Monitoring..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................95
Discovery....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................95
Considerations for Monitoring Fabric OS 8.2.1 Switches............................................................................................................................................95
Seed Switch......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................95
Discovery Prerequisites...............................................................................................................................................................................................................96
Discovering a Fabric..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 96
Stopping Switch Monitoring......................................................................................................................................................................................................99
Stopping Fabric Monitoring....................................................................................................................................................................................................101
Resuming Switch Monitoring.................................................................................................................................................................................................102
Resuming Fabric Monitoring................................................................................................................................................................................................. 102
Rediscovering a Switch............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 103
Rediscovering a Fabric............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 104
Changing the Seed Switch......................................................................................................................................................................................................105
Deleting a Fabric......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 106
Conguring Fabric Tracking................................................................................................................................................................................................... 107
Updating Fabric Members......................................................................................................................................................................................................108
Dashboards............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 110
Changing the Favorite Dashboard.......................................................................................................................................................................................111
Creating Custom Content for a Dashboard View..........................................................................................................................................................112
Setting Network Scope and Date Range.......................................................................................................................................................................... 119
Viewing Existing Dashboards................................................................................................................................................................................................ 122
Sharing the Dashboard with Other Users.........................................................................................................................................................................124
Health Summary Dashboard.................................................................................................................................................................................................125
Network Port Trac Conditions Dashboard....................................................................................................................................................................133
Reports.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................139
Conguring Report Content................................................................................................................................................................................................... 141
Editing Report Content.............................................................................................................................................................................................................158
Scheduling a Report..................................................................................................................................................................................................................162
Viewing, Exporting, and Deleting On-demand Reports.............................................................................................................................................167
Widgets for Dashboards and Reports.........................................................................................................................................................................................168
Performance Widgets...............................................................................................................................................................................................................172
Status Widgets - Dashboard..................................................................................................................................................................................................174
Status Widgets - Reports........................................................................................................................................................................................................175
Performance Monitoring...................................................................................................................................................................................................................175
Enabling Historical Data Collection.....................................................................................................................................................................................176
Launching Investigate Mode..................................................................................................................................................................................................178
Using Investigation Mode........................................................................................................................................................................................................183
Scheduling High Granularity Data Collection..................................................................................................................................................................188
Inventory Management......................................................................................................................................................................................................................195
Adding Custom Fields to a Managed Object................................................................................................................................................................. 196
Identifying Switches to Plan for an Upgrade...................................................................................................................................................................200
Putting a Switch in Maintenance Mode............................................................................................................................................................................. 203
Disabling and Enabling a Switch.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 204
Disabling and Enabling a Switch Port................................................................................................................................................................................ 205
Decommissioning Ports..........................................................................................................................................................................................................206
Renaming Switch Ports, Switches, and Fabrics.............................................................................................................................................................207
Creating Host and Storage Enclosures............................................................................................................................................................................. 210
Mapping Host and Storage Ports........................................................................................................................................................................................211
Converting Initiator and Target Device Types................................................................................................................................................................. 214
Launching Web Tools............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 216
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