Deployment Guide

Fabric Watch legacy policies
When you migrate from Fabric Watch to MAPS, the following three policies are automatically created if
you have used mapsConfig --fwconvert. If you do not use this command, then these policies are not
created.
• fw_custom_policy
This policy contains all of the monitoring rules based on the custom thresholds configured in Fabric
Watch.
• fw_default_policy
This policy contains all of the monitoring rules based on the default thresholds configured in Fabric
Watch.
• fw_active_policy
This policy contains all of the monitoring rules based on the active thresholds in Fabric Watch at the
time of the conversion.
These policies are treated as user-defined policies. You can modify them by adding and deleting rules,
and you can delete them.
The following factors also apply to Fabric Watch conversions:
• Converted active Fabric Watch policies reference either custom or default Fabric Watch rules.
• No custom rules are created if the "custom" thresholds are the same as the default thresholds.
Instead, the default Fabric Watch rule will be referenced in the fw_custom_policy.
• Converted rules are prefixed with “fw_def_name” or “fw_cust_name”. The value for name is a string
based on the Fabric Watch class, the area, threshold criteria (above high or below low), and the
threshold number. This is the same pattern that MAPS rules use.
Working with MAPS policies
The following sections discuss viewing, creating, enabling, disabling, and modifying MAPS policies.
Viewing policy information
MAPS allows you to view the policies on a switch. You can use this command to show all policies, only
a particular policy, or a summary.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Choose from the following options:
• To view a summary of all the policies on the switch, enter mapsPolicy --show -summary. This
displays the policy names and the number of rules in each policy.
• To view the features of all the policies on the switch, enter mapsPolicy --show -all. This displays
the policy names, rule names, actions, and conditions for each policy for all policies.
• To view the features of a specific policy on the switch, enter mapsPolicy --show policy_name.
This displays the policy names, rule names, actions, and conditions for the named policy.
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