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

24 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
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Accessing Fabric Watch
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If the Fabric Watch license is not listed, continue to step 3; otherwise, you are ready to use
Fabric Watch.
3. Type licenseAdd “key”, where key is the Fabric Watch license key. License keys are
case-sensitive, so type the license key exactly as it appears.
switch:admin> licenseadd "R9cQ9RcbddUAdRAX"
4. To verify successful activation, type licenseShow. If the license is not listed, verify that you
typed the key correctly; if you did not, then repeat step 3.
If you still do not see the license, verify that the entered key is valid, and that the license key is
correct before repeating step 3.
5. Type fwClassinit to initialize the Fabric Watch classes.
Accessing Fabric Watch
This section provides a brief overview of the available user interfaces. Further details about Fabric
Watch operations for each interface are provided later in this guide. User interfaces include:
• “Telnet,” next
• “SNMP-based enterprise managers” on page 25
• “Configuration file” on page 26
• “Web Tools” on page 27
Telnet
Use a telnet session to:
• Observe the current monitors on a switch with the fwShow command.
• Query and modify threshold and alarm configurations (whether default or customized) with the
fwConfigure command.
• View and configure the FRU module with the fwFruCfg command.
• View and configure the e-mail addresses to which event messages are sent with the fwMailCfg
command.
To establish a telnet session, use the following command, where switch represents the name or IP
address of the switch:
telnet switch
When this command is executed, you are prompted for a username and password. To use Fabric
Watch, connect using an account with administrative privileges.