User's Manual

5 – Managing Ports
Graphing Port Performance
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 Set the polling frequency
 Display graphs
 Print graphs
 Save graph statistics to a file
5.6.1
Starting SANsurfer Performance Viewer
To start SANsurfer Performance Viewer from within SANsurfer Switch Manager,
open the topology display and select Start Performance Viewer from the Fabric
menu. When starting the SANsurfer Performance Viewer application from the
SANsurfer Switch Manager application on Linux and Solaris platforms, the fabric
currently displayed in the SANsurfer Switch Manager topology display opens
automatically in the SANsurfer Performance Viewer topology display. On
Windows platforms, you will need to manually open the fabric in the SANsurfer
Performance Viewer topology display.
5.6.2
Exiting SANsurfer Performance Viewer
To exit a SANsurfer Performance Viewer session, open the File menu and select
Exit. The current fabric view is automatically saved to your default performance
view file upon exit, if you have defined an encryption key. The key is encrypted
and saved with your default performance view file. A performance view file
contains the set of fabrics that have been added and the graphs that have been
opened during a SANsurfer Performance Viewer session. If you have not yet
defined an encryption key, the Save Default Performance View File dialog, shown
in Figure 5-6, prompts you to save the current performance view file as the default
performance view file. Refer to ”Changing the Default Performance View File
Encryption Key” on page 5-21 for information about defining and changing this
encryption key.
In the Save Default Performance View File dialog, enter an encryption key in the
Default Performance File Encryption Key field. Re-enter the encryption key in the
Re-enter Encryption Key to Confirm field. Click the OK button to save the current
set of fabrics to the default performance view file in the working directory.
Note: On the Solaris platforms, if you launch the SANsurfer Performance
Viewer application from the SANsurfer Switch Manager application
and SANsurfer Performance Viewer can not connect to the fabric, (for
example, if you have reached the maximum number of SANsurfer
Switch Manager sessions on the entry switch), then SANsurfer
Performance Viewer opens with a blue fabric icon displayed in the
fabric tree. The reason for status displayed after the fabric name in the
fabric tree will indicate the reason for failure to connect.