Package Description
Historical Performance Monitoring
• Fibre Channel Statistics Monitoring-Performance statistics for Inter-Switch Links (ISLs), host and storage device connections, and traffic between specific Fibre Channel sources and destinations (flows) are monitored continuously with Cisco FMS.
• Performance Thresholds-Up to two different event thresholds can be set for each throughput statistic monitored by Cisco FMS. Threshold values can be set with user-specified levels or with baseline values automatically calculated from performance history.
• Reporting and Graphing-Historical performance reports and graphs over daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly intervals are available for network hotspot analysis. Top 10 and daily summary reports for all ISLs, hosts, storage connections, and flows provide fabricwide statistics.
• Intelligent Setup-Wizards are provided to quickly select information to monitor, set up flows, and estimate performance-database storage requirements. To further simplify use, statistics are associated with host and storage devices, allowing physical connections to switches to be changed without losing historical statistics.
• Performance Database-The compact, integrated Round Robin Database (RRD) maintains a constant size by rolling up information to reduce the number of discrete samples for the oldest data points; hence, it requires no manual storage-space maintenance.
Centralized Management Services
• Management Server-A server can be set up to continuously run Cisco Fabric Manager services. Up to 16 remote Cisco Fabric Manager user interface clients can access this management server concurrently.
• Web-Based Operational View-Historical performance statistics, storage-area-network (SAN) inventory, and fabric event information needed for day-to-day operations are accessible remotely through a Web-browser interface.
• Multiple-Fabrics Management-Multiple Fibre Channel fabrics can be monitored by each management server, facilitating rapid access to configuration parameters and topology maps for multiple fabrics.
• Continuous Health Monitoring-Cisco switch device health is monitored continuously by Cisco FMS using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps and polling, instead of only while the application user interface is open.
• Common Discovery-With Cisco FMS, Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA), storage device, and Fibre Channel switch discovery occurs as a background process in a centralized location for fast, efficient initialization of the Cisco Fabric Manager client-user interface.
• Roaming User Profiles-User preference settings and topology-map layout changes are applied whenever the Cisco Fabric Manager client is opened, maintaining a consistent interface regardless of which computer is used for management.
• FMS Proxy Services-The FMS proxy services help isolate a private IP network used for Cisco MDS management from the LAN or WAN used for remote connectivity, and these services enhance resiliency by transporting management traffic between the Cisco Fabric Manager client and server over TCP/IP.
Advanced Application Integration
• Cisco Traffic Analyzer Integration-In-context application launch of Cisco Traffic Analyzer with Fibre Channel device-naming information passing provides transparent drilldown to Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) I/O or Fibre Channel frame-level details.
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