SAN Health supports switches from manufacturers other than Brocade, such as Cisco. Both  the data collection tool download and the processing of files are available at no cost. You can  download Microsoft Visio and Excel viewers at no cost from the Microsoft website. Another tool, which is known as  SAN Health Professional , is also available for download at no  cost. With this tool, you can audit the reports in detail by using advanced search functions and  inventory tracking. You can configure the SAN Health Diagnostics Capture tool as a Windows  scheduled task: Broadcom SAN Health Professional Download Tip:  Regardless of the method that is used, generate a fresh report at least once a month.  Keep previous versions so that you can track the evolution of your SAN. If you have IBM Spectrum Control running in your environment, you can use it to generate  reports on your SAN. For more information about how to configure and schedule IBM  Spectrum Control reports, see the IBM Spectrum Control Documentation. Also see Chapter 8, “Monitoring” on page 267 on how to configure and set-up Spectrum  Control. Ensure that the reports that you generate include all the information that you need. Schedule  the reports with a period that you can use to backtrack any changes that you make. You can back up the configuration data for an IBM FlashSystem 9100 system after  preliminary tasks are completed. Configuration data for the system provides information  about your system and the objects that are defined in it. Before you back up your configuration data, the following prerequisites must be met: Note:  The system automatically creates a backup of the configuration data each day at  1 AM. This backup is known as a  cron backup  and is written on the configuration node to  /dumps/svc.config.cron.xml_<serial#> . Use these instructions to generate a manual backup at any time: The command displays messages similar to the ones in Example 9-1. IBM Spectrum Control reporting 9.1.3 IBM FlashSystem 9100 documentation GLYPH<SM590000> No independent operations that change the configuration for the system can be running  while the  backup  command is running. GLYPH<SM590000> No object name can begin with an underscore character (_). 1. Issue the  svcconfig backup  command to back up your configuration: Example 9-1 Sample svcconfig backup command output CMMVC6112W io_grp io_grp1 has a default name CMMVC6112W io_grp io_grp2 has a default name CMMVC6112W mdisk mdisk14 ... CMMVC6112W node node1 ... CMMVC6112W node node2 ... .................................................... 326  IBM FlashSystem 9200 and 9100 Best Practices and Performance Guidelines