Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001770-01, June 2010)

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Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch

Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP

You can integrate Fabric Watch with existing enterprise systems management tools, such as SNMP.

The Fabric Watch Management Information Base (MIB) lets system administrators configure fabric

elements, receive SNMP traps generated by fabric events, and obtain the status of fabric elements

through SNMP-based enterprise managers.

NOTE

The following instructions apply to the AdvantNet MIB browser. There may be some variation in the

procedures when other MIB browsers are used.

1. Open a MIB browser.

2. Load the appropriate MIB files if you have not already done so. First load the Brocade common

MIB file, (SW.mib). If this is successful, the system displays a screen similar to Figure 8.

FIGURE 8 Configuring Fabric Watch using SNMP

In Figure 8, the MIB browser populated the left side of the screen with a MIB tree that you can

navigate.

3. Open Web Tools and select Tasks > Manage > Switch Admin.

4. Click Show Advanced Mode.

5. On the SNMP tab, enter the IP address of the trap receiver and the severity level, and click

Apply.

NOTE

The severity level must be informational (4) in order to forward threshold alerts.