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
  • 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