Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) Manual

Administering Fabric Watch
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Fabric Watch overview
Fabric Watch is an optional Brocade licensed feature that monitors the performance and status of
switches. Fabric Watch can automatically alert you when problems arise, before they become costly
failures.
NOTE
If you do not own the switch, Fabric Watch is view-only. Owning ports on a switch is not enough to
enable Fabric Watch on that switch. To use Fabric Watch, you must have the Fabric Watch license or
Fabric Vision license installed on the switch.
Fabric Watch tracks a number of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. For example, Fabric
Watch monitors the following:
• Fabric resources, including fabric reconfigurations, zoning changes, new logins, domain ID changes,
E_Port failures, and segmentation changes
• Switch environmental functions, such as temperature, flash, CPU and memory usage, along with
security violations
• Port state transitions, errors, and traffic information for multiple port classes, as well as operational
values for supported models of Finisar "Smart" GBICs/SFPs
Fabric Watch lets you define how often to measure each switch and fabric element and allows you to
specify notification thresholds. Whenever fabric elements exceed these thresholds, Fabric Watch
automatically provides notification using several methods, including e-mail messages, SNMP traps, and
log entries.
For detailed information regarding Fabric Watch, refer to the Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide.
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