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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Port Analyzer Adapter Installation and Configuration Note
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Using Cisco Traffic Analyzer with Fabric Manager Web Services
Note See the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide for information about launching
the Cisco Traffic Analyzer from the Performance Manager details charts. Performance Manager is a part
of the Fabric Manager and is a licensed feature in Cisco SAN-OS Release 1.3(2a) or later.
Caution If data truncate is enabled, the Cisco Traffic Analyzer’s Fibre Channel throughput values are not accurate
when used with DS-PAA. The PAA version is required to achieve accurate results with truncate because
it adds a count that enables the Cisco Traffic Analyzer to determine how many data bytes were actually
transferred.
Tip You can use SPAN to monitor traffic on an interface without any traffic disruption. This feature is useful
in troubleshooting scenarios when traffic disruption changes the problem environment and makes it
difficult to reproduce the problem. See either the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager
Configuration Guide or the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide.
Caution The Cisco Traffic Analyzer must not be used with the PAA in MNM mode.
Using Cisco Traffic Analyzer with Fabric Manager Web
Services
You can run Cisco Traffic Analyzer from within Fabric Manager Web Services in Fabric Manager
Release 2.1(2) or later.
Note As of Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2) and later, you can no longer access Cisco Traffic Analyzer from
Fabric Manager Client. However, you can still run Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web
Services. For more information on releases prior to Fabric Manager Release 2.1(2), see the “Configuring
Cisco Traffic Analyzer for Fabric Manager Releases Prior to 2.1(2)” section on page 21.
This section includes the following topics:
• Installing Cisco Traffic Analyzer.
• Launching Cisco Traffic Analyzer.
• Discovering Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services.
• Accessing Cisco Traffic Analyzer from Fabric Manager Web Services.
• Configuring Cisco Traffic Analyzer for Fabric Manager Releases Prior to 2.1(2).