Choose Monitor > Switch > CPU.

You can use the drop-down to filter the view by Last 10 Minutes, Last Hour, Last Day, Last Week, Last Month, and Last Year.

In the Switch column, click the switch name to view the Switch Dashboard.

Click the chart icon in the Switch column to view the CPU utilization.

Choose Monitor > Switch > Memory.

Use the drop-down to filter the view by Last 10 Minutes, Last Hour, Last Day, Last Week, Last Month, and Last Year.

Click the chart icon in the Switch column to see a graph of the memory usage of the switch.

In the Switch column, click the switch name to view the Switch Dashboard.

You can use the drop-down to view the chart in different time lines. Use the chart icons to view the memory utilization chart in varied views.

Choose Monitor > Switch > Traffic.

Use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month, and Year.

Click the Export icon in the upper-right corner to export the data into a spreadsheet.

Click Save.

Click the switch name to view the Switch Dashboard section.

Choose Monitor > Switch > Temperature.

• Scope: The sensor belongs to a switch, which is part of a fabric. The fabric that it belongs to is shown as its scope. When the scope selector at the top of Cisco DCNM is used, the sensor list is filtered by that scope.
• Switch: Name of the switch the sensor belongs to.
• IP Address: IP Address of the switch.
• Temperature Module: The name of the sensor module.
• Avg/Range: The first number is the average temperature over the interval that is specified at the top of the table. The second set of numbers is the range of the temperature over that interval.
• Peak: The maximum temperature over the interval

From this list, each row has a chart icon, which you can click.

Choose Monitor > Switch > User Defined.

You can use the drop-down to filter the view by 24 hours, Week, Month, and Year.

Choose Monitor > Switch > Accounting.

Select Advanced Filter beside the filter icon to search the accounting information by Source, Username,Time, and Description. Or select Quick Filter to search under each column.

You can also select a row and click the Delete icon to delete accounting information from the list.

You can use the Print icon to print the accounting details and use the Export icon to export the data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Choose Monitor > Switch > Events.

Select an event in the table and click the Add Suppressor icon to open the shortcut of adding an event suppressor rule.

Select one or more events from the table and click the Acknowledge icon to acknowledge the event information for the fabric.

• After you acknowledge the event for a fabric, the acknowledge icon is displayed in the Ack column next to the fabric.

Select the fabric and click the Unacknowledge icon to cancel an acknowledgment for a fabric.

Select Advanced Filter beside the filter icon to search the accounting information by Source, Username,Time, and Description. Or select Quick Filter to search under each column.

Select a fabric and use the Delete icon to delete the fabric and event information from the list.

Click the Print icon to print the event details.

Click the Export to Excel icon to export the data.

Choose Monitor > LAN > Ethernet.

You can use the drop-down to filter the view by Last 10 Minutes, Last Hour, Last Day, Last Week, Last Month, and Last Year.

Choose Monitor > LAN > Link.

You can use the drop-down to filter the view by Last 10 Minutes, Last Hour, Last Day, Last Week, Last Month, and Last Year.

From the menu bar, select Monitor > Report > Generate.

In the configuration window, use the drop-down to define the scope for report generation.

In the pane on the left, expand the folders and select the report.

(Optional) In the pane on the right, you can edit the Report Name.

(Optional) Check the Export to Csv/Excel check box to export the report to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

In the Repeat radio buttons, if you select:

Click the Create button to generate a report that is based on the specifications.

Choose Monitor > Report > Jobs.

Select the checkbox for a specific report and click the Delete Job icon to delete a report.

Choose Monitor > Alarms > Alarm Policies.

Select the Enable Alarms check box to enable alarm policies.

From the Add drop-down list, choose any of the following:

• Device Health Policy: Select the devices for which you want to create policies. Specify the policy name, description, CPU Utilization parameters, Memory Utilization parameters, Environment Temperature parameters, device availability, and device features.
• Interface Health Policy: Select the devices for which you want to create policies. Specify the policy name, description, link-state, Bandwidth (In/Out), Inbound errors, Outbound errors, Inbound Discards, and Outbound Discards.
• Syslog Alarm Policy: Select the devices for which you want to create policies and then specify the following parameters.

  • Devices: Define the scope of this policy. Select individual devices or all devices to apply this policy.

  • Policy Name: Specify the name for this policy. It must be unique.

  • Description: Specify a brief description for this policy.

  • Severity: Define the severity level for this syslog alarm policy. Choices are: Critical, Major, Minor, and Warning.

  • Identifier: Specify the identifier portions of the raise & clear messages.

  • Raise Regex: Define the format of a syslog raise message.

  • Clear Regex: Define the format of a syslog clear message.

  Table 2. Example1

  Identifier	ID1-ID2
  Raise Regex	ETH_PORT_CHANNEL-5-PORT_DOWN: $(ID1): $(ID2) is down
  Clear Regex	ETH_PORT_CHANNEL-5-PORT_UP: $(ID1): $(ID2) is up

  Table 3. Example2

  Identifier	ID1-ID2
  Raise Regex	ETHPORT-5-IF_SFP_WARNING: Interface $(ID1), High Rx Power Warning
  Clear Regex	ETHPORT-5-IF_SFP_WARNING: Interface $(ID1), High Rx Power Warning cleared

Click OK to add the policy.

Choose Monitor > Alarms > View.

Choose any of the following tabs.

• Alarms: This tab displays the alarms that are generated for various categories. This tab displays information such as ID (optional), Severity, Failure Source, Name, Category, Acknowledged, Creation Time, Last Updated (optional), Policy, and Message. You can specify the Refresh Interval in this tab. You can select one or more alarms and then acknowledge or unacknowledge their status using the Change Status drop-down list. In addition, you can select one or more alarms and then click the Delete button to delete them.
• Cleared Alarms: This tab displays the cleared alarms. This tab displays information such as ID (optional), Severity, Failure Source, Name, Category, Acknowledged, Creation Time, Cleared At (optional), Cleared By, Policy, and Message. You can select one or more alarms and then click the Delete button to delete them.
• Events: This tab displays the events that are generated for the switches. This tab displays information such as Ack, Acknowledged user, Group, Switch, Severity, Facility, Type, Count, Last Seen, and Description. You can select one or more events and then acknowledge or unacknowledge their status using the Change Status drop-down list. In addition, you can select one or more alarms and then click the Delete button to delete them. If you want to delete all events, click the Delete All button.