Brocade Flow Vision Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface.....................................................................................................................................7
Document conventions......................................................................................7
Text formatting conventions.................................................................. 7
Command syntax conventions.............................................................. 7
Notes, cautions, and warnings.............................................................. 8
Brocade resources............................................................................................ 9
Contacting Brocade Technical Support.............................................................9
Document feedback........................................................................................ 10
About This Document.............................................................................................................. 11
Supported hardware and software.................................................................. 11
What's new in this document...........................................................................12
Brocade Flow Vision terminology....................................................................13
Flow Vision .............................................................................................................................15
Overview of Flow Vision..................................................................................15
Flow Vision features............................................................................15
Flow Vision limitations and considerations..........................................16
Roles and access in Flow Vision ....................................................................16
Flow Vision flows.............................................................................................16
Flow definitions................................................................................... 17
Supported port configurations for each application.............................19
Flow frametype parameters................................................................ 19
Numbers of flows supported............................................................... 20
Flow learning ......................................................................................21
Viewing flows ..................................................................................... 22
Flow deletion....................................................................................... 28
Resetting flow statistics.......................................................................29
Flow Vision licensing.......................................................................................30
Flow Vision configuration setup...................................................................... 30
System event handling....................................................................................30
Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations......................................... 31
High Availability and Flow Vision.................................................................... 32
Flow Vision integration with MAPS ................................................................ 32
Flow Monitor...........................................................................................................................33
Overview of Flow Monitor ...............................................................................33
Replicating APM monitors using Flow Monitor....................................34
Creating Flow Monitor flows............................................................................34
Parameter usage exceptions ............................................................. 35
Creating an inactive flow in Flow Monitor............................................35
Activating Flow Monitor flows..........................................................................36
Automatic activation of a Flow Monitor flow........................................ 36
Deactivating Flow Monitor flows......................................................................36
Automatic deactivation of a Flow Monitor flow.................................... 36
Viewing Flow Monitor flows.............................................................................37
Learning in Flow Monitor flows........................................................................37
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