Data for switches in capacity and relationship reports
You can include properties and other information about switches in capacity and relationship reports.
Information about switches
You can create capacity and relationship reports that include the following information:
- Switch Name
- The logical name of the switch where a Fibre Channel port is located, or the name that was defined when the switch was added for monitoring. If neither name is available, IBM Spectrum Control uses the WWN of the switch.
Component properties
You can create capacity and relationship reports that include the following information:
- Switch WWN
- The World Wide Name (WWN) of the switch. A WWN is the unique 64-bit identifier for the switch.
- Parent Switch Name
- The name of the parent switch of a logical switch. If a user-defined name is not set for the parent switch, the WWN is shown. If the switch is not a logical switch, no value is displayed.
- Parent Switch WWN
- The worldwide name of the parent switch.
- Switch Management Telnet Address
- The Telnet address that you access to manage the switch.
- Switch Management SNMP Address
- The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) address that you access to manage the switch.
- Switch Management URL Address
- The URL that you access to manage the switch.
- Switch Domain
- The domain ID of a switch. The ID is an 8-bit identifier with a range of 0-255. This column is blank for physical switches that are parents of virtual switches.
- Switch Firmware Version
- The firmware version of the microcode on a switch.
- Switch Location
- The physical location of the switch. The location is defined when a switch is added to IBM Spectrum Control. You can add or edit the location of the switch on the General tab of the properties notebook.
- Switch Custom Tag 1, 2, and 3
- User-defined text that is associated with the switch. You can add or edit the custom tags for the switch on the General tab of the properties notebook.
- Switch Data Source Count
- The number of data sources that are managing a switch. A switch can be managed by multiple data sources, and a single data source can manage multiple switches. Data sources might include CIM agents, SNMP agents, or Storage Resource agents. IBM Spectrum Control communicates with a data source to collect information about a switch.
- Switch Is Virtual
- Shows whether a switch is a logical switch. If this value is
Yes, the switch is a logical switch. - Switch Ports
- The total number of ports on the switch that are not online, and ports that are online and connected to other ports.
- Switch Connected Ports
- The number of ports that are connected to a storage resource, where the storage resource can be a storage system, server, or hypervisor. This value is only available when a switch is viewed as a related resource of a storage system, server, or hypervisor.
Status information
You can create capacity and relationship reports that include the following information:
- Switch Status
- The condition of the resource, for example normal, warning, or error.
- Switch Is Detected
- Shows whether the resource
was detected the last time that data was collected. If this value
is
Yes, the resource was detected. - Switch Last Data Collection
- The date and time when storage statistics were last collected from the resource.
- Switch Last Data Collection Status
- The condition of the last data collection. The status can show if the collection was a success, a failure, or if data was collected from the resource.
Vendor, model, and device information
You can create capacity and relationship reports that include the following information:
- Switch IP Address
- The IP address of the resource.
- Switch Serial Number
- The serial number of the resource.
- Switch Vendor
- The vendor who supplied the resource.
- Switch Model
- The model name or model number of the resource.