Are you Storage Administrator? Are you dealing with lot of documentation related to SAN and report them? Then, Brocade SAN health Diagnostics tool is an ideal choice for you.
First of all, this tool is totally free(not sure brocade will make it chargeable in future)and easy to use. All you need is http://my.brocade.com/ login to download the report.
SAN Health Diagnostics Capture is a utility that perform SAN audits. Download it and run it on any Windows-based PC that has a TCP/IP connection to your SAN switches.This utility will automatically discover, analyze, and report the critical characteristics of your SAN, including switch, topology, and performance details. The results are presented in standard Excel and Visio formats.
This program will run against all Brocade B-Series and M-Series switches, Cisco MDS switches, and Brocade B-Series switches. This tool is intelligently build and it inserts necessary delays between commands to ensure the switch CPU is not loaded.
The process is really simple,
1, Download "SAN Health Diagnostics" from Brocade site or click here and you will be directed to download. This utility is specifically for windows and works with all windows versions.
2, Install the EXE and accepts defaults, the software will get installed in "program files" and until you change it, the default drive is going to be C:\.
3, Once the software is installed, access it from your desktop (or from start menu)and you will see first page(Site Details) as below, configure contact/company details and insert preferred email ID to which information to be delivered.
4, On the 3rd tab(SAN details) insert the fabric name which is being audited.
5, Next tab (Add switch Details) is for adding switch details, insert switch IP , user name and password.Click "Add switch/Fabric". This will add all the switches to the audit set ,which are connected to the fabric.
6,Once discovery is complete,move to "Start Audit" tab and click "Preflight Check". If everything is correct, the "Start Audit" tab will get highlighted.
7, click on "Start Audit", the audit will start straight away.
8, Once audit is complete, You will see two new files in the working directory(C:\SAN Health Audits):
The log file is record of the audit that completed and is useful when scheduling repeat or unattended audits.
The Brocade SAN Health (BSH) data file contains the encrypted and compressed raw diagnostic data from the switches that were audited. You must submit this data file to the Brocade report queue for processing.
BSH Files may be sent to the report processing queue as an email attachment to SHUpload@brocade.com or by using secure web upload.
Hope this helps!!:)