Step 5
Click OK.
What to Do Next
• Add traffic sources to the traffic monitoring session.
• Activate the traffic monitoring session.
Creating a Fibre Channel Traffic Monitoring Session
Procedure
Step 1
In the Navigation pane, click the SAN tab.
Step 2
On the LAN tab, expand SAN > Traffic Monitoring Sessions > Fabric_Interconnect_Name.
Step 3
Right-click Fabric_Interconnect_Name and choose Create Traffic Monitoring Session.
Step 4
In the Create Traffic Monitoring Session dialog box, complete the following fields:
DescriptionName
The name of the traffic monitoring session.
This name can be between 1 and 16 alphanumeric characters. You
cannot use spaces or any special characters other than - (hyphen), _
(underscore), : (colon), and . (period), and you cannot change this name
after the object has been saved.
Name field
Whether traffic will be monitored for the physical port selected in the
Destination field. This can be one of the following:
• Enabled—Cisco UCS begins monitoring the port activity as soon
as some source components are added to the session.
• Disabled—Cisco UCS does not monitor the port activity.
Admin State field
Select the physical port whose communication traffic you want to
monitor from the navigation tree.
Destination drop-down list
The data transfer rate of the port channel to be monitored. This can be
one of the following:
• 1 Gbps
• 2 Gbps
• 4 Gbps
• 8 Gbps
• Auto—Cisco UCS determines the data transfer rate.
Admin Speed drop-down list
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