Graphing Port Performance; Starting Hp Storageworks Fabric View - HP 2/8q Fibre Channel User Manual

Graphing port performance

The HP StorageWorks Fabric View application displays port performance using graphs. HP
StorageWorks Fabric View plots data communication rates and total errors for selected ports
as shown in
frames/second or KB/second.
Fabric status is displayed in text format after the fabric name in the fabric tree. The color of the
icon indicates the current connection status as normal (green), warning (yellow), critical (red),
or unmanageable (blue).
Figure 34: Fabric View graphs
This section describes the following:

Starting HP StorageWorks Fabric View

To start HP StorageWorks Fabric View from within Switch Manager, open the topology
display and then select Fabric > Start Fabric View.
HP StorageWorks 2/8q Fibre Channel Switch Management User Guide
Figure 34. When graphing data communication rates, you can choose either
Starting HP StorageWorks Fabric
Exiting HP StorageWorks Fabric
Saving and opening Fabric View
Changing the Default Fabric View File encryption
Setting HP StorageWorks Fabric View
Setting the polling frequency, page 93
Displaying graphs, page 94
Arranging graphs in the
Customizing graphs, page 94
Printing graphs, page 96
Rescaling a selected graph, page 96
Saving graph statistics to a
View, page 91
View, page 92
files, page 92
preferences, page 93
display, page 94
file, page 96
key, page 93
Switch Manager
91