Fabric Manager Users Guide, Version 6.1, Revision A - QLogic

1–Overview of the QLogic Fabric Manager Suite
Component Overview
• Application Service information
• vFabric TM Information
Performance Manager
The Performance Manager component communicates with nodes to collect
performance and error statistics. The PM communicates with the Performance
Management Agent (PMA) on each node in the fabric, using the PM packets.
Examples of the type of statistics collected by the PM include:
• Link Utilization Bandwidth
• Link Packet Rates
• Link Congestion
• Number of Adaptive Routing changes to routing tables
• Error statistics, such as symbol errors or packet discards
The PM collects data on a per-port basis.
Baseboard Manager
Fabric Executive
The Baseboard Manager component communicates with nodes to provide an
in-band mechanism for managing chassis. The BM communicates with the
Baseboard Management Agent (BMA) on each node of the fabric, using the BM
packets.
Examples of the type of hardware management that can be performed by the BM
include:
• Retrieval of vital product data (VPD) (For example, serial number,
manufacturing information)
• Retrieval of environmental data such as temperature and voltage sensor
readings
• Adjustment of power and cooling resources (For example, fan speed
adjustments)
The Fabric Executive component provides for out-of-band access to the QLogic
Fabric Manager suite. It permits the QLogic Fabric Viewer (FV) utility to
communicate over TCP/IP and access the rest of the QLogic Fabric Manager
suite.
The FE exposes a private TCP/IP socket, on which it listens for connect requests
from the FV applications. The FV communicates with the FE using the TCP/IP
protocol to retrieve fabric information for presentation to the FV user.
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