Cisco Systems MDS 9000 Historical Performance Monitoring

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide

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Chapter 33 Performance Monitoring

Historical Performance Monitoring

Step 2 Choose the Poll Interval and how the data should be interpreted by clicking the Show Rx/Tx drop-down

menu.The table updates each polling interval to show an overview of the receive and transmit data for

each active port on the switch.

Step 3 Choose Show Rx/Tx > %Util/sec, and then choose the warning and critical threshold levels for event

reporting. You can also display the percent utilization for a port by selecting the port and clicking the

Monitor Selected Interface Traffic Util % icon.

Step 4 Click the Monitor Selected Interface Traffic Details icon if you want more detailed statistics on the

port.

The configurable monitor option per port gives statistics for in and out traffic on that port, errors, class

2 traffic and other data that can be graphed over a period of time to give a real-time view into the

performance of the port.

To configure per port monitoring in Device Manager, follow these steps:

Step 1 Right-click the port you are interested in and choose Monitor... from the options pop-up menu. You see

the port real-time monitor dialog box.

Step 2 Choose the Poll Interval and how the data should be interpreted using the drop-down menu.The table

updates each polling interval to show statistics for the selected port.

Step 3 Click a statistics value from the table and then click one of the graphing icons to display a running graph

of that statistic over time. You see a graph window that contains options to change the graph type.

Tip You can open multiple graphs for statistics on any of the active ports on the switch.

You can configure Fabric Manager to gather ISL statistics in real time. These ISL statistics include

receive and transmit utilization, bytes per second, as well as errors and discards per ISL.

To configure ISL statistics in Fabric Manager, follow these steps:

Step 1 Select Performance > ISL in Real-Time. ISL statistics display in the Information pane.

Step 2 Choose the Poll Interval and bandwidth utilization thresholds. The table updates each polling interval

to show statistics for all configured ISLs in the fabric.

Step 3 Select a row in the table to highlight that ISL in blue on the Topology map.

Historical Performance Monitoring

Performance Manager gathers network device statistics historically and provides this information

graphically using a web browser. It presents recent statistics in detail and older statistics in summary.

Performance Manager also integrates with external tools such as Cisco Traffic Analyzer.