SAN monitoring

Monitored devices

  • Broadcom (Brocade) and all its re-brands
  • Broadcom (Brocade) SANnav v2
  • Cisco MDS
  • Cisco Nexus
  • QLogic

Used data sources (APIs)

  • Broadcom (Brocade): REST API
  • Broadcom (Brocade), Cisco: SNMP
  • Broadcom (Brocade) SANnav v2

Monitored metrics

  • Data throughput [MB/sec, Mbit/sec]
  • Frame throughput [frames/sec]
  • Errors: CRC, encoding, enc out, disc c3 frames, link fail, loss sync, PCS [frames/sec]
  • CPU, Memory usage
  • Buffer credits usage
  • SFP Power

Aggregated graphs per

  • Port
  • Switch
  • Fabric
  • All switches total
  • ISL (Inter Switch Link)

Additional features

  • Brocade vFabric support
  • Cisco VSAN support
  • Graphical healthcheck (HW or logical issues on ports or switches)
  • Historical reporting
  • Alerting: performance metrics
  • Alerting: HW issues
  • Topology
  • CPU and memory
  • Zone configuration (only via SANnav, Brocade REST API)

Example

Switch summary
SAN monitoring switch

Total
SAN monitoring total

Topology
SAN monitoring topology