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

4 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide

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Fabric Watch components

Table 1 describes the classes into which Fabric Watch groups all switch and fabric elements.

TABLE 1 Product Name classes

Class Description

Environment Includes information about the physical environment in which the switch resides

and the internal environment of the switch. For example, an Environment-class

alarm alerts you to problems or potential problems with temperature, fans, and

power.

Fabric Groups areas of potential problems arising between devices, including interswitch

link (ISL) details, zoning, and traffic. A Fabric-class alarm alerts you to problems or

potential problems with interconnectivity.

Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) Monitors the status of FRUs and provides an alert when a part replacement is

needed. This class monitors states, not thresholds.

Performance Monitor Serves as a tuning tool. The Performance Monitor class groups areas that track the

source and destination of traffic. Use the Performance Monitor class thresholds

and alarms to determine traffic load and flow and to reallocate resources

appropriately.

The Performance Monitor class is divided into the areas AL_PA Performance

Monitor, EE (end-to-end) Performance Monitor, and Filter Performance Monitor.

Performance Monitoring is not supported on VE, EX, and VEX ports.

Port Enables you to set additional thresholds, specific to different types of ports.

The Port class is made up of the following classes:

• E_Port class—Represents ports connected to another switch.

Note: If you are using a Brocade 48000 with a FR4-18i blade, or the Brocade

7500, the E_Port class monitors the following additional ports and creates

monitors for each of the logical ports:

— FCR (includes EX_Ports)

— FCIP (includes VE_Ports, VEX_Ports)

• F/FL_Port class —Represents fabric or fabric loop ports that are made of

copper or optical fiber.

Resource Monitors flash memory. It calculates the amount of flash space consumed and

compares it to a defined threshold.

Security Monitors all attempts to breach your SAN security, helping you fine-tune your

security measures.

SFP Groups areas that monitor the physical aspects of SFPs. An SFP class alarm alerts

you to a SFP malfunction fault.

Note: SFPs connected to GbE ports are not monitored.