Does MDS switches support Netflow?

[User_4444_2]

We want to gather stats for our FCIP ports between sites via Netflow (nGenius Performance Manager) product. Does MDS switches support it? If not what can we use to get the stats?

Cheers

[bfeeny · Accepted solution]

Netflow is not supported.  However you can use Performance Monitor which is part of the Fabric Manager Server package (licensed) or you can use a SPAN session to a PAA and capture traffic with NTOP. 

Brian

[User_4444_2]

Thanks

Can I gather historical data and graph it via Performance Monitor?

[dynamoxxx]

you sure can. You can look at 24 hours, week, month, year or custom. What i really like about Cisco Peformance manager is that you can create flows, where you can track performance just between two devices. For example i have a flow where i monitor traffic between two EMC DMX storage arrays that are replicating to each other.