Owner's manual

Advanced Performance Monitoring User’s Guide 1-1
Chapter
1
Introducing Advanced Performance Monitoring
This chapter provides the following information:
• Overview on page 1-1
• Performance Monitoring with Telnet Commands on page 1-2
• Performance Monitoring with Web Tools on page 1-3
Overview
Advanced Performance Monitoring provides SAN performance management through an
end-to-end monitoring system that enables you to:
• Increase end-to-end visibility into the fabric
• Enable more accurate reporting for service level agreements and charged access applications
• Improve performance tuning and resource optimization
• Shorten troubleshooting time
• Promote better capacity planning
• Simplify administration and setup
• Increase productivity with preformatted and customizable screens and reports
Features
The Advanced Performance Monitoring product:
• Measures the bandwidth consumed by individual routes (host-target pairs)
• Provides device performance measurements by port, AL_PA, and LUN
• Reports CRC error measurement statistics
• Measures Trunking performance
• Compares IP vs. SCSI traffic on each port
• Includes a wide range of predefined reports
• Allows you to create customized user-defined reports
Administration
Advanced Performance Monitoring is an optionally licensed product that runs on FC Entry Switch
8B, FC Switch 8B, and FC 16B switches.