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

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Chapter

Fabric Watch

In this chapter

•Work with Fabric Watch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

•Launching Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

•Fabric Watch activities in Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Work with Fabric Watch

Fabric Watch is an optional, licensed feature that monitors the performance and status of switches

and can automatically alert you when problems arise. Fabric Watch tracks a variety of SAN fabric

elements, events, and counters. For example, Fabric Watch monitors:

• Fabric resources, including fabric reconfigurations, zoning changes, and new logins.

• Switch environmental functions such as temperature, power supply, and fan status, plus

security violations.

• Port state transitions, errors, and traffic information for multiple port classes as well as

operational values for supported models of Finisar “Smart” GBICs/SFPs.

• Performance information for AL_PA, end-to-end, and SCSI command metrics.

Fabric Watch lets you define how often to measure each switch and fabric element and to specify

notification thresholds. Whenever fabric elements exceed these thresholds, Fabric Watch

automatically provides notification using several methods, including e-mail messages, SNMP traps,

and log entries.

NOTE

To use the Fabric Watch feature, you must have a Fabric Watch license installed on your switch.

Fabric Manager launches Web Tools to configure Fabric Watch. You cannot access the Fabric

Watch module if the switch does not have a Fabric Watch license or if the switch is unreachable.

For more detailed information about Fabric Watch, see the Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide.

Launching Fabric Watch

1. Right-click a switch and select Fabric Watch from the context menu.

If the switch user name and password do not exist or are invalid, you are prompted to enter the

correct user name and password.

Web Tools launches and displays the Fabric Watch module, as shown in Figure 155 on

page 240.