Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.x (53-1002153-02, March 2012)

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Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Activating Fabric Watch using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Chapter 5 Fabric Watch Configuration
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Fabric Watch configuration tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
E-mail notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Showing e-mail configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Disabling an e-mail alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Enabling an e-mail alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Sending a test e-mail message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Setting recipient e-mail address for e-mail alert . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Setting the relay host IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Displaying the relay host configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Removing the relay host configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Configuring alarm notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Chapter 6 Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Fabric monitoring guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Fabric class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Fabric monitoring setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Fabric class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Security monitoring guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Security class areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Security monitoring default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
SFP monitoring guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
SFP class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SFP monitoring default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Performance monitoring guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . 47
Performance Monitor class areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Performance monitoring setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Performance Monitor class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
thConfig command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
thConfig command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
16 Gbps and QSFP monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Recommended settings for Fabric, SFP, Performance,
Security classes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Chapter 7 Port Monitoring
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57