Users Guide

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 27

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Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP

8. Enter the IP address for the switch in the Host field in the MIB browser. Enter the community

string in the Community field. To perform set operations, enter the write community in the

Write Community field.

9. View and listen for trap details from a MIB browser menu.

NOTE

Any changes related to Fabric Watch, such as changing the status of the temperature sensor, will

generate traps.

10. Expand the tree on the left to find the Fabric Watch OID information. To find the OID, navigate

the following hierarchy: SW-MIB. bcsi. commDev; fibrechannel, fcSwitch, sw, swFWSystem.

Fabric Watch displays a window similar to the one shown in Figure 6.

FIGURE 6 Example OID tree

11. Obtain the specific identifier for the element that will be modified. To get the identifier, click the

swFwThresholdTable and swFwThresholdEntry directory, and run a get operation on

swFwName. A list of elements appears in which each element is preceded by an identifier.

Remember the numeric portion of the identifier, which appears before the “==>” symbol. You

can scroll through the list to find the numeric identifier for the element in which you are

interested.

For detailed descriptions of the SNMP fields in both Telnet and Web Tools, refer to the Fabric

OS MIB Reference.