San Top Talker Monitoring - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B User Manual

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SAN Top Talker monitoring

2. Select the end-to-end monitor pair you want to delete from the Monitored Pairs table.
3. Click Delete Monitor.
4. Click OK.

SAN Top Talker monitoring

Here are some important notes for using this feature:
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Advanced Performance Monitoring enables you to create Top Talker monitors on selected devices.
Use Top Talkers to display the connections which are using the most bandwidth on the selected
device or port. Top Talkers can be enabled on the device or one of the F_ports on the device. You
can only use Top Talkers to view real-time performance data. Data is only collected while the Top
Talkers dialog box is open; it is not persisted in the database.
You can have multiple Top Talker monitors configured at the same time. You can monitor up to 10
switches for Fabric mode Top Talkers and 32 ports and 10 switches for F_Port Top Talkers;
however, you can only monitor one device or port for each Top Talker you configure.
NOTE
If the Fabric OS device is configured for Fibre Channel routing (FCR), you can only configure a Top
Talker monitor on the following devices:
- 16 Gbps Backbone Chassis with a FC 16 Gbps 32-port or 48-port blade
- 16 Gbps 48-port switch
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Top Talkers requires the Advance Performance Monitoring (APM) license on the device.
Top Talkers cannot be enabled on a single-switch fabric.
Top Talkers requires Fabric OS version 6.2 or later.
A Top Talker monitor and a end-to-end monitor cannot be configured on the same external
F-port ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit). You must delete the end-to-end monitor
before you configure the Top Talker monitor.
On the 8 Gbps 8-FC port, 10 GbE 24-DCB port Switch, Top Talkers is only supported on the
8 Gbps FC Ports.
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