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

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Chapter

Administering Advanced Performance Monitoring

In this chapter

•Advanced Performance Monitoring overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

•End-to-end performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

•Filter-based performance monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

•ISL performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

•Top Talker monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

•Trunk monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

•Displaying monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

•Clearing monitor counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

•Saving and restoring monitor configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

•Performance data collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Advanced Performance Monitoring overview

Advanced Performance Monitoring is a licensed feature that provides a comprehensive tool for

monitoring the performance of networked storage resources. Additional performance monitoring

features, such as CRC error reports, are provided through Web Tools and DCFM. See the Web Tools

Administrator’s Guide and DCFM User’s Manual for information about monitoring performance

using a graphical interface.

Advanced Performance Monitor commands are available only to users with the admin or

switchAdmin roles. Use the perfhelp command to display a list of commands associated with

Advanced Performance Monitoring.

NOTE

The command examples in this chapter use the slot/port syntax required by Brocade 48000,

Brocade DCX, and DCX-4S platforms. For Brocade 300, 4100, 4900, 5000, 5100, 5300, 5410,

5424, 5450, 5480, 7500, 7500E, 7600, 7800, 8000, and the Brocade Encryption Switch, use only

the port number where needed in the commands.

Types of monitors

Advanced Performance Monitoring provides the following monitors:

• End-to-End monitors measure the traffic between a host/target pair.

• Filter-based monitors measure the traffic transmitted through a port with specific values in the

first 64 bytes of the frame.