Cisco MDS 9000 Installation And Configuration Note page 22

Setting Up the Cisco Protocol Analyzer
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m .
c.
d.
e.
f.
Step 3 Create the flows you want Performance Manager to monitor using the Flow Configuration Wizard.
Define the data collection you want Performance Manager to gather using the Performance Manager
Step 4
Configuration Wizard.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Data is not collected for JBODs or for virtual ports. If you change the data collection configuration
Note
parameters during a data collection, you must stop and restart the collection process for your changes to
take effect.
Click Cisco Traffic Analyzer at the top of the Host or Storage detail pages to view Cisco Traffic
Step 5
Analyzer information, or choose Performance > Traffic Analyzer > Open. Cisco Traffic Analyzer will
not open unless nTop has been started already.
Setting Up the Cisco Protocol Analyzer
The Cisco Protocol Analyzer enables Fibre Channel traffic to be analyzed at the frame level in real-time
or from captured SPAN traffic through a graphical user interface. Traffic encapsulated by an adapter can
be analyzed by Ethereal, a public domain software enhanced by Cisco for Fibre Channel and SCSI
protocol decoding.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Port Analyzer Adapter Installation and Configuration Note
22
http://ip_address:port_number
where ip_address is the address of the management workstation on which you have installed the
Cisco Traffic Analyzer, and :port_number is the port that is used by Cisco Traffic Analyzer (the
default is :3000).
Click OK.
Choose Performance > Traffic Analyzer > Start.
Enter the location of Cisco Traffic Analyzer, in the format
D:directory\ntop.bat
where D: is the drive letter for the disk drive where Cisco Traffic Analyzer is installed, and
directory is the directory containing the ntop.bat file.
Click OK.
Choose the VSAN you want to collect information for or choose All VSANs.
Check the types of items you want to collect information for (hosts, ISLs, storage devices, and
flows).
Enter the URL for Cisco Traffic Analyzer in the format
http://ip address/directory
where ip address is the address of the management workstation on which you have installed Cisco
Traffic Analyzer, and directory is the path to the directory where Cisco Traffic Analyzer is installed.
Click Next.
Review the end devices and links that you selected to make sure this is the data you want to collect.
Click Finish to begin collecting data.
OL-9077-01