Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001188-01, April 2009)

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Fabric Watch alarm notifications

Fabric Watch provides the following types of automatic notifications:

• A continuous alarm provides a warning message whenever a threshold is breached; it

continues to send alerts until the condition is corrected. For example, if a switch exceeds its

temperature threshold, Fabric Watch activates an alarm at every measurement interval until

the temperature returns to an acceptable level.

• A triggered alarm generates the first warning when a threshold condition is reached and a

second alarm when the threshold condition is cleared.

Fabric Watch event notifications

Fabric Watch provides event notifications in several different formats to ensure that event details

are accessible from all platforms and operating systems. In response to an event, Fabric Watch can

record event data as any (or all) of the following:

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap

Following an event, Fabric Watch transmits critical event data as an SNMP trap. Support for

SNMP makes Fabric Watch readily compatible with both network and enterprise management

solutions.

• Event log entry

Following an event, Fabric Watch adds an entry to the internal event log for an individual

switch, which stores up to 1024 error messages.

• Lock port log

Following an event, Fabric Watch adds an entry to the internal port log for an individual switch

and freezes the log to ensure that detail-level information is available.

• RAPI Trap

Following an event, Fabric Watch forwards event information to a proxy switch, which then

forwards the information to a server to notify you.

• E-mail notification

Following an event, Fabric Watch creates and sends an informational e-mail to a designated

recipient.

Refer to Chapter 5, “Notification methods” for more detail about each type of event notification.