Fabric OS Documentation Updates Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.x

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Documentation updates for Fabric Watch v7.0.0 and later
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This paragraph should read as follows:
Fabric Watch does not support threshold areas such as link loss or signal loss or state changes for
logical interswitch links (LISLs) as it does for normal E_Ports.
Chapter 6. Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring
Add a new section, “Monitoring the filter performance class” before the “16 Gbps SFP and QSFP
monitoring” section with the following information:
You can monitor the Filter Performance Monitor class and specify a filter monitor to be tracked by
Fabric Watch.
To specify and track a filter monitor, enter the thConfig command using the following parameters.
switch:admin> thconfig --set filter -area PERFPT -high -val 10
The PERFPT area provides threshold values to the user-defined frame type. When a new
user-defined frame type is created using the fmMonitor command, the threshold value is
automatically based on the PERFPT configuration at the time the frame type is created. In the
above example, the high threshold value is 10. Therefore, all frame monitors configured hereafter
will have a high threshold value of 10.
Chapter 7. Port Monitoring
The following note that currently appears in Chapter 7, page 70, is incorrect.
Active or online ports with errors that exceed the threshold are fenced after a six-second delay. In
cases where two types of errors occur within the six-second interval, the port is disabled and
indicates the reason code for the first error type that exceeded the threshold.
The corrected statement should read as follows:
Active or online ports with errors that exceed the threshold are fenced after a six-second delay. This
statement is applicable to CRC, ITW, and LR areas only.
In Table 17, “E_Port class default settings” on page 62, remove the rows for “Packet loss (VE_Port
only)” and “Utilization”.
Chapter 8. System Monitoring
The following information does not currently exist in the Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide, and
will be added at the next major release of Fabric OS:
The default Fabric Watch policy for the Brocade DCX 8510-8 with total power consumption of more
than 2000w does not properly reflect the switch status on the power supply. Fabric Watch users
must manually update their default configuration for the minimum number of power supplies to
three if they have installed more than 256 ports in an 8510-8 chassis.