Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.0.0 (53-1000601-01, October 2007)

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Fabric Watch components

NOTE

Physical link error counters and statistics (such as link failure count, loss of signal count, and RX and

TX performance percentages) are not applicable to VE_Ports.

Resource class area

Table 7 describes the Product Name resource class area.

Security class areas

Table 8 lists Product Name areas in the security class and describes what each area indicates. For

details on each area, see the Secure Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.

TABLE 7 Resource class area

Area Description

Flash Monitor Monitors the compact flash space available by calculating the percentage of flash space

consumed and comparing it with the configured high threshold value.

TABLE 8 Security class areas

Area Indicates

API Violation An API access request reaches a secure switch from an unauthorized IP address.

DCC Violation An unauthorized device attempts to log in to a secure fabric.

Front Panel Violation A secure switch detects unauthorized front panel access.

HTTP Violation A browser access request reaches a secure switch from an unauthorized IP address.

Illegal Command Commands permitted only to the primary Fibre Channel Switch (FCS) are executed on

another switch.

Incompatible DB Secure switches with different version stamps have been detected.

Invalid Certificates The primary FCS sends a certificate to all switches in the secure fabric before it sends

configuration data. Receiving switches accept only packets with the correct certificate;

any other certificates are invalid and represent an attempted security breach.

Invalid Signatures If a switch cannot verify the signature of a packet, the switch rejects the packet and the

signature becomes invalid.

Invalid Timestamps If a time interval becomes too great from the time a packet is sent to the time it is

received, the timestamp of the packet becomes invalid and the switch rejects it.

MS Violation An MS (Management Server) violation occurs when an access request reaches a

secure switch from an unauthorized WWN (World Wide Name). The WWN appears in

the ERRLOG.

No FCS The switch has lost contact with the primary FCS.

RSNMP Violation An RSNMP (Remote Simple Network Management Protocol) violation occurs when an

SNMP (simple network management protocol) get operation reaches a secure switch

from an unauthorized IP address.

SCC Violation An SCC violation occurs when an unauthorized switch tries to join a secure fabric. The

WWN of the unauthorized switch appears in the ERRLOG.

Serial Violation A serial violation occurs when a secure switch detects an unauthorized serial port

connection request.