Perfcfgsave - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Command Reference Manual

perfCfgSave

Saves performance monitoring configuration settings to nonvolatile memory.
Synopsis perfcfgsave
Description Use this command to save the current Performance Monitor configuration for end-to-end (EE) and
filter configuration settings of performance monitoring into nonvolatile memory. Configurations are
saved persistently across power cycles.
The number of monitors that can be saved to flash memory is limited as follows:
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When there are more than 512 monitors in the system, monitors are saved to the flash in the
following order:
1. For each port (from 0 to MAX_PORT), the EE monitors in each port are saved to the flash first.
2. Filter monitors for each port are saved next.
When the total monitors per port or switch exceeds the limit, the following message is displayed:
"Performance monitor count has exceeded limit. some monitors have been discarded."
Notes This command requires an Advanced Performance Monitoring license.
This command is not supported on virtual FC ports (VE/VEX_Port), EX_Port, M (Mirror) ports and
GbE ports.
Monitors created by Web Tools are not saved in persistent memory.
The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.
Operands none
Examples To save the current performance monitoring configuration to firmware:
See Also perfCfgClear, perfCfgRestore
Fabric OS Command Reference
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16 EE monitors
16 filter monitors
A total number of 512 monitors per switch
switch:admin> perfcfgsave
This will overwrite previously saved Performance Monitoring
settings in FLASH. Do you want to continue? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Please wait ...
Performance monitoring configuration saved in FLASH.
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