Deployment Guide

NOTE
Both the APM license and the Fabric Watch license must be installed on the platform configured in AG
mode to use the frame monitoring and EE monitoring capabilities. The APM license provides the
counters and the Fabric Watch license provides the monitoring and alert mechanisms for these
counters.
To set the high threshold of the RX area, enter the thConfig command using the following
parameters.
switch:admin> thconfig --set ee -area RX -timebase minute -high -val 12
Pausing and continuing monitoring
To pause the monitoring of a class, area, and port or index, enter the thConfig command using the
following parameters.
NOTE
You cannot specify all for all classes but you can specify all for all areas.
switch:admin> thconfig --pause | --continue class -area area_type -port[/slot] port
switch:admin> thconfig --pause | --continue class -area area_type -index index
NOTE
The Security and Fabric classes do not have a port or index value. For those classes, a value of 0 is
assumed.
Monitoring the filter performance class
You can monitor the Filter Performance Monitor class and specify a filter monitor to be tracked by
Fabric Watch. The PERFPT area provides threshold values to the user-defined frame type. When a
new user-defined frame type is created using the fmMonitor command, the threshold value is
automatically based on the PERFPT configuration at the time the frame type is created.
To specify and track a filter monitor, use the thConfig command.
In the following example the high threshold value is 10. Therefore, all frame monitors configured
hereafter will have a high threshold value of 10.
switch:admin> thconfig --set filter -area PERFPT -high -val 10
16 Gbps SFP and QSFP monitoring
Fabric Watch can monitor Brocade 16 Gbps SFPs. By default, if the SFP crosses a configured
threshold, Fabric Watch generates an SNMP alarm, a RASLog message, and an e-mail alert for the
following SFP areas:
• Current
• Voltage
• Temperature
• RXP
• TXP
• Power on Hours (Power on Hours is not supported on the 10 Gbps SFP or the QSFP.)
Pausing and continuing monitoring
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