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Monitoring Performance

In this chapter

Performance Monitor overview

The Web Tools Performance Monitoring tool graphically displays throughput (in megabytes per
second) for each port and for the entire switch. To utilize performance monitoring, the EGM license
must be enabled on the switch. Otherwise, when you select Performance Monitor tab, access to
this feature is denied and an error messages displays

Basic monitoring

The Basic Monitoring menu is standard in the Web Tools software. Any user logged into Web Tools
with an associated role of zoneadmin or securityadmin cannot open Performance Monitor. The
roles user, operator, and basicswitchadmin are allowed to perform basic monitoring tasks, except
save or display canvas operations in any Admin Domain context. Only users with the admin,
switchadmin and fabricadmin roles associated with their login accounts are able to save or display
a canvas. Use the Basic Monitoring option in the Performance Graphs window to do the following:
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Advanced monitoring

The Advanced Monitoring menu is an optionally licensed feature. To utilize the Advanced
Monitoring feature you must have a Performance Monitor license installed and you must log in
using an account with an admin, switchadmin, or fabricadmin role.
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Performance Monitor overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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Opening the Performance Monitoring window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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Creating basic performance monitor graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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Customizing basic monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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Advanced performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
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Tunnel and TCP performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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Saving graphs to a canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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Adding graphs to an existing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
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Printing graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
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Modifying graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Create user-definable reports.
Display a performance canvas for application-level or fabric-level views.
Save persistent graphs across restarts (saves parameter data across restarts).
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