Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002153-01, April 2011)

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Reasons to customize Fabric Watch settings

Customization is recommended to achieve the following objectives:

• Selecting one or more event settings

• Selecting an appropriate message delivery method for critical and noncritical events

• Selecting appropriate thresholds and alarm levels relevant to each class element

• Defining the appropriate Time Base event triggering based on the class element traits

• Eliminating message delivery that has little or no practical value to the SAN administrator

• Consolidating multiple messages generated from a single event

Before you begin an implementation, make some decisions surrounding the major configuration

tasks: monitoring and configuring thresholds, actions, events, time bases, and alerts. These tasks

are discussed in the following sections.

Monitoring

Do you want to monitor all class areas, or implement the monitoring in incremental stages? If you

monitor class areas incrementally, you should configure Fabric Watch to monitor the classes in the

following order:

1. Monitor Fabric class areas using the thConfig command.

Refer to Chapter 6, “Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring,” for details.

2. Monitor Port class areas using the portThConfig command.

Refer to Chapter 7, “Port Monitoring,” for details.

3. Monitor FRU class areas using the fwFruCfg command.

Refer to Chapter 8, “System Monitoring,” for details.

NOTE

For each class area, there are setting guidelines and recommendations for whether you should

leave the setting at the default or change the settings. If a change is recommended, the reason for

the change and the suggested settings are provided in each of the configuration chapters. The

default settings are listed in these chapters as well.

Threshold and action configuration

Before you begin to configure thresholds, decide if you want to have different levels of alerts for

E_ports, FOP_Ports, and FCU_Ports, and configure the ports individually. Always set up thresholds

one fabric at a time and test the configuration before you apply the threshold configuration to more

switches or fabrics.

NOTE

You cannot configure different thresholds for server and storage ports, because threshold

configuration is an area-wide setting and cannot be configured on an element (port).