Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Performance monitors

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•To display data for a specific fabric or group, refer to “Setting the network scope” on page 220.

•To display data for a specific duration, refer to “Setting the data display time frame” on page 222.

•Sort the contents by clicking the column header. Click the same column header again to reverse the sort order.

Accessing additional data from the widget

•Right-click a row in the widget to access the shortcut menu available for the associated device.Right-click any row and select Locate to locate the particular device to which the port belongs in the Network Objects products list.

•Double-click a row to navigate to the Violations dialog box.

Performance monitors

The Performance Dashboard provides a high-level overview of the performance on the network. This allows you to easily check the performance of devices, ports, and traffic on the network. The Performance Dashboard also provides several features to help you quickly access performance metrics and reports.

The dashboards update every ten minutes regardless of the currently selected tab (IP) or the LAN size.

You can change the default size of the status widgets and performance monitors by placing the cursor on the divider until a double arrow displays. Click and drag the adjoining divider to resize the window.

Reset the Performance Dashboard back to the default size by right-clicking in the white space and selected Reset to Default.

	The Management application provides the following preconfigured performance monitors:
TABLE 23	Preconfigure performance monitors
Monitor title		Description	Data collectors
Top Port Alignment Errors		Table view of the alignment errors measure	All SAN TE port collector
Top Port C3 Discards		Table view of the C3 discards measure	All SAN FC port collector
Top Port C3 Discards RX TO		Table view of the C3 discards RX TO measure. There are	All SAN FC port collector
		four versions of this monitor based on the type of port: All
		ports, initiator ports, ISL ports, and Target ports.

Top Port CRC Errors	Table view of the CRC errors measure. There are four
	versions of this monitor based on the type of port: All
	ports, initiator ports, ISL ports, and Target ports.

All SAN FC port collector, All SAN TE port collector

Top Port Encode Error Out	Table view of the encode error out measure. There are four	All SAN FC port collector
	versions of this monitor based on the type of port: All
	ports, initiator ports, ISL ports, and Target ports.
Top Port Errors	Table view of the errors measure	Port error count collector
Top Port Overflow Errors	Table view of the overflow errors measure	All SAN TE port collector

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