Advanced Performance Monitoring; End-To-End Monitors - HP StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Advanced Performance Monitoring

Advanced Performance Monitoring

Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM) is a licensed feature that allows you to monitor traffic on
a specific port. This feature supports end to end and frame monitors.
The following licenses must be appropriately installed on the AG switch to use end-to-end and
frame monitors:
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You can use the following Fabric OS commands used to manage APM in switch mode to manage
end to end and frame monitoring in AG mode. Refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference Manual
and Fabric OS Administrator's Guide for details.
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You can also use Fabric Watch to configure thresholds corresponding to specific frame monitors
Refer to the Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide for details.

End-to-end monitors

End-to-end monitors measure the traffic between a host and target pair by counting the number of
words in Fibre Channel frames for a specified Source ID (SID) and Destination ID (DID) pair. An
end-to-end performance monitor includes these counts:
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To enable end-to-end performance monitoring, you must install an end-to-end monitor on an F_Port
using the perfAddEEMonitor command, specifying the SID-DID pair (in hexadecimal). End-to-end
monitoring on N-ports is not supported in AG mode. Complete details of the perfAddEEMonitor
command parameters are provided in the Fabric OS Command Reference Manual.
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End-to-end monitors are not supported on logical EX, VE, VEX, Mirror, or FCoE ports.
For more information on end-to-end monitoring, including the following topics, refer to the
"End-to-end performance monitoring" section in the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide:
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APM
Fabric Watch
perfAddEEMonitor
perfMonitorClear
perfMonitorShow --class EE <port#>
perfResourceShow
perfCfgSave
perfCfgClear
perfCfgRestore
fmmonitor
RX_COUNT - Words in frames received at the port
TX_COUNT - Words in frames transmitted from the port
General feature information
Fabric OS commands for end-to-end monitors
The maximum number of end-to-end monitors per switch model
Setting a mask for a monitor
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