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DATA CENTER TECHNICAL BRIEF
Operational Simplicity: Automating and Simplifying SAN Provisioning 12 of 15
ConguringforThreshold-basedMonitoring
Prior to deploying the SAN into production, administrators can take advantage of MAPS to set up and enable
threshold-based rules and policies for proactive monitoring and alerting. Customers currently using Brocade
Fabric Watch can automatically import existing thresholds into a MAPS policy, enabling seamless migration from
Fabric Watch to MAPS. New MAPS users can simply use the pre-dened groups and select one of the pre-dened
monitoring policies—Aggressive, Moderate, or Conservative—and enable that policy for each logical switch in the
fabric. If a custom policy is needed, users can simply copy an existing policy and modify the rules and actions to t
the environment. Using Brocade Network Advisor, administrators can further reduce conguration time by deploying
MAPS policies and rules across the fabric, or even multiple fabrics, from a single dialog.
USECASE:POST-DEPLOYMENTOFPRIVATECLOUDINFRASTRUCTURE
MonitoringSANHealthandPerformance
Once the MAPS threshold-based policies are enabled and the SAN goes into production, proactive monitoring of
the health and performance of the SAN becomes critical. Brocade tools such as MAPS, Flow Vision, Bottleneck
Detection, and Brocade Network Advisor allow administrators to proactively monitor the health and performance
of the SAN infrastructure and be alerted when pre-dened thresholds are exceeded, allowing them to address
problems before they impact operations. Administrators can quickly see trends and issues that may impact
availability as well as latency and bottlenecks in the fabric that could degrade application performance. With
customizable health and performance dashboards (Figure 7), administrators have all critical information available
in one screen, allowing them to take the proactive actions needed to ensure availability and optimize resources.
Figure 7. Brocade Network Advisor health and performance dashboards provide all critical information in one view.