Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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Top Talker monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394
Adding a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .395
Deleting a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .395
Displaying the top n bandwidth-using flows on an F_Port . . .395
Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric
(fabric mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .396
Deleting the fabric mode Top Talker monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . .396
Displaying top talking flows for a given domain ID
(fabric mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .396
Limitations of Top Talker monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Trunk monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Displaying monitor counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .398
Clearing monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .399
Saving and restoring monitor configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400
Performance data collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400
Chapter 18 Optimizing Fabric Behavior
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401
Adaptive Networking overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401
Top Talkers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402
Traffic Isolation Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402
TI zone failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .403
FSPF routing rules and traffic isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .404
Traffic Isolation Routing over FC routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406
TI within an edge fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407
TI within a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .408
Limitations of TI zones over FC routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
General rules for TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation Routing. . . . . . . . . .410
Trunking with TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Routing. . . . . . . . . 411
Admin Domain considerations for Traffic Isolation Routing. . . . . .411
Virtual Fabric considerations for Traffic Isolation Routing . . . . . . .412
Traffic Isolation Routing over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics . . . .413
Creating a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Creating a TI zone in a base fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .416
Modifying TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Changing the state of a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418
Deleting a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418
Displaying TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .419
Setting up TI over FCR (sample procedure). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .420