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17 Administering Advanced Performance Monitoring This chapter describes the Advanced Performance Monitoring licensed feature. About Advanced Performance Monitoring Additional performance monitoring features are provided through Web Tools. See the Web Tools Administrator's Guide for information about monitoring performance using the Web Tools GUI. Based on Brocade Frame Filtering technology and a unique performance counter engine, Advanced Performance Monitoring is a comprehensive tool for monitoring the performance of networked storage resources. Advanced Performance Monitoring provides the following monitors: • End-to-End monitor-Measures the traffic between a host/target pair. • Filter-based monitor-Measures the traffic transmitted through a port with specific values in the first 64 bytes of the frame. • ISL monitoring -Measures the traffic transmitted through an InterSwitch Link (ISL) to different destination domains. • AL_PA monitoring-Reports cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error measurement statistics for an AL_PA. • Top Talker monitoring -Measures the flows that are major consumers of bandwidth on a port. NOTE: Advanced Performance Monitoring is not supported on VE_Ports (virtual FC_Ports) and EX_Ports. If you issue commands for any Advanced Performance Monitors on VE_Ports or EX_Ports you will receive error messages. See "Configuring and Monitoring FCIP Extension Services" on page 435 for more information about VE_Ports. The type of monitors supported depends on the ASIC. Table 72 shows the monitors supported on different ASICs. Table 72 Types of monitors supported on B-Series switch models Monitors: EE Filter ISL Top Talker 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch Yes Yes Yes No 8/8 SAN Switch, 8/24 SAN Switch, Yes Yes No Yes 8/80 SAN Switch SAN Switch 4/32, 4/64 SAN Yes Yes Yes Yes Switch, SAN Switch 4/32B, 400 Multi-protocol Router, and the 4/256 SAN Director DC SAN Backbone Director (short Yes Yes No Yes name, DC Director) and 8/40 SAN Switch CRC reports are accessed using Web Tools. Advanced Performance Monitor commands are available only to users with the admin or switchAdmin roles. Use the perfhelp command to display a list of commands associated with Advanced Performance Monitoring. For detailed information on these commands, see the Fabric OS Command Reference. Fabric OS 6.1.x administrator guide 329