Stopping Switch Monitoring
By default, monitoring is enabled for discovered switches. You should stop monitoring a switch if you want to replace the switch or bring down the monitored port count to within the licensing limit.
Before you can stop monitoring a switch, you must have the following:
• SAN-Discover Setup privilege with read/write permission
When you stop monitoring a switch, the following occurs:
• Data collection on the switch stops.
• You no longer receive SNMP traps and Syslog messages.
• You can no longer perform feature-specific operations, such as downloading firmware.
• Any scheduled operations on the switch are stopped.
• The switch is not displayed anywhere in SANnav, except in the Discovery view.
Note: You cannot stop monitoring the seed switch.
When you stop monitoring a switch, you do not lose historical data, such as port statistics. So, for example, if you wanted to delete a switch from SANnav, you could stop monitoring the switch, back up necessary data, and then delete the switch.
To stop monitoring a switch, perform the following steps:
1. Click the Settings icon, and then select > .
The Discovered Fabrics page displays all fabrics that have been discovered.
2. Click the fabric name to open the fabric drill-down page, which displays the list of switches in the fabric.
3. Select the switches that you want to stop monitoring, and click Stop Monitoring.
The status column now shows "Unmonitored" for the switch.
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