Pausing a top talker monitor, Restarting a top talker monitor – Brocade Network Advisor SAN + IP User Manual v12.1.0 User Manual

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Pausing a Top Talker monitor

Procedures in this section pertain to pausing monitors created on systems using the legacy Top
Talkers feature and not those created with Flow Vision.

For systems using Fabric OS version 7.2 or later, when you select a device or device port, and then
select Monitor > Performance > Top Talkers, a message displays that you can use Flow Vision to
provide Top Talkers monitoring. You have these options:

To use Flow Vision, delete existing monitors, then use the Add Flow Definition dialog box to
define an initiator and target port pair for monitoring. Refer to

Chapter 44, “Flow Vision”

for

more information.

Clicking OK opens the legacy Top Talkers dialog box. To use the legacy Top Talkers feature, you
must deactivate existing flows defined for the switch for Flow Vision.

To pause a Top Talker monitor on systems using Fabric OS before 7.2, complete the following steps.

1. Select the dialog box of the Top Talker monitor you want to pause.

Refer to steps 1-5 under

“Configuring a fabric mode Top Talker monitor”

on page 1483 or

“Configuring an F_Port mode Top Talker monitor”

on page 1485 to display this dialog box.

2. Click Pause at the top of the dialog box.

Restarting a Top Talker monitor

Procedures in this section pertain to restarting monitors created on systems using the legacy Top
Talkers feature and not those created with Flow Vision.

For systems using Fabric OS version 7.2 or later, when you select a device or device port, and then
select Monitor > Performance > Top Talkers, a message displays that you can use Flow Vision to
provide Top Talkers monitoring. You have these options:

To use Flow Vision, delete existing monitors, then use the Add Flow Definition dialog box to
define an initiator and target port pair for monitoring. Refer to

Chapter 44, “Flow Vision”

for

more information.

Clicking OK opens the legacy Top Talkers dialog box. To use the legacy Top Talkers feature, you
must deactivate existing flows defined for the switch for Flow Vision.

To restart a top talker monitor, perform the following steps:

1. Select the dialog box of the Top Talker monitor you want to restart.

Refer to steps 1-5 under

“Configuring a fabric mode Top Talker monitor”

on page 1483 or

“Configuring an F_Port mode Top Talker monitor”

on page 1485 to display this dialog box.

2. Click Continue.

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