Administrator's Guide v4.1.1 Manual

Using System Monitor and Threshold Monitor......................................................................235
System Monitor overview............................................................................235
Monitored components....................................................................235
Monitored FRUs..............................................................................235
Configuring System Monitor........................................................................237
Setting system thresholds...............................................................239
Setting state alerts and actions.......................................................239
Configuring e-mail alerts................................................................. 239
Viewing system SFP optical monitoring defaults............................ 240
Displaying the switch health status................................................. 240
Threshold Monitor overview........................................................................240
CPU and memory monitoring..........................................................241
SFP monitoring............................................................................... 242
Security monitoring......................................................................... 244
Interface monitoring........................................................................ 244
Configuring Threshold Monitor....................................................................245
Viewing threshold status................................................................. 246
CPU and memory threshold monitoring..........................................246
Configuring SFP monitoring thresholds and alerts......................... 247
Security monitoring......................................................................... 248
Configuring interface monitoring..................................................... 248
Pausing and continuing threshold monitoring................................. 248
Using VMware vCenter ........................................................................................................251
vCenter and Network OS integration overview........................................... 251
vCenter properties...........................................................................251
vCenter guidelines and restrictions.................................................251
vCenter discovery....................................................................................... 252
vCenter configuration..................................................................................252
Step 1: Enabling QoS......................................................................253
Step 2: Enabling CDP/LLDP .......................................................... 253
Step 3: Adding and Activating the vCenter..................................... 253
Discovery timer interval ..................................................................254
User-triggered vCenter discovery................................................... 254
Viewing the discovered virtual assets............................................. 255
Configuring Remote Monitoring...........................................................................................257
RMON overview..........................................................................................257
Configuring and Managing RMON..............................................................257
Configuring RMON events.............................................................. 257
Configuring RMON Ethernet group statistics collection.................. 258
Configuring RMON alarm settings.................................................. 258
Section II: Network OS Security Configuration......................................................................259
Managing User Accounts.................................................................................................... 261
Understanding and managing user accounts............................................. 261
Default accounts in the local switch user database........................ 261
User account attributes................................................................... 261
Configuring user accounts.............................................................. 262
Understanding and managing password policies....................................... 265
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