Chapter

Network Monitoring

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In this chapter

Basic system management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

RMON support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

sFlow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Utilization list for an uplink port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Table 52 lists the Brocade ICX 6650 switch and the network monitoring features the switch supports. These features are supported in full Layer 3 software images, except where explicitly noted.

TABLE 52 Supported network monitoring features

Feature

Brocade ICX

 

6650

 

 

Egress queue counters

Yes

 

 

Remote monitoring (RMON)

Yes

 

 

Specifying the maximum number of

Yes

entries allowed in the RMON Control Table

 

 

 

sFlow version 2

Yes

 

 

sFlow version 5 (default)

Yes

 

 

sFlow support for IPv6 packets

Yes

 

 

Uplink utilization lists

Yes

 

 

Basic system management

The following sections contain procedures for basic system management tasks.

Viewing system information

You can access software and hardware specifics for a Brocade Layer 2 Switch or Layer 3 Switch. For software specifics, refer to “Software versions installed and running on a device” on page 50.

To view the software and hardware details for the system, enter the show version command. The following shows an example output.

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