SMA guidelines and limitations
Guidelines
Follw these guidelines for SMA feature.
- SMA is enabled by default. You cannot disable SMA.
- SMA supports a maximum of 5 policies (1 default and 4 user-defined).
- SMA processes is supported on both Core and NPV switches.
Limitations and restrictions
Following are the limitations and restrictions for the SMA feature.
- 1MB of memory for storing the history which accumulate up to 13K entries
- Only port counters and protocol counters are monitored for unexpected patterns.
- Tx-OverUtilization counters is not supported for MDS 24/10 port SAN Extension Module in MDS 9700 series.
- FPIN and DIRL port guard action is not supported in NPV
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Following PMON counters are not supported.
- ASIC Error Pkt from Port
- SIC Error Pkt to xbar
- ASIC Error Pkt from xbar
- The PMON counter TX-Slowport-Oper-Delay is monitorred with threshold type Absoulte but in SMA the counter threshold type is Delta