Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Alert monitoring

Viewing alerts for switch groups

1. Click Tasks > Groups > Manage Switch/Port Groups.

The Groups view displays (see Figure 48 on page 74).

2. Select one of the following from the tree on the left side of the window, depending on the alerts

you want to display:

• To view all alerts for all switch groups, select the SwitchGroups node.

• To view all alerts for a specific switch group, expand the SwitchGroups node and select the

user-created switch group.

• To view all alerts for a specific switch in a switch group, expand the SwitchGroups node,

expand the user-created switch group, and select the switch.

3. Click the Alerts tab in the view selection panel on the right side of the window.

Figure 63 shows an example of the Alerts tab.

Unacknowledged and unresolved alert information is displayed in bold text by default in the

Alerts tab. You can configure the alert display options to change what types of alerts are

displayed in bold text.

NOTE

In a Linux environment, unresolved alerts are not shown in bold text.

FIGURE 63 Alerts tab

Alert identification

Any switches and fabrics with unacknowledged or unresolved alerts of either Critical or Warning

severity level are easy to identify in the Fabric Manager interface. The upper right corner of the

Fabric Manager client displays a SAN-level summary of unacknowledged and unresolved alerts, as

shown in Figure 64. The alerts are organized by severity level (for example, “1 Critical, 3 Warning”),

and each category is a link. When you click one of these links, the SAN level topology is displayed in

the View panel and the SAN details are displayed in the Information panel with the Alerts tab

selected. The filter on the Alerts tab is set to display the severity level of the selected link.

You can right-click any of the alerts in the Alerts tab and then click Show on Topology to display and

highlight the item in the View panel to which the alert applies (see Figure 64).