Brocade Communications Systems Network Advisor 12.3.0, User Manual

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Chapter 27 Fibre Channel Troubleshooting
FC troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053
Tracing FC routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054
Troubleshooting device connectivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056
Confirming Fabric Device Sharing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1057
Troubleshooting port diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1058
Configuring link traffic test parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1061
FCIP troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062
Configuring IP ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062
Tracing IP routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064
Viewing FCIP tunnel performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065
Chapter 28 Performance Data
SAN performance overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067
SAN performance measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1068
SAN performance management requirements . . . . . . . . . . .1070
SAN real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1074
Generating a real-time performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . 1074
Filtering real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076
Exporting real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077
Clearing port counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1078
SAN historical performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1078
Enabling SAN-wide historical performance collection. . . . . .1079
Enabling historical performance collection for
selected fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1079
Disabling historical performance collection . . . . . . . . . . . . .1081
Generating and saving a historical performance graph . . . .1081
Exporting historical performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1086
Deleting a favorite graph configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1086
Performance database views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1087
How to extract performance statistics data from
the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1087
Performance statistics counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088
SAN end-to-end monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090
Configuring an end-to-end monitor pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a real-time graph . . 1093
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a historical graph. . 1093
Refreshing end-to-end monitor pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1094
Deleting an end-to-end monitor pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1094
SAN Top Talker monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095
Configuring a fabric mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . 1096
Configuring an F_Port mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . 1098
Deleting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099
Pausing a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099
Restarting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100
Bottleneck detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100
Supported configurations for bottleneck detection. . . . . . . .1101
How bottlenecks are reported. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1101