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Viewing installed licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .375
Activating a license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .375
Adding a licensed feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Removing a licensed feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
Activating Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .379
Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .379
Displaying the port license assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .379
Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380
Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380
Reserving a port license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381
Releasing a port from a POD set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .382

Chapter 17 Monitoring Fabric Performance

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .383
Advanced Performance Monitoring overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .383
Types of monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .383
Virtual Fabrics considerations for Advanced Performance Monitoring
384
End-to-end performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385
End-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385
Adding end-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .386
Setting a mask for an end-to-end monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387
Deleting end-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .388
Frame monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .389
Creating frame types to be monitored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .390
Deleting frame types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391
Adding frame monitors to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391
Removing frame monitors from a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391
Saving frame monitor configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391
Displaying frame monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .392
Clearing frame monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .392
ISL performance monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
Top Talker monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
Adding a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394
Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric (fabric mode)
394
Displaying the top n bandwidth-using flows on an F_Port . . .395
Displaying top talking flows for a given domain ID (fabric mode)396
Deleting a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .396
Deleting the fabric mode Top Talker monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . .396
Limitations of Top Talker monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Trunk monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Displaying end-to-end and ISL monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Clearing end-to-end and ISL monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .398
Saving and restoring monitor configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .399