HP StorageWorks MSA 2/8 - SAN Switch User Manual page 40

Using Advanced Performance Monitoring
Monitor 0 counts the frames that have an SID of 0x051200 and a DID of
0x111eef. For monitor 0, RX_COUNT is the number of words from Host A to
Dev B, CRC_COUNT is the number of frames in both directions with CRC
errors, and TX_COUNT is the number of words from Dev B to Host A.
Monitor 1 counts the frames that have an SID of 0x111eef and a DID of
0x051200. For monitor 1, RX_COUNT is the number of words from Dev B to
Host A, CRC_COUNT is the number of frames in both directions with CRC
errors, and TX_COUNT is the number of words from Host A to Dev B.
Note:
respective to the SID only. Using
port 2 specifying Dev B as the SID and Host A as the DID, no counters are incremented.
Figure 10
performance monitors for a specified SID-DID pair.
Figure 10: Proper placement of end-to-end performance monitors
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sw1:admin> perfAddEEMonitor 1,2, "0x051200" "0x111eef"
End-to-End monitor number 0 added.
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sw2:admin> perfAddEEMonitor 2,15, "0x111eef" "0x051200"
End-to-End monitor number 1 added.
End-to-end performance monitoring monitors traffic on the receiving port
shows several switches and the proper ports on which to add
SID
0x051200
Host
. . .
A
DID
0x051200
Host
. . .
A
Advanced Performance Monitoring Version 3.1.x/4.1.x User Guide
Figure 9 as an example, if you add a monitor to slot 1,
Add monitors here
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Add monitors here
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DID
0x111eef
. . .
Dev
B
SID
0x111eef
. . .
Dev
B