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About This Document
● Supported hardware and software.................................................................................. 11
● What's new in this document...........................................................................................12
In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some switches
but not to others, this list identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are not.
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by Brocade
Communications Systems, Inc. for Fabric OS 7.3.0, documenting all possible configurations and
scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.
The following hardware platforms are supported by this release of Fabric OS:
● System event handling....................................................................................................30
● Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations......................................................... 31
● High Availability and Flow Vision.................................................................................... 32
● Flow Vision integration with MAPS ................................................................................ 32
Overview of Flow Vision
Flow Vision is a Fibre Channel SAN network diagnostic tool supported on all platforms supported by
Fabric OS 7.2.0 and later, that provides you with a comprehensive vision of and deep insight into fabric
traffic flows, along with the ability to non-disruptively create and capture copies of traffic flows for
analysis of traffic flows, bottlenecks, bandwidth utilization and similar fabric connectivity functionality.
Flow Vision also provides a test flow generation capability that you can use to pre-test a SAN
infrastructure for robustness. This test flow generation capability is also useful for testing the internal
connections on a switch before deploying the switch into a production environment. In addition, Flow
Vision allows you to test for fabric connectivity issues, such as slow drain, bandwidth utilization, and
similar issues.
Flow Vision features
Flow Vision has three features: Flow Monitor, Flow Generator, and Flow Mirror.
Flow Monitor
Flow Monitor provides flow monitoring and the gathering of frame statistics for fabric application flows,
including the ability to learn (discover) flows automatically that are flowing through a specified port.
Refer to Flow Monitor on page 33 for a complete description and sample use cases.
Flow Generator
Flow Generator simulates and generates test-load traffic in specific flows; this allows you to validate
hardware components, connectivity, and verify performance. Refer to Flow Generator on page 59 for
a complete description and sample use cases.
Flow Mirror
Flow Mirror provides the ability to non-disruptively create copies of application flow frames that can be
captured for deeper analysis of their contents. Refer to Flow Mirror on page 75 for a a complete
description and sample use cases.
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Flow Vision limitations and considerations
Flow Vision limitations and considerations
Beyond the individual feature-specific restrictions, the following restrictions and limitations apply to
Flow Vision as a whole:
• You cannot run Flow Vision and either Advanced Performance Monitor (APM) or Port Mirroring at
the same time on a chassis (even across logical switches), as Flow Vision and Port Mirror
connections are mutually exclusive. This means that legacy Port Mirroring-related operations are
not allowed if any Flow Vision flow (active or defined) is present on a switch, and no Flow Vision
flows can be created or run if legacy Port Mirroring is enabled.
• Port swap functionality is not supported.
Roles and access in Flow Vision
Flow Vision can be accessed by users with the following roles: Admin, Switch Admin, or Fabric Admin.
Flow Vision flows
A flow is a set of Fibre Channel (FC) frames or packets that share similar traits, such as an ingress
port or egress port identifier or any other data that can be used to differentiate one set of related
frames or packets from a different set.
These parameters are specified as part of the flow command, and include:
• Port parameters: (Also called the “Point of Interest”, or where the data you want to examine is
from.) This consists of an ingress port (ingrport) or an egress port (egrport). Only one can be
specified when defining a flow.
• Frame parameters: These are the following parameters: Source Device Identification (SID or
WWN), Destination Device Identification (DID or WWN), LUN, or frame type. At least one frame
parameter must be present to define a flow. Refer to Flow frametype parameters on page 19 for
details on frame types.
• Direction: A direction is implicitly defined from an ingress port to an egress port, or a source device
(srcdev) to a destination device (dstdev). For example, srcdev=x, dstdev=y indicates traffic flowing
from x to y. The -bidir option causes the flow definition to be monitored in both directions. This
makes the following true:
‐Entering srcdev=x dstdev=y specifies that only traffic flowing from x to y is the desired
‐Entering srcdev=x dstdev=y -bidir specifies that traffic traveling from x to y and traffic
The following figure illustrates how the frame and port parameters apply to a flow.
flow.
traveling from y to x are both desired flows.
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FIGURE 1 Frame and port parameters
Flow definitions
Flow definitions
To define a flow and configure Flow Vision to monitor that flow, you must provide a unique flow name
and specify the flow parameters. These parameters identify the sets of related frames that compose the
flow; these can either be explicitly defined or Flow Vision can learn them through observation.
NOTE
These flow definitions are stored on the switch on which the flow is created, and are not distributed
across the fabric. This means that each switch (logical or physical) knows only its own unique flows and
does not know what flows exist on other switches.
When creating or viewing a flow, you can specify any combination of the three features (monitor, mirror,
generator) in the flow command.
Flow definition parameters and rules
The rules listed in the following table identify the parameters that can be used to define a flow.
Flow definition rulesTABLE 3
ParametersField namesRules
Portingrport
egrport
• One field only must be specified
• Values must be explicit
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ParametersField namesRules
Flow definition rules (Continued)TABLE 3
Framesrcdev
dstdev
lun
frametype
NOTE
Refer to Table 5 on page 19 for more information
on frame types.
• At least one field must be specified.
• Values for srcdev and dstdev can be
explicit or "*" ("*" indicates learned
flows).
• Values for lun and frametype must be
explicit.
• On XISL monitors, the SFID and DFID
values are mandatory but srcdev &
dstdev are not.
Notes
• On 8 Gbps-capable Fibre Channel platforms, possible frame monitoring flow classifiers include:
egrport, ingrport, srcdev, dstdev, and lun.
• On Gen 5 Fibre Channel platforms and the Brocade FC8-32E and FC8-48E blades, possible frame
monitoring flow classifiers include: ingrport, egrport, dstdev, srcdev, and lun.
Duplicate flow definition support
Flow Vision allows duplicate flow definitions to be created as long as the flows are not active.
Duplicate flow definitions are detected during flow activation. If a flow is a duplicate of an active flow,
the duplicate will not be activated.
Any flow that is considered to be a duplicate will remain deactivated as long as there is an existing
matching flow definition active irrespective of the defined application. A warning message is displayed
when you try to create (which implicitly activates) or activate a flow if there is an existing matching flow
definition active. You must manually deactivate the active flow to activate the new flow definition.
A flow definition must be active to be considered a duplicate. For example, the following user-defined
flow definitions are considered to be duplicates, as the "*" value for dstdev in the second example
would include the 0xa20c81 value specified in the first.
Predefined flows are considered when checking for duplicate flows. When a predefined flow is active
for any feature, all user-defined flows for that feature are considered to be duplicate flows, but userdefined flows for different features are not considered to be duplicate flows. Duplicate predefined flow
definitions can be active for different applications. Duplicate predefined flow definitions cannot be
active simultaneously for the same application.
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Supported port configurations for each application
Supported port configurations for each application
The following table lists the supported configurations for each Flow Vision feature that can be made
using only the basic flow identification parameters (ingrport and srcdev, egrport and dstdev).
Port configurations supported in Flow Vision TABLE 4
Switch Configuration Mode
Access GatewayVirtual Fabric
Not SupportedSupported
Supported
(F_Ports only)
Supported
Feature
Flow
Generator
Flow
Mirror
Flow
Monitor
Platforms
16 Gbps-capable Fibre Channel
(Gen 5)
Supported (SIM ports only)Supported (Destination
Supported (F_Ports and F_Port
trunks)
Supported (E_Ports, EX_Ports,
F_Ports, SIM ports, and
XISL_Ports)
8 Gbps-capable Fibre
Channel
SIM ports only)
Not SupportedNot SupportedSupported
Supported (E_Ports,
EX_Ports, F_Ports, and
XISL_Ports)
Notes on supported configurations
• Neither ranges nor lists are supported for any parameter.
• If you are using at least one advanced parameter (lun, frametype, or bidir), then feature-specific rules
apply. Refer to the individual Flow Vision features for specific details.
• Support for Gen 5 F_Ports and F_Port trunks is provided on the following devices:
‐Switches: Brocade 6505, 6510, 6520, DCX 8510-4 and DCX 8510-8
‐Blades: CR16-4, CR16-8, FC8-32E, FC8-48E, FC16-32, FC16-48, and FC16-64
‐Disabling a SIM port that is receiving traffic may produce class 3 discards for the simulated
traffic; however, this will have no effect on other traffic flows.
Flow frametype parameters
Frame monitoring can be done for a variety of frames using predefined frametype parameters.
The following table lists these parameters and the type of frames counted for each.
Supported frametype parametersTABLE 5
Frametype
parameter
abtsAbort Sequence
baaccAll frames accepted
barjtAll frames rejected
scsiAll SCSI frames (including both command and data frames)
On chassis-based platforms, Flow Vision supports a maximum of 512 user-defined flows plus an
additional 512 learned flows and predefined flows. On fixed-port platforms, Flow Vision supports a
maximum of 128 user-defined flows plus an additional 128 learned flows and predefined flows.
However, there is a combined limit for all features of 64 static flows and learning flows (whether active
or inactive) for any one port, and a maximum of 64 learned flows per feature per port. This means (as
an example) that two different learning flows on a given port can each have 64 learned flows.
Beyond these limits, there are limits for each individual feature, as described in the following table. In
addition, refer to the individual features for other feature-specific restrictions.
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Flow learning
NOTE
A verification is done for each flow when it is created or activated to ensure that there is no identical
flow active. Duplicate flows will not be created or activated when there is a identical flow already active.
To create a new flow that duplicates an active flow, you must use the -noactivate keyword as part of
the flow--create command. Refer to the “Creating an inactive flow” section of each feature for
instructions on creating an inactive flow for that feature.
Feature-specific flow count restrictions in Flow VisionTABLE 6
FeatureLimit to number of flows
Flow MonitorUp to 64 active flows per port, including static flows, learning flows, and learned flows.
Flow GeneratorUp to 39 active flows per port for ingress ports and 64 active flows per port for egress
Flow MirrorOne active flow per port.
ports.
Flow learning
Flow Vision can create a learned flow by using an asterisk (*) for the source device, the destination
device, or both devices. This allows you to discover what flows are active on a port without having to
explicitly identify all the devices.
The following items should be kept in mind when constructing learning flows:
• Learning is enabled on a port if the flow definition has an asterisk as the value for any of the flow
parameters. The learning flow is expanded to learned flows based on the parameters indicated by
the asterisk. Cumulative data is presented for parameters for which learning is not requested.
• When you enter an asterisk as part of the command to indicate a learned flow, you must enclose it in
double quotes, like this: ("*").
• Learning source device (srcdev) or destination device (dstdev) values are only supported on Gen 5
Fibre Channel ports.
• Each Flow Vision feature uses learning as follows:
‐Flow Monitor can learn all the source device and destination device pairs passing through
the ingress or egress port defined in a flow. Learning is not supported for Flow Monitor flows
defined using the lun, frametype, or bidir parameters. Refer to Learning in Flow Monitor
flows on page 37 for additional information.
‐Flow Generator can generate traffic to or from every source or destination device that
shares the zone with the ingress or egress port defined in a flow. Refer to Learning in Flow
Generator flows on page 65 for additional information.
‐Flow Mirror can capture all the source device and destination device pairs passing through
the ingress or egress port defined in a flow. Learning is supported for Flow Mirror flows
defined using the lun, frametype, or bidir parameters. Refer to Learning in Flow Mirror flows
on page 83 for additional information.
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Viewing flows
Viewing flows
Flow Vision allows you to view the configuration parameters for each flow on a switch.
• To display all Flow Vision flows, enter flow--show.
• To display all flows for a specific feature, enter flow--show-featurefeature_name.
• To display the definition for a specific flow, enter flow--showflow_name-featurefeature_name.
When you enter flow--show with a flow name, only the flow definition for the specified flow is
displayed. If the feature is also specified, feature-specific data is displayed for the specified flow
name. For root and static flows, this command shows the Source ID-Destination ID pairs and the
cumulative frame count for the ingress or egress port specified in the flow definition.
The following example displays all the existing flows on the switch.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + Denotes feature is currently activated for the flow
The flow name with prefix sys_ denotes a predefined flow
Refer to the individual features to see feature-specific output.
Repeating flow output
You can configure the Flow Vision features to repeat their flow output. The purpose of repeating a flow
is so that you can view sample frames or output over time to look for differences. This allows you to
continuously monitor a changing situation.
To specify the number of times the flow output should be repeated, complete the following steps.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Use the flow--showflow_name-featurefeature_name-countnum command. The num value can
range from 1 through 10. The default value is 1.
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Repeating a Flow Monitor flow
The following example creates a Flow Monitor flow named “ag159_flow_2”, and
then repeats the output two times:
----------------------Number of frames generated from IngrPort : 2.57G
=======================================================================================================
=======================================================================================================
Name : simflow_1 Features: gen(Activated),mon(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(12/16),SrcDev(0x07f000),DstDev(0x371400)
Flow Generator (Activated):
----------------------| SrcDev | DstDev |
----------------------| 0x07f000 | 0x371400 |
----------------------Number of frames generated from IngrPort : 2.57G
=======================================================================================================
=======================================================================================================
Name : simflow_1 Features: gen(Activated),mon(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(12/16),SrcDev(0x07f000),DstDev(0x371400)
Flow Generator (Activated):
----------------------| SrcDev | DstDev |
----------------------| 0x07f000 | 0x371400 |
----------------------Number of frames generated from IngrPort : 2.58G
=======================================================================================================
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Repeating a Flow Mirror flow
The following example creates a bidirectional Flow Mirror flow named
“fmcount_cfm” that is mirrored to the CPU, and repeats the output three times:
switch:admin> flow --show fmcount_cfm -fea mir -count 3
=======================================================================================================
Name : fmcount_cfm Features: mir(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(14),SrcDev(0x010e00),DstDev(0x010f00),BiDir
Flow Mirror (Activated):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| OXID | RXID | SOF | EOF | Frame_type | LUN(*) | Dir | Time-Stamp |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 0001 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Rx | Jun 05 07:54:27:100 |
| 0044 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Tx | Jun 05 07:54:27:100 |
(output truncated)
| 0001 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Rx | Jun 05 07:54:31:109 |
| 0044 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Tx | Jun 05 07:54:31:109 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of Mirrored Frames : 1280, No of RX Mirrored Frames : 640, No of TX Mirrored Frames : 640
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------=======================================================================================================
=======================================================================================================
Name : fmcount_cfm Features: mir(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(14),SrcDev(0x010e00),DstDev(0x010f00),BiDir
Flow Mirror (Activated):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| OXID | RXID | SOF | EOF | Frame_type | LUN(*) | Dir | Time-Stamp |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 0001 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Rx | Jun 05 07:54:34:100 |
| 0044 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Tx | Jun 05 07:54:34:100 |
(output truncated)
| 0001 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Rx | Jun 05 07:54:38:109 |
| 0044 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Tx | Jun 05 07:54:38:109 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of Mirrored Frames : 1280, No of RX Mirrored Frames : 640, No of TX Mirrored Frames : 640
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------=======================================================================================================
=======================================================================================================
Name : fmcount_cfm Features: mir(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(14),SrcDev(0x010e00),DstDev(0x010f00),BiDir
Flow Mirror (Activated):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| OXID | RXID | SOF | EOF | Frame_type | LUN(*) | Dir | Time-Stamp |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 0001 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Rx | Jun 05 07:54:40:100 |
| 0044 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Tx | Jun 05 07:54:40:100 |
(output truncated)
| 0001 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Rx | Jun 05 07:54:44:109 |
| 0044 | ffff | SOFn3 | EOFn | Data | ---- | Tx | Jun 05 07:54:44:109 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of Mirrored Frames : 1280, No of RX Mirrored Frames : 640, No of TX Mirrored Frames : 640
switch:admin> flow --show fmcount_lfm -feature mirror -count 5
=======================================================================================================
Name : fmcount_lfm Features: mir(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(14),SrcDev(0x010e00),DstDev(0x010f00),MirPort(16)
Flow Mirror (Activated):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of Mirrored Frames : 1032316, No of RX Mirrored Frames : 1032316, No of TX Mirrored Frames : 0
=======================================================================================================
Name : fmcount_lfm Features: mir(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(14),SrcDev(0x010e00),DstDev(0x010f00),MirPort(16)
Flow Mirror (Activated):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of Mirrored Frames : 1267119, No of RX Mirrored Frames : 1267119, No of TX Mirrored Frames : 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------=======================================================================================================
=======================================================================================================
Name : fmcount_lfm Features: mir(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(14),SrcDev(0x010e00),DstDev(0x010f00),MirPort(16)
Flow Mirror (Activated):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of Mirrored Frames : 1501921, No of RX Mirrored Frames : 1501921, No of TX Mirrored Frames : 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------=======================================================================================================
=======================================================================================================
Name : fmcount_lfm Features: mir(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(14),SrcDev(0x010e00),DstDev(0x010f00),MirPort(16)
Flow Mirror (Activated):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of Mirrored Frames : 1736723, No of RX Mirrored Frames : 1736723, No of TX Mirrored Frames : 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------=======================================================================================================
=======================================================================================================
Name : fmcount_lfm Features: mir(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: IngrPort(14),SrcDev(0x010e00),DstDev(0x010f00),MirPort(16)
Flow Mirror (Activated):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of Mirrored Frames : 1971525, No of RX Mirrored Frames : 1971525, No of TX Mirrored Frames : 0
In Flow Vision, frames can be sorted whether or not sub-flows are present. Sorting the output allows
you to highlight a selected aspect of the flow data.
To sort the flow output, complete the following steps.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Use the flow--showflow_name-featurefeature_name-sortbycolumncolumn_num command.
The columncolumn_num value is the number of the output column on which the data is to be
sorted. There is no space between “column” and the column number.
NOTE
The -sortby parameter can only be applied when there is only one feature (monitor, mirror, or
generator) specified in the flow--showflow_name command.
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Sorting a Flow Monitor flow
Flow Monitor flows only would nee d sorting if they are a learned flow, as sorting
with the dstdev and srcdev explicitly defined would not make sense because
there would be only one line of data in the output. The table headings have been
edited so that they will display more clearly in this document.
The following example creates the Flow Monitor flow “neutrons”, and then shows
the output sorted by column 4, the Destination ID.
--------------------------------------------------------=======================================================================================================
Name : neutrons Features: mon(Activated) noConfig: Off
Definition: EgrPort(1212),SrcDev(*),DstDev(*),SFID(*),DFID(*)