Chapter, Introducing advanced performance monitoring, Overview – HP StorageWorks 8B FC Entry Switch User Manual
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Advanced Performance Monitoring User’s Guide
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Introducing Advanced Performance Monitoring
This chapter provides the following information:
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Performance Monitoring with Telnet Commands
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Performance Monitoring with Web Tools
Overview
Advanced Performance Monitoring provides SAN performance management through an
end-to-end monitoring system that enables you to:
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Increase end-to-end visibility into the fabric
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Enable more accurate reporting for service level agreements and charged access applications
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Improve performance tuning and resource optimization
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Shorten troubleshooting time
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Promote better capacity planning
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Simplify administration and setup
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Increase productivity with preformatted and customizable screens and reports
Features
The Advanced Performance Monitoring product:
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Measures the bandwidth consumed by individual routes (host-target pairs)
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Provides device performance measurements by port, AL_PA, and LUN
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Reports CRC error measurement statistics
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Measures Trunking performance
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Compares IP vs. SCSI traffic on each port
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Includes a wide range of predefined reports
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Allows you to create customized user-defined reports
Administration
Advanced Performance Monitoring is an optionally licensed product that runs on FC Entry Switch
8B, FC Switch 8B, and FC 16B switches.