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Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

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Supported topologies for ICL connections.................................................... 487

Mesh topology...................................................................................487
Core-edge topology...........................................................................489

Monitoring Fabric Performance............................................................................................. 491

Advanced Performance Monitoring overview................................................491

Types of monitors..............................................................................491
Restrictions for installing monitors.................................................... 492
Virtual Fabrics considerations for Advanced Performance

Monitoring....................................................................................492

Access Gateway considerations for Advanced Performance

Monitoring....................................................................................493

End-to-end performance monitoring............................................................. 493

Maximum number of EE monitors.....................................................493
Supported port configurations for EE monitors................................. 494
Adding EE monitors.......................................................................... 494
Setting a mask for an EE monitor..................................................... 495
Deleting EE monitors........................................................................ 496
Displaying EE monitor counters........................................................ 496
Clearing EE monitor counters........................................................... 497

Frame monitoring.......................................................................................... 497

License requirements for frame monitoring.......................................498
Creating frame types to be monitored...............................................498
Creating a frame monitor.................................................................. 499
Deleting frame types......................................................................... 499
Adding frame monitors to a port........................................................500
Removing frame monitors from a port...............................................500
Saving a frame monitor configuration............................................... 500
Displaying frame monitors.................................................................501
Clearing frame monitor counters.......................................................501

Top Talker monitors...................................................................................... 501

Top Talker monitors and FC-FC routing........................................... 503
Limitations of Top Talker monitors.................................................... 505
Adding a Top Talker monitor to a port (port mode)........................... 505
Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric (fabric

mode).......................................................................................... 505

Displaying the top bandwidth-using flows on a port (port mode)...... 506
Displaying top talking flows for a given domain ID (fabric mode)......506
Deleting a Top Talker monitor on a port (port mode)........................ 506
Deleting all fabric mode Top Talker monitors....................................507

Trunk monitoring........................................................................................... 507

Trunk monitoring considerations....................................................... 507

Saving and restoring monitor configurations.................................................507
Performance data collection..........................................................................508

Managing Trunking Connections........................................................................................... 509

Trunking overview......................................................................................... 509

Types of trunking...............................................................................509
Masterless trunking........................................................................... 510
License requirements for trunking.....................................................510
Port groups for trunking.....................................................................511

Supported platforms for trunking...................................................................511
Supported configurations for trunking........................................................... 511

High Availability support for trunking.................................................512

Requirements for trunk groups......................................................................512
Recommendations for trunk groups.............................................................. 512

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