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

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
This document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “About Fabric Watch,” provides an introduction to Fabric Watch and the benefits of
its use. It also defines concepts that are useful in Fabric Watch configuration.
• Chapter 2, “Fabric Watch Best Practices” describes some of the modifications Fabric Watch
users should consider when configuring their implementation.
• Chapter 3, “Fabric Watch components,” describes the components (class, area, and element)
associated with every monitored behavior.
• Chapter 4, “Fabric Watch thresholds,” explains the concept of high and low thresholds and
buffer values and provides examples of various threshold settings.
• Chapter 5, “Notification methods,” describes the various notification methods, not all of which
can be applied to all of the classes. The methods include switch event (error) log, SNMP traps,
RAPI trap, port log lock, and e-mail alert.
• Chapter 6, “Activating Fabric Watch,” describes the Fabric Watch requirements, provides an
overview of the interfaces, and explains the methods of accessing Fabric Watch through each
interface.
• Chapter 7, “Fabric Watch default settings,” lists the default settings for all the classes which
you can use to rapidly deploy and monitor your fabric.
• Chapter 8, “Fabric Watch Configurations,” describes how to configure thresholds and port
fencing (optional) and includes advanced configuration options.
• Chapter 9, “Fabric Watch Reports,” describes the reports available through Fabric Watch and
the methods of accessing each.
• Appendix A, “Fabric Watch Commands” displays Fabric Watch commands. Many of these
commands are used in advanced configuration tasks.