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Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrator’s Guide 7
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Chapter
2
Enabling and Configuring MAPS
In this chapter
•Enabling MAPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
•MAPS configuration quick start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
•MAPS configuration tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Enabling MAPS
MAPS is not enabled by default. To enable MAPS, enter the following command:
mapsConfig --enableMaps -policy policyname
You must supply a named policy to enable MAPS.
Once you have converted the Fabric Watch rules for use in MAPS (this must be done first), you can
enable and configure MAPS. Refer to “MAPS configuration quick start” on page 7 and “Migrating
from Fabric Watch to MAPS” on page 3 for more information on making the migration and getting
started with MAPS.
MAPS configuration quick start
You can quickly start monitoring your switch using one of the predefined policies. Alternatively, if
you are already using Fabric Watch and would like MAPS to use the same thresholds, convert the
Fabric Watch policies into MAPS policies and then enable MAPS using the policy named
“fw_active_policy”. This provides the same monitoring functionality as Fabric Watch. Refer to
“Fabric Watch legacy policies” on page 23 for more information about Fabric Watch converted
policies.
You can monitor your switch for a while using the default policy, then fine-tune the policy as
necessary to fit your environment. When you are satisfied with the configuration settings, you
activate the actions you want to happen when thresholds are crossed.
To monitor a switch in this manner, complete the following steps.
1. Enable MAPS using mapsConfig --enablemaps.
2. Migrate from Fabric Watch using the default policy mapsConfig --fwconvert -enablepolicy.
Refer to “MAPS and Fabric Watch” on page 2 for more details.
Unless you specify otherwise, as part of the migration, Fabric Watch configurations are not
converted to MAPS policies, Fabric Watch commands are disabled, and MAPS commands are
enabled. The default active policy is named dflt_conservative_policy.