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

3-20 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
Publication Number: 53-1000243-01
Configuring Switch Status Policy
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The following prompt displays:
Enter the e-mail address of the person responsible for the specific class of alerts.
Fabric Watch uses the default value, located between the brackets in the prompt, as the current e-
mail address for the class. A value of NONE indicates that no e-mail address has been provided.
The system displays a confirmation message and returns to the main fwMailCfg menu.
Quit
Enter 6 in the fwMailCfg menu (shown in Figure 3-11) to exit the menu.
Configuring Switch Status Policy
The tasks for configuring a switch status policy are:
“Step 1: Plan and Define Your Switch Status Policy” on page 3-21
“Step 2: Implement Your Switch Status Policy” on page 3-22
“Step 3: View Your Switch Status Policy” on page 3-22
Your switch status policy monitors the overall status of a switch based on several contributing
parameters. The policy parameter values determine how many failed or faulty units of each contributor
are allowed before triggering a status change in the switch from Healthy to Marginal or Down. While
some users find that the default settings suit their needs, others need to configure a switch status policy
due to unpredictable power outages, temperature changes, or redundancy requirements, among other
conditions.
You can configure your switch status policy to define the health of your switch. Generally speaking,
Fabric Watch defines the health of your switch using the following terms:
• Healthy
Every contributor is working and therefore healthy, or when the contributing parameter is not being
tracked for switch status; when the switch status policy parameter is zero.
• Marginal
One or more components are triggering a Warning alarm.
• Down
One or more contributors have failed.
Status events are integrated into Brocade Web Tools and Fabric Manager so that if the overall status of
your switch is Healthy, the switch color is green. If the overall switch status is Marginal, then the switch
color is yellow. Finally, if the overall switch status is Down, the switch color is red. The overall status is
calculated based on the most severe status of all contributors.
Mail To: [NONE]
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E-mail addresses must not exceed 128 characters.
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Policy parameters with a value of zero are not considered when calculating the switch status.