Deployment Guide

FCIP Health
The FCIP Health category enables you to define rules for FCIP health, including circuit state changes,
circuit state utilization, and packet loss.
The following tables list the monitored parameters in this category. The first table lists those FCIP
Health parameters monitored on all Brocade platforms.
FCIP Health category parametersTABLE 12
Monitored parameter Description
FCIP circuit state changes
(CIR_STATE)
The state of the circuit has changed for one of the following reasons:
• The circuit has gone offline.
• The circuit has come online.
• The circuit is faulty.
FCIP circuit utilization (CIR_UTIL) The percentage of circuit utilization in the configured time period (this can
be minute, hour, or day).
FCIP circuit packet loss
(CIR_PKTLOSS)
The percentage of the total number of packets that have had to be
retransmitted.
The following FCIP parameters are only monitored on the Brocade 7840 extension switch. These
parameters are in addition to the ones listed in the previous table.
Brocade 7840 FCIP Health category parametersTABLE 13
Monitored parameter Description
FCIP packet loss (PKTLOSS) The percentage of the total number of packets that have had to be
retransmitted in each QoS level. This applies to each FCIP QoS group only.
FCIP tunnel state change
(STATE_CHG)
The count of FCIP tunnel state changes. This applies to the tunnel group
only.
FCIP tunnel or QoS utilization
(UTIL)
The percentage of FCIP utilization. This applies to both the tunnel and the
QoS groups.
FCIP circuit round trip time (RTT) The circuit round-trip latency. This is an absolute value, and only applies to
the circuit group.
FCIP circuit jitter (JITTER) The amount of jitter in a circuit. This is a calculated percentage, and only
applies to the circuit group.
Refer to the FCIP monitoring thresholds on page 99 for the default values.
Fabric Performance Impact
The Fabric Performance Impact category monitors the current condition of the latency seen on
F_Ports over different time windows and uses that to determine the performance impact to the fabric
and network. Alerts are generated only if MAPS determines the latencies on the ports are severe
FCIP Health
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