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Advanced Performance Monitoring
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Advanced Performance Monitoring
Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM) is a licensed feature that allows you to monitor traffic on
a specific port. This feature supports end to end and frame monitors.
The following licenses must be appropriately installed on the AG switch to use end-to-end and
frame monitors:
• APM
• Fabric Watch
You can use the following Fabric OS commands used to manage APM in switch mode to manage
end to end and frame monitoring in AG mode. Refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference Manual
and Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for details.
• perfAddEEMonitor
• perfMonitorClear
• perfMonitorShow --class EE <port#>
• perfResourceShow
• perfCfgSave
• perfCfgClear
• perfCfgRestore
• fmmonitor
You can also use Fabric Watch to configure thresholds corresponding to specific frame monitors
Refer to the Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide for details.
End-to-end monitors
End-to-end monitors measure the traffic between a host and target pair by counting the number of
words in Fibre Channel frames for a specified Source ID (SID) and Destination ID (DID) pair. An
end-to-end performance monitor includes these counts:
• RX_COUNT - Words in frames received at the port
• TX_COUNT - Words in frames transmitted from the port
To enable end-to-end performance monitoring, you must install an end-to-end monitor on an F_Port
using the perfAddEEMonitor command, specifying the SID-DID pair (in hexadecimal). End-to-end
monitoring on N-ports is not supported in AG mode. Complete details of the perfAddEEMonitor
command parameters are provided in the Fabric OS Command Reference Manual.
NOTE
End-to-end monitors are not supported on logical EX, VE, VEX, Mirror, or FCoE ports.
For more information on end-to-end monitoring, including the following topics, refer to the
“End-to-end performance monitoring” section in the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide:
• General feature information
• Fabric OS commands for end-to-end monitors
• The maximum number of end-to-end monitors per switch model
• Setting a mask for a monitor