HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.0.0 Fabric Watch User Guide (AA-RW1TA-TE, May 2005)
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- An introduction to Fabric Watch
- Fabric Watch concepts
- Fabric watch components
- Configuring events
- Port persistence
- Notification methods
- Switch policies
- Interpreting event messages
- Activating and accessing Fabric Watch
- Configuring Fabric Watch
- Configuring Fabric Watch thresholds
- Configuring notifications
- Configuring switch status policy
- Configuring FRUs
- Configuring Fabric Watch using Web Tools
- Configuring Fabric Watch using SNMP
- Generating Fabric Watch reports
- Default threshold values
- Basic Fabric Watch configuration guidelines
- Using Fabric Watch with configuration files
- Glossary
- Index

25Fabric OS 5.0.0 Fabric Watch user guide
FRU class areas
Table 6 lists Fabric Watch areas in the FRU class and describes each area. Possible states for
all FRU-class areas are absent, faulty, inserted, on, off, ready, and up.
Supported FRU areas depend on your particular HP switch model. The Slot and WWN areas
are not supported for the following switches:
• HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V, 2/16V and 2/16N
• HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/32
• HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/32
Performance monitor class areas
Table 7 lists Fabric Watch areas in the Performance Monitor class and describes each area.
Table 6 FRU class areas
Area Indicates
Slot State of a slot has changed.
Power Supply State of a power supply has changed.
Fan State of a fan has changed.
WWN State of a WWN card has changed.
Table 7 Performance monitor class areas
Area Indicates
Customer Define Relies on performance monitor telnet commands. For more information
on this area, refer to the HP StorageWorks
Fabric OS 4.x command
reference guide
.
Invalid CRC Errors have been detected in the Fibre Channel frame. Invalid CRC
messages occur when the number of CRC errors in Fibre Channel
frames for specific source ID (S_ID) and destination ID (D_ID) pairs
change. These messages can also be caused by dirty or aging
equipment and temperature fluctuations.