Configuring a monitor from a performance graph, Traffic flow dashboard monitors, Traffic flow monitor types – Brocade Network Advisor SAN + IP User Manual v12.3.0 User Manual

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Configuring a monitor from a performance graph

1. Configure the performance graph.

To configure a real-time performance graph, refer to

“Monitoring real-time performance”

on

page 1650. To configure a historical performance graph, refer to

“Performance Data”

on

page 1601.

2. Click Save As Widget to create a monitor of the graph data for the dashboard.

The Performance Dashboard Monitor Title dialog box displays. The Management application
generates a default name for the monitor using the following naming convention: Chart_Type -
MM DD, YYYY HH:MM
AM/PM. For example, Realtime Chart Monitor - Nov 2, 2012 11:02 AM.
For more information, refer to

“Viewing Historical Graphs/Tables”

on page 1675.

3. Enter a unique name for the monitor and click OK.

4. Click OK on the confirmation message.

Traffic flow dashboard monitors

NOTE

Traffic flow monitors are only supported on devices running Fabric OS 7.2 and later with the
Fabric Vision license.

You can use the dashboard to monitor traffic flows. To monitor a flow, you must first create and
activate the flow in Flow Vision (refer to //link to flow vision//.

Traffic flow monitor types

You can create the following types of monitors for traffic flows:

Top N — Displays the top number of traffic flows for the selected measure in a table.

Bottom N — Displays the bottom number of traffic flows for the selected measure in a table.

Time Series — Displays the selected measures for a range of time and specified targets for
traffic flows in a chart.

Performance graph — Displays the configured performance graph on the dashboard.

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