17Administering Advanced Performance Monitoring; About Advanced Performance Monitoring; Types Of Monitors Supported On B-Series Switch Models - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

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Administering advanced performance monitoring
This chapter describes the Advanced Performance Monitoring licensed feature.

About Advanced Performance Monitoring

Additional performance monitoring features are provided through Web Tools. See the Web Tools
Administrator's Guide for information about monitoring performance using the Web Tools GUI.
Based on Brocade Frame Filtering technology and a unique performance counter engine, Advanced
Performance Monitoring is a comprehensive tool for monitoring the performance of networked storage
resources.
Advanced Performance Monitoring provides the following monitors:
• End-to-End monitor—Measures the traffic between a host/target pair.
• Filter-based monitor—Measures the traffic transmitted through a port with specific values in the first 64
bytes of the frame.
• ISL monitoring —Measures the traffic transmitted through an InterSwitch Link (ISL) to different destination
domains.
AL_PA monitoring—Reports cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error measurement statistics for an AL_PA.
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• Top Talker monitoring —Measures the flows that are major consumers of bandwidth on a port.
NOTE: Advanced Performance Monitoring is not supported on VE_Ports (virtual FC_Ports) and EX_Ports. If
you issue commands for any Advanced Performance Monitors on VE_Ports or EX_Ports, you will receive
error messages. See
information about VE_Ports.
The type of monitors supported depends on the ASIC.
ASICs.
Table 72

Types of monitors supported on B-Series switch models

Monitors:
4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch
8/8 SAN Switch, 8/24 SAN Switch,
8/80 SAN Switch
SAN Switch 4/32, 4/64 SAN
Switch, SAN Switch 4/32B, 400
Multi-protocol Router, and the 4/256
SAN Director
DC SAN Backbone Director (short
name, DC Director) and 8/40 SAN
Switch
CRC reports are accessed using Web Tools.
Advanced Performance Monitor commands are available only to users with the admin or switchAdmin
roles. Use the perfhelp command to display a list of commands associated with Advanced Performance
Monitoring. For detailed information on these commands, see the Fabric OS Command Reference.
"Configuring and monitoring FCIP extension
EE
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
services" on page 385 for more
Table 72 shows the monitors supported on different
Filter ISL Top Talker
Yes Yes No
Yes No Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes No Yes
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