Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v11.1x (53-1002167-01, May 2011)
Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual 823
53-1002167-01
Chapter
29
Policy Monitor
In this chapter
•Policy Monitor overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
•Viewing existing policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827
•Adding a policy monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828
•Editing a policy monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833
•Deleting a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
•Running a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
•Viewing a policy monitor report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
•Policy monitor scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839
Policy Monitor overview
Use this feature is to provide best practice guidelines for network setup at the fabric, switch, port
and device level as well as software configurations at the Fabric OS, Network OS and the
Management application level.
Configuring policy monitors enables you to perform the following:
• Provide selectable and configurable built-in rules to check for best practices
• Schedule policies to run periodically
• Run a policy manually (on demand)
• Generate a report that will detail any issues found by the policy
The following sections provide more detailed information on the policy monitor type and rules.
•Fabric policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824
•SAN Switch policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
•Host policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
•Management policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827