Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0)

Fabric Watch Thresholds....................................................................................................... 25
Threshold values...........................................................................................25
In-between buffer values...................................................................25
Threshold triggers......................................................................................... 26
Above event trigger...........................................................................26
Below event trigger........................................................................... 27
Audit and RASLog messages........................................................... 27
Time bases....................................................................................................27
Time base set to none.......................................................................27
Time base set to other than none..................................................... 28
Fabric Watch alarm behavior........................................................................ 29
Fabric Watch Threshold Components.....................................................................................31
Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements................................................. 31
Classes............................................................................................. 31
Class areas....................................................................................... 31
Elements........................................................................................... 32
Fabric Watch Activation.........................................................................................................35
Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch...........................................................35
Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session........................................... 35
Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP........................................................... 36
Activating Fabric Watch using Web Tools.....................................................38
Fabric Watch Configuration...................................................................................................41
Fabric Watch configuration tasks..................................................................41
Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values..........................................43
E-mail notification configuration.................................................................... 43
Showing e-mail configuration information......................................... 43
Disabling an e-mail alert....................................................................44
Enabling an e-mail alert.................................................................... 44
Sending a test e-mail message.........................................................44
Setting the recipient e-mail address for an e-mail alert.....................45
Setting the relay host IP address...................................................... 45
Displaying the relay host configuration............................................. 45
Removing the relay host configuration..............................................45
Notification configuration...............................................................................46
Configuring alarm notifications..........................................................46
Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring................................................................47
Fabric monitoring guidelines and default settings.........................................47
Fabric class areas.............................................................................47
Fabric monitoring setting guidelines..................................................48
Fabric class default settings..............................................................48
Security monitoring guidelines and default settings......................................50
Security class areas..........................................................................50
Security monitoring default settings.................................................. 50
SFP monitoring guidelines and default settings............................................52
SFP class areas................................................................................53
SFP monitoring default settings........................................................ 53
Performance monitoring guidelines and default settings.............................. 54
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Fabric Watch Administrators Guide
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