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

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Change Management Generated only if you have elected to receive alerts through the Change Management
feature in Fabric Manager. Any alerts generated on switches or fabrics as defined in
your Change Management profile are also displayed in the Alerts tab. Note the
following characteristics:
• If an alert is triggered by a Change Management profile, the alert status is
updated each time a scheduled Change Management check is run. If there is no
change in the alert status, the original alert is updated continuously in the Last
Occurrence column of the Alerts tab with the latest unreachable time until the
alert is resolved.
• If you change the baseline Change Management profile that is configured to
trigger alerts, any alerts previously triggered by that defined baseline profile
remain in the Alerts tab but the status is changed from No to Yes in the Resolved
column. Also, the reason for the status change is updated in the Description
column to indicate that it is resolved because of a baseline change.
See Chapter 9, “Change Management” for additional information about the types of
trigger alerts you can set using Change Management profiles.
supportSave and
supportShow capture
Generated when Fabric Manager is trying to capture supportSave or supportShow
information.
• If the operation succeeds, an info alert is displayed. The alert contains the
location of the log files on the FTP server.
• If the operation fails, an error alert is displayed. The alert contains the reason for
the failure (for example, if the FTP server does not have enough space to hold the
logs).
FDMI Generated when the FDMI data cannot be collected. If FDMI data is collected
successfully after failing the previous time, an alert is also generated.
There must be at least one FDMI-capable switch (a switch running Fabric OS v3.2.0 or
later) in the fabric for FDMI information to be collected and for FDMI failure alerts to be
generated.
iSCSI data collection Generated when iSCSI data collection fails because of invalid user credentials. For
successful iSCSI data collection, all iSCSI-capable switches (switches with an
FC4-16IP port blade) must have user credentials in the Fabric Manager repository.
Password expiration or
lockout
Generated when a password expires or is about to expire, or when a user account is
locked out due to too many unsuccessful login attempts.
Note the following characteristics:
• If the password expiry warning period is reached, a switch-level warning alert is
displayed. The alert is resolved when either the password expires or when the
password is changed and the user authenticates to that switch from Fabric
Manager.
• If the password expires, a switch-level critical alert is displayed. The alert is
resolved when the password is changed and the user authenticates to that
switch from Fabric Manager.
• If the user account is locked out, then a switch-level critical alert is displayed. The
alert is resolved when the account is unlocked.
TABLE 9 Alert types (Continued)
Type of alert Description