Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide (53-1000243-01, November 2006)

3-10 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide

Publication Number: 53-1000243-01

Configuring Fabric Watch Thresholds

Table 3-8 describes the event behavior of each element in the Threshold Boundary menu.

Table 3-8 Element Listing Information - Threshold Boundary Menu

Use the following commands to switch between custom and default values:

• fwSetToCustom

Sets the boundary and alarm level to custom

• fwSetToDefault

Restores the boundary and alarm level to the default

See Chapter 1, “Fabric Watch Concepts” for details about the event setting table and notification

methods for each of the possible event settings.

For details about advanced configuration menu options, see Table 3-10 on page 3-13.

Step 3: Configure Alarms

Alarms act as a signal or alert that notifies you when a threshold has been crossed. You can configure the

following types of notification settings for Fabric Watch:

• Triggered

A triggered behavior type signals you once, after a threshold has been crossed. Triggered is the

default behavior type signal for all class areas.

• Continuous

A continuous behavior type signals you continuously after a threshold has been crossed.

See “Fabric Watch Alarm Behavior” in Chapter 1, “Fabric Watch Concepts” for details about alarm

behavior, including a description of the threshold states that trigger alarms.

Figure 3-9 shows how to change the above alarm for the RXPerformance class. Here, a value of 19 is

specified. The value is the sum of the alarm matrix values: in this case EmailAlert-16, SnmpTrap-2, and

Errlog-1 (16+2+1=19).

To calculate the values to specify in your alarms:

1. Add the numbers beside each state (for the states you want to include). The values for the states are:

• Errlog - 1

• SnmpTrap - 2

• PortLogLock - 4

• RapiTrap - 8

• EmailAlert - 16

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Default The Fabric OS default settings

Custom User-defined settings