Deployment Guide

Contents
Preface.....................................................................................................................................7
Document conventions......................................................................................7
Text formatting conventions.................................................................. 7
Command syntax conventions.............................................................. 7
Notes, cautions, and warnings.............................................................. 8
Brocade resources............................................................................................ 9
Contacting Brocade Technical Support.............................................................9
Document feedback........................................................................................ 10
About This Document.............................................................................................................. 11
Supported hardware and software.................................................................. 11
What's new in this document...........................................................................11
Fabric Watch...........................................................................................................................13
Fabric health................................................................................................... 13
Fabric Watch overview....................................................................................13
Role-based access control..............................................................................14
Fabric Watch licensing.................................................................................... 14
Reasons to customize Fabric Watch settings................................................. 14
Event behavior configuration...............................................................14
Alert configuration............................................................................... 15
Time base configuration......................................................................15
Threshold and action configuration..................................................... 15
Monitoring........................................................................................... 15
Post-processing of messages............................................................. 16
Class, area, and element hierarchy................................................................ 16
Switch monitoring components....................................................................... 16
Fabric events monitoring.....................................................................16
Performance monitoring......................................................................16
Security monitoring............................................................................. 17
SFP monitoring................................................................................... 17
Port monitoring....................................................................................17
System resource monitoring............................................................... 18
Switch policies.....................................................................................18
Logical switch support.....................................................................................19
Threshold monitoring using SNMP tables.......................................................19
MIB capability configuration parameters............................................. 19
Fabric Watch event settings............................................................................20
Fabric Watch notification types....................................................................... 20
E-mail alerts........................................................................................ 20
SNMP traps.........................................................................................20
RASLog for switch events................................................................... 21
Locked port log....................................................................................21
Fabric Watch audit messages.........................................................................21
Data values..................................................................................................... 22
Fabric Watch support in Access Gateway mode............................................ 22
Fabric Watch Administrators Guide
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