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

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Chapter

Alert and Event Monitoring

In this chapter

This chapter provides information about the alerts and events generated in Fabric Manager. The

Alerts tab within Fabric Manager provides a unified list of all of the alerts for any element you are

monitoring.

The Events tab provides a list of events for the selected element. Fabric events are displayed at the

fabric, switch, and switch group levels.

See the following topics for information about working with alerts and events:

•Alert monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

•Fabric event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

•Notification parameter configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Alert monitoring

Alerts are Fabric Manager-specific events that are stored in the Fabric Manager database. For

example, if a switch is rebooting while data collection is being performed, an alert is generated

indicating that the switch is unreachable. When that same switch has finished booting and data

collection occurs again, the previous switch unreachable alert is changed to indicate that it is

resolved.

Alerts are displayed in the Information panel, in the Alerts tab. All alerts, regardless of status,

remain in the Alerts tab until you delete them.

When a fabric is deleted from Fabric Manager, any alerts generated by the fabric or its member

switches are deleted from the Fabric Manager database as well.

Viewing all alerts for all monitored fabrics

1. Select the item for which you want to view alerts:

• For all monitored fabrics, click anywhere in the View panel outside a fabric cloud.

• For a specific fabric, select the fabric in the View panel.

• For a specific switch, select the switch in the View panel (Fabric View only).

2. Click the Alerts tab in the Information Panel.

NOTE

The SAN Alerts counts show the counts for all the discovered fabrics, not only for the monitored

fabrics.