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SAN monitoring

SAN UI

It uses either SNMP or Brocade Network Advisor as data source.
You can see all features on our free demo site.

Monitored devices

  • Brocade and its re-brands
  • Brocade Network Advisor
  • Brocade SANnav
  • Cisco MDS
  • Cisco Nexus
  • QLogic

Feature matrix

total

fabric

switch

port

metrics

Port SAN switch port Data in/out
Frames in/out
BB credits
CRC errors
Port
aggregated
SAN switch port agg
Switch
aggregated
SAN switch agg SAN fabric agg
ISL
aggregated
SAN ISL agg
Graph examples show only "data in" metric.

Monitored metrics

  • Data throughput [MB/sec]
  • Frame throughput [frames/sec]
  • Errors: CRC, encoding, enc out, disc c3 frames, link fail, loss sync [frames/sec]
  • CPU, Memory usage
  • Buffer credits usage

Aggregated graphs per

  • Port
  • Switch
  • Fabric
  • All switches total
  • ISL (Inter Switch Link)

Additional features

  • Brocade vFabric support
  • Cisco VSAN support
  • Fabric configuration (aliases, zones, ... only for Cisco switches)
  • Graphical healthcheck (HW or logical issues on ports or switches)
  • Historical reporting
  • Alerting: performance metrics
  • Alerting: HW issues
  • Zone configuration (only via BNA)
How it works
SAN monitoring - schema