Advanced Monitoring; Performance Graphs; Predefined Performance Graphs - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Performance Monitor overview

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, fabricadmin role, and properly configured user
defined roles.
The Advanced Monitoring option in the Performance Graphs window displays predefined reports
and filter-based performance monitoring. You can use this feature to track the following:
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For detailed information on performance monitoring, refer to the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide.

Performance graphs

Each performance graph is displayed individually in a window, so it can be minimized, maximized,
resized, and closed.
Graphs within the Performance Monitor window are updated every 30 seconds. When you first
display the graph or if you modify the graph (such as to add additional ports), you might have to
wait up to 30 seconds before the new values are shown.
When you have multiple graphs open in the Performance Monitor window, you can perform the
following tasks:
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In addition, the Window menu lists all open graphs. You can click Window, and then select a graph
name to view that graph.
The Tunnel and TCP Graph option in the Performance Graphs window displays real time
performance monitoring charts for Brocade 7800 Extension Switch and FX8-24 DCX Extension
Blade. This option is not available on other platforms.

Predefined performance graphs

Web Tools predefines basic graph types to simplify performance monitoring. A wide range of
end-to-end fabric, LUN, device, and port metrics graphs are included.
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graphs.
The advanced monitoring graphs give more detailed performance information to help you manage
your fabric. You can access the basic monitoring graphs on all switches; advanced monitoring
graphs are available only on switches that have a Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring
license activated.
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The number of words received and transmitted in Fibre Channel frames with a defined SID/DID
pair.
The number of times a particular filter pattern in a frame is transmitted by a port.
Select Window > Tile to view all graphs at once, tiled in the Performance Monitor window.
Select Window > Cascade to view one graph at a time.
Select Window > Close All to close all open Performance Monitor graphs in the Performance
Monitor window.
lists the basic monitoring graphs available. Table 12 lists the advanced monitoring
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