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

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Fabric monitoring
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• The switch is unreachable in Fabric Manager. When you add this unreachable switch
to the Selected Switches list, the Status column text changes to Unreachable.
NOTE
If you did not log in to all of the switches successfully, remove the successful switches from the
Selected Switches panel and retry with a new user ID and password.
A key icon displays next to each switch and fabric that completes a successful login. The key
icon is displayed next to the fabric only if authentication is successful for all the switches in the
fabric.
Fabric monitoring
In the SAN View, the Overview tab of the Information panel displays the number of discovered
fabrics and the number of fabrics you are monitoring, as shown in Figure 43. The number of
discovered fabrics might be higher than the number of fabrics you are monitoring if other Fabric
Manager clients have discovered fabrics.
FIGURE 43 Information panel showing discovered and monitored fabrics
You can monitor these fabrics using the following procedure.
Monitoring already discovered fabrics
1. Select Discovery > Monitor Fabrics.
The Monitor Fabrics dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 44.