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Chapter
4
Generating Fabric Watch Reports
In this chapter
•Types of Fabric Watch reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
•Viewing Fabric Watch reports using Telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Types of Fabric Watch reports
You can run reporting commands in Fabric Watch to get instant access to switch information.
Although the switchShow command provides basic switch information, the Fabric Watch reports
provide detailed information and enable you to track marginal or faulty ports that can affect
throughput or switch performance.
You can run reports on the command line using a telnet session, or by using Web Tools (if you have
installed a Web Tools license). Both tools generate reports that contain the same information, but
is presented differently. The examples in this chapter use the command line interface.
You can generate the following types of reports using Fabric Watch:
• “SAM report,” next
• “Switch health report” on page 59
• “Switch status policy report” on page 60
SAM report
The switch availability monitor (SAM) report lets you see the uptime and downtime for each port. It
also enables you to check if a particular port is failing more often than the others.
NOTE
SAM report details do not display the health status of GbE ports. Fabric Watch only monitors and
reports the status for physical and virtual FC ports.
Type the fwSamShow command to generate a SAM report. The following is an example of a SAM
report.