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7.6 Monitoring performance of a SAN switch or director
All SAN switch and director vendors provide management software that includes performance
monitoring capabilities. The real-time SAN statistics, such as port utilization and throughput
information available from SAN management software, can be used to complement the
performance information provided by host servers or storage subsystems.
For additional information about monitoring performance through a SAN switch or director
point product, see these websites:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/networking/
http://www.brocade.com
http://www.cisco.com
Most SAN management software includes options to create SNMP alerts based on
performance criteria, and to ...