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Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide 73
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Statistics
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Statistics
You can access a variety of statistics using BCU commands and HCM. Use these statistics to
monitor adapter performance and traffic between the adapter and LUNs and isolate areas that
impact performance and device login.
You can display statistics for the following:
• Adapter ports
• Authentication activities
• DCB
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Firmware
• vHBA
• vNIC
• Virtual ports (vport)
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
• Logical ports (lport)
• Remote ports (rport)
• Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) initiator mode
• Fabric
• Teaming
• Targets
• Teaming
• Trunking
• Real-time performance of DCB port
• Security authentication
• VLAN
• vHBA
This section provides an overview of these statistics and how to access them. For more detail, refer
to the Brocade Adapter’s Adapters Administrator’s Guide.
Authentication statistics
Use BCU commands and HCM to display statistics related to transmitted and received DH-CHAP
attempts for a selected port. You can display statistics such as the following:
• The number of times security authentication failed
• The number of times security authentication succeeded
• The number of rejected transmitted Fibre Channel authentication attempts (Tx Auth Rjts)
• The number of transmitted Fibre Channel authentication negotiation attempts (Tx Auth Negs)
• The number of completed Fibre Channel authentication negotiation attempts (Tx Auth Dones)
• The number of transmitted DH-CHAP replies (Tx DHCHAP)
• The number of transmitted DH-CHAP challenge attempts (Tx DHCHAP Challenges)