Monitoring Resources - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

2. Type the following command:
fcr:admin> fcrbcastconfig --disable -f <fabric id>
where <fabric id> is the specified FID where you want to disable frame forwarding. This command
disables the broadcast frame forwarding option for an FID (edge or backbone fabric).

Monitoring resources

It is possible to exhaust resources, such as proxy PIDs. Whenever a resource is exhausted, Fabric OS
generates an error message. The messages are described in the Fabric OS Message Reference.
You can monitor 400 MP Router and 4/256 SAN Director or DC Director with an FR4- 1 8i blade resources
using the fcrResourceShow command. The fcrResourceShow command shows FCR resource limits
and usage and includes:
• LSAN zones and LSAN devices—The information shows the maximum versus the currently used zones
and device database entry. LSAN is the count of LSANs in all the edge fabrics. If they are defined in
two edge fabrics, they are counted as two and not one. One device imported into multiple edge fabrics
counts multiple times.
In Fabric OS 5.3.0 and later, you can have 3,000 LSAN zones configurable up to a maximum of
5,000. On a dual CP switch, both CPs must have v5.3.0 code or later to select 5000. If the active CP
is running Fabric OS v5.3.0 or later with a maximum count of 5000 LSANs and the standby CP is
running an earlier firmware version, then HA synchronization will fail. If 5000 is selected before
downgrading to an earlier version of Fabric OS, you will be asked to go back to the default maximum
LSAN count of 3000.
• Proxy Device Slots—The display shows the maximum versus the currently used proxy device slots. A
proxy device is presented to an edge fabric as being connected to a translate domain slot. A slot is the
port number and AL_PA combination. The slot-to-device WWN association is persistently stored. The
physical and proxy devices use the 10000 device slots.
• Displays the maximum pool size for translate phantom node and port WWNs and shows the number
of translate node and port WWNs from this pool.
• Phantom Node WWN—The display shows the maximum versus the currently allocated phantom switch
node WWNs. The phantom switch requires node WWNs for FSPF and manageability purposes.
Phantom node names are allocated from the pool sequentially and are not reused until the pool is
exhausted and rolls over. The last allocated phantom node WWN is persistently stored.
If the switch is disabled, the phantom node WWNs are not returned to the pool until the system
reboots, because the phantom switch could still be accessible through other switches. Across a switch
reboot, the allocation starts from the next usable WWN from the pool and not from the beginning.
• Phantom Port WWNs—The display shows the maximum versus the currently used phantom domain
port WWNs. Phantom domain ports require port WWNs for manageability purposes. Phantom
domain ports include ports connecting front and translate domains (virtual ISLs), translate domain ports
for proxy devices, and EX_Ports. Phantom port names are allocated from the pool sequentially and are
not resumed until the pool is exhausted and rolls over. The last allocated phantom port WWN is
persistently stored.
If the switch is disabled, phantom port WWNs are not returned to the pool until the system reboots,
because the phantom switch may still be accessible through other switches. Across the switch reboot,
the allocation starts from the next usable WWN base from the pool and not from the beginning.
• Max proxy devices—The maximum versus the currently used proxy devices.
• Max NR_Port—The maximum versus the currently used NR_Port entries. Destination NR_Port entries are
stored at every physical port for routing decision purposes.
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