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Chapter

Network Monitoring

Table 24 lists the individual FastIron switches and the network monitoring features they support.

These features are supported in the Layer 2 and Layer 3 software images, except where explicitly

noted.

This chapter contains the following sections:

•Basic system management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

•RMON support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

•sFlow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

•Utilization list for an uplink port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Basic system management

The following sections contain procedures for basic system management tasks.

Viewing system information

You can access software and hardware specifics for a Brocade Layer 2 Switch or Layer 3 Switch.

For software specifics, refer to “Software versions installed and running on a device” on page 72.

To view the software and hardware details for the system, enter the show version command. The

following shows an example output.

TABLE 24 Supported network monitoring features

Feature FSX 800

FSX 1600

FCX ICX 6610 ICX 6430 ICX 6450

Traffic counters for outbound traffic Yes No No Yes Yes

Egress queue counters No Yes Yes No No

Remote monitoring (RMON) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Specifying the maximum number of

entries allowed in the RMON Control Table

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

sFlow version 2 Yes Yes Yes No Yes

sFlow version 5 (default) Yes Yes Yes No Yes

sFlow support for IPv6 packets Yes Yes Yes No Yes

Uplink utilization lists Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes