HP StorageWorks MSA 2/8 - SAN Switch User manual

user guide
hp StorageWorks
advanced performance
monitoring version 3.1.x/4.1.x
Product Version: 3.1.x/4.1.x
Third Edition (June 2003)
Part Number: AA–RTS4C–TE
This user guide provides an overview of and installation instructions for Advanced Performance
Monitoring. In addition, this guide provides information on configuring and using the
Advanced Performance Monitoring telnet commands.

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Advanced Performance Monitoring Version 3.1.x/4.1.x User Guide
Third Edition (June 2003)
Part Number: AA–RTS4C–TE

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Contents
About this Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Text Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
HP Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
HP Storage Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
HP Authorized Reseller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1 Introducing Advanced Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Terminology Used in this Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2 Activating Advanced Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Verifying Activated Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Activating the License Using Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Activating the License Using Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3 Using Advanced Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Managing Performance Monitoring Using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Accessing Performance Monitoring using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using Performance Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
User-defined Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Performance Graph Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring a Performance Graph Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Adding Graphs to a Canvas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Saving Canvas Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Printing All Graphs on a Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Managing Performance Monitoring with Telnet Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
AL_PA Error Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
End-to-end Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Filter-based Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Telnet Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using AL_PA Error Performance Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Displaying the CRC Error Count. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Clearing the CRC Error Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using End-to-end Performance Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Adding End-to-end Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Setting a Mask for End-to-end Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Displaying the End-to-end Mask of a Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Displaying End-to-end Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Deleting End-to-end Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Clearing End-to-end Monitor Counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using Filter-based Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Adding Standard Filter-Based Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Adding User-Defined Filter-Based Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Displaying Filter-Based Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Deleting Filter-Based Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Clearing Filter-Based Monitor Counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Saving and Restoring Monitor Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Resource Usage for End-to-end and Filter-based monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Figures
1 Switch View in Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2 Performance Monitor window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3 Accessing pre-defined performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4 User-defined graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
5 Types of performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
6 Advanced Performance Monitoring resource usage display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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7 Canvas of eight performance monitoring graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8 Saved canvas configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
9 Setting end-to-end monitors on a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
10 Proper placement of end-to-end performance monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
11 Mask positions for end-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tables
1 Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3 Pre-defined Performance Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4 Telnet Commands to Add Filter-based Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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about this
guide
About this Guide
About this Guide
This user guide provides information to help you:
■Understand and install Advanced Performance Monitoring
■Configure and use the Advanced Performance Monitoring telnet commands
■Contact technical support for additional assistance
“About this Guide” topics include:
■Overview, page 8
■Conventions, page 9
■Getting Help, page 11

About this Guide
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Overview
This section covers the following topics:
■Intended Audience
■Related Documentation
Intended Audience
This book is intended for use by system administrators who are experienced with
the following:
■HP StorageWorks Fibre Channel SAN switches
■Fabric Operating System (FOS) V3.1.x or later
Related Documentation
For a list of related documents included with this product, see the Related
Documents section of the Release Notes that came with your switch.
For the latest information, documentation, and firmware releases, please visit the
following StorageWorks website:
http://www.hp.com/country/us/eng/
prodserv/storage.html
For information about Fibre Channel standards, visit the Fibre Channel
Association website, located at:
http://www.fibrechannel.org .

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Conventions
Conventions consist of the following:
■Document Conventions
■Text Symbols
Document Conventions
The document conventions included in Table 1 apply in most cases.
Text Symbols
The following symbols may be found in the text of this guide. They have the
following meanings.
WARNING: Text set off in this manner indicates that failure to follow
directions in the warning could result in bodily harm or death.
Caution: Text set off in this manner indicates that failure to follow directions
could result in damage to equipment or data.
Table 1: Document Conventions
Element Convention
Cross-reference links Blue text: Figure 1
Key and field names, menu items,
buttons, and dialog box titles Bold
File names, application names, and text
emphasis
Italics
User input, command and directory
names, and system responses (output
and messages)
Monospace font
COMMAND NAMES are uppercase
monospace font unless they are
case-sensitive
Variables <monospace, italic font>
Website addresses Blue, underlined sans serif font text:
http://www.hp.com

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Note: Text set off in this manner presents commentary, sidelights, or interesting points
of information.