HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.0.0 Fabric Watch User Guide (AA-RW1TA-TE, May 2005)

An introduction to Fabric Watch16
Fabric Watch lets you define notification thresholds. Whenever fabric elements exceed these
thresholds, Fabric Watch automatically provides notification using several methods, including
email messages, SNMP traps, and log entries.
Fabric Watch provides the following two types of automatic notifications:
• A continuous alarm provides a warning message whenever a threshold is breached; it
continues to send alerts until the condition is corrected. For example, if a switch exceeds its
temperature threshold, Fabric Watch activates an alarm at every measurement interval
until the temperature returns to an acceptable level.
• A triggered alarm generates the first warning when a threshold condition is reached and a
second alarm when the threshold condition is cleared.
Fabric Watch provides event notifications in several different formats to ensure that event
details are accessible from all platforms and operating systems. In response to an event,
Fabric Watch can record event data as any (or all) of the following:
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap
Following an event, Fabric Watch transmits critical event data as an SNMP trap. Support
for SNMP makes Fabric Watch readily compatible with both network and enterprise
management solutions.
• Event log entry
Following an event, Fabric Watch adds an entry to the internal Event Log for an individual
switch, which stores up to 1024 error messages.
• Lock port log
Following an event, Fabric Watch adds an entry to the internal port log for an individual
switch and freezes the log to ensure that detail-level information is available.
• RapiTrap
Following an event, Fabric Watch forwards event information to a proxy switch, which
then forwards the information to a server to notify you.
• Email notification
Following an event, Fabric Watch creates and sends an Informational email to a
designated recipient.
Fabric Watch is designed for rapid deployment. Simply enabling Fabric Watch permits
immediate fabric monitoring. Fabric Watch is also designed for rapid custom configuration.
You can easily create and modify configuration files using a text editor and then distribute
configurations to all the switches in the SAN through the Fabric OS configuration
management utility. Fabric Watch also comes with preconfigured profiles for rapid
implementation.