Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000435-01, June 2007)

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Publication Number: 53-1000435-01

Chapter

Administering Fabric Watch

In this chapter

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Introduction to Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

• Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

• Configuring Fabric Watch thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . 159

• Configuring alarms for FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

• Displaying Fabric Watch alarm information . . . . . . 163

• Configuring email notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Introduction to Fabric Watch

Fabric Watch is a Brocade optionally-licensed feature that monitors the performance and status of

switches. Fabric Watch can automatically alert you when problems arise, before they become costly

failures.

NOTE

Fabric Watch is view-only if you do not own the switch. Owning ports on a switch is not enough to

enable Fabric Watch on that switch.

To use Fabric Watch, you must have a Fabric Watch license installed on the switch.

Fabric Watch tracks a number of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. For example, Fabric

Watch monitors:

• Fabric resources, including fabric reconfigurations, zoning changes, and new logins.

• Switch environmental functions, such as temperature, power supply, and fan status, along with

security violations.

• Port state transitions, errors, and traffic information for multiple port classes as well as

operational values for supported models of Finisar “Smart” GBICs/SFPs.

• Performance information for AL_PA, end-to-end, and SCSI command metrics.

Fabric Watch lets you define how often to measure each switch and fabric element and allows you

to specify notification thresholds. Whenever fabric elements exceed these thresholds, Fabric Watch

automatically provides notification using several methods, including email messages, SNMP traps,

and log entries.

For detailed information regarding Fabric Watch, see the Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide.