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Chapter
5
Fabric Watch Configuration
In this chapter
•Fabric Watch configuration tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
•Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
•E-mail notification configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
•Notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Fabric Watch configuration tasks
Table 2 lists the Fabric Watch commands you can use to create custom threshold configurations.
For complete information about any of these commands, refer to the Fabric OS Command
Reference.
TABLE 2 Fabric Watch configuration tasks
Configuration task Command Location of procedure
Initialize all Fabric Watch classes. fwClassInit “Activating Fabric Watch using a
Telnet session” on page 23.
Set the boundary and alarm level to custom or
default.
Note: These commands reset all thresholds
for all classes and cannot be configured on
individual ports.
fwSetToCustom
fwSetToDefault
“Setting Fabric Watch custom and
default values” on page 30.
Configure Fabric Watch e-mail alerts for all
classes.
fwMailCfg “E-mail notification configuration” on
page 31.
Configure and show alarms filtering for Fabric
Watch for all classes.
fwAlarmsFilterSet
fwAlarmsFilterShow
“Configuring alarm notifications” on
page 34.
Set the following parameters for SFP, Fabric,
Security, and Performance monitoring:
• Class
• Area type
• Time base
• Threshold level
• Trigger (boundary level)
• Action (notification type)
• Buffer
thConfig Chapter 6, “Fabric, Security, SFP, and
Performance Monitoring”.
Enable or disable monitoring for the 10 Gbps
and 16 Gbps SFPs and QSFPs.
thMonitor Chapter 6, “Fabric, Security, SFP, and
Performance Monitoring”.