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

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Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch
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Fabric Watch and SNMP
You can integrate Fabric Watch with existing enterprise systems management tools, such as SNMP.
The Fabric Watch Management Information Base (MIB) lets system administrators configure fabric
elements, receive SNMP traps generated by fabric events, and obtain the status of fabric elements
through SNMP-based enterprise managers.
NOTE
The following instructions apply to the AdvantNet MIB browser. There may be some variation in the
procedures when other MIB browsers are used.
Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP
1. Open a MIB browser.
2. Load the appropriate MIB files if you have not already done so. First load the Brocade common
MIB file, (SW_v5_3.mib). If this is successful, the system displays a screen similar to Figure 9.
FIGURE 9 Configuring Fabric Watch using SNMP
In Figure 9, the MIB browser populated the left side of the screen with a MIB tree that you can
navigate.
3. Open Web Tools and select Tasks > Manage > Switch Admin.
4. Click Show Advanced Mode.
5. On the SNMP tab, enter the IP address of the trap receiver and the severity level, and click
Apply.
NOTE
The severity level must be informational (4) in order to forward threshold alerts.