seed switch of the fabric
you want to monitor. For end-to-end performance monitoring, an active Brocade Advanced
Performance Monitoring license is required on switches that you want to monitor. Performance
monitoring of port statistics does not require any special licenses on the switches that you want to
monitor.
Table 8-2 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
Note
Performance monitor 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.
Note
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.