Owner's manual

Advanced Performance Monitoring User’s Guide 3-1

Chapter

Using Advanced Performance Monitoring

This chapter provides the following information:

• Overview on page 3-1

• AL_PA Performance Monitoring on page 3-2

• End-to-end Performance Monitoring on page 3-3

• Filter-based Performance Monitoring on page 3-8

• Saving and Restoring Monitor Configuration on page 3-12

Overview

You can administer Advanced Performance Monitoring through telnet commands or through Web

Tools (an optionally licensed product). This chapter describes performance monitoring through

telnet commands.

Web Tools

Switch performance can be monitored in the Performance View of Web Tools. To access

Performance View, click Perf in Switch View.

For information about performance monitoring through Web Tools, refer to the Web Tools User’s

Guide Version 3.0.

Telnet Commands

The telnet commands for Advanced Performance Monitoring become available through the shell

“admin” account when the Advanced Performance Monitoring license key is installed. To use a

telnet command, log into the relevant switch with administrative privileges, enter the command

along with any required arguments, and press Enter.

Using telnet commands, you can track the following:

• Number of CRC errors for AL_PA devices

• Number of words in Fibre Channel frames with a defined SID/DID pair

• Number of times a particular command or frame type is received by a port

For a description of all the telnet commands provided for performance monitoring, see the

Fabric OS Reference Manual Version 3.0.