Creating Basic Performance Monitor Graphs; Customizing Basic Monitoring Graphs - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

Creating basic performance monitor graphs

Use the following procedure to create the basic performance monitor graphs listed in
page 105.
1. Open the Performance Monitoring window.
2. Select Performance Graphs > Basic Monitoring > Graph Type.
3. If prompted, drag the port into the Enter/drag slot,port field, or manually enter the slot and
4. Click OK.

Customizing basic monitoring graphs

You can customize some of the basic performance monitoring graphs to display information for
particular ports. For the Brocade 48000 and Brocade DCX and DCX-4S enterprise-class platforms,
you can also customize these graphs to display information for a slot.
You can customize the following graphs:
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The following procedure assumes that you already created one of these customizable graphs.
1. Create or access the graph you want to customize.
2. For Brocade 48000 and Brocade DCX and DCX-4S enterprise-class platforms, display the
3. To display detailed port throughput utilization rates for particular ports only, right-click
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Depending on the type of graph you select, you might be prompted to select a slot or port for
which to create a graph.
port information in the field, in the format slot,port.
NOTE
For Brocade 200E, 300, 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024, 4100, 4900, 5000, 5100, 5300,
7600 switches, the 7500, 7500E and 7800 Extension switches, the 8000, and the Encryption
Switch, enter only a port number.
The graph is displayed in a window in the Performance Monitoring window.
Switch Throughput Utilization
Switch Percent Utilization
Port Snapshot Error
Refer to

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a graph.
detailed port throughput utilization rates for each port in a slot by clicking the arrows next to a
slot. The port information for that slot displays in the graph.
NOTE
For Brocade 200E, 300 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024, 4100, 4900, 5000, 5100, 5300,
7600, the 7500, 7500E, and 7800 Extension switches, the 8000, and the Brocade Encryption
Switch, proceed to step 3.
anywhere in the graph and click Select Ports.
The setup dialog box displays, as shown in
Creating basic performance monitor graphs
on page 109 for instructions on creating
Figure 36.
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Table 10 on
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