Brocade Flow Vision Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 4)

Creating Flow Monitor learning flows................................................37
Learning Flow creation on offline or slave ports............................... 38
Flow Monitor learning on E_Ports and EX_Ports..............................38
Configuring Flow Monitor for a trunk group...................................................39
Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics.......................................................40
Monitoring FC router fabrics using port WWNs.................................40
Monitoring Fibre Channel router fabrics using proxy IDs .................45
XISL and Backbone E_Port monitoring........................................................ 50
Flow Monitor examples ................................................................................ 52
Monitoring LUN level statistics..........................................................52
Viewing summary flow data for a specific device pair ......................52
Monitoring flows using the learning functionality ..............................53
XISL_Port or Backbone E_Port flow examples.................................54
Legacy use case monitoring............................................................. 55
Flow Monitor and High Availability................................................................ 57
Flow monitors and MAPS..............................................................................57
Flow monitors on Access Gateways............................................................. 57
Flow Monitor limitations.................................................................................57
Flow Generator..................................................................................................................... 59
Overview of Flow Generator ........................................................................ 59
Flow Generator setup........................................................................60
Predefined Flow Generator flows......................................................60
Creating Flow Generator flows......................................................................63
Parameter usage exceptions............................................................ 64
Creating an inactive flow in Flow Generator..................................... 64
Activating Flow Generator flows....................................................................65
Automatic activation of a Flow Generator flow..................................65
Learning in Flow Generator flows................................................................. 65
Viewing Flow Generator flows.......................................................................66
Displaying the status of a single Flow Generator flow...................... 66
Viewing the output of a learned Flow Generator flow....................... 66
Notes on displaying the status of a Flow Generator flow..................66
Deactivating Flow Generator flows............................................................... 67
Customizing Flow Generator flows............................................................... 67
Frame payload size ..........................................................................67
Frame payload pattern .....................................................................68
Flow Generator examples ............................................................................68
Creating a flow from a specific source ID to a specific
destination ID...............................................................................68
Integrating Flow Generator with Flow Monitor.................................. 69
Commands related to Flow Generator .........................................................70
SIM port attributes and configuration............................................................ 71
SIM port criteria.................................................................................71
Identifying SIM ports......................................................................... 72
Sending traffic using a Fabric Assigned WWN............................................. 73
Flow Generator and High Availability............................................................73
Flow Generator and MAPS........................................................................... 73
Flow Generator limitations and considerations............................................. 74
Flow Mirror........................................................................................................................... 75
Overview of Flow Mirror................................................................................ 75
Creating Flow Mirror flows............................................................................ 76
Flow Mirror limitations and restrictions..............................................77
Local flow mirroring...........................................................................78
Creating an inactive flow in Flow Mirror............................................ 80
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