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

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Areas

NOTE

Physical link error counters and statistics (such as link failure count, loss of signal count, and RX and

TX performance percentages) are not applicable to VE_Ports.

Resource class area

Table 7 describes the Product Name resource class area.

Security class areas

Table 8 lists Product Name areas in the security class and describes what each area indicates. For

details on each area..

State Changes The state of the port has changed for one of the following reasons:

• The port has gone offline.

• The port has come online.

• The port is testing.

• The port is faulty.

• The port has become an E_Port, EX_Port, VE_Port, or VEX_Port.

• The port has become an F/FL_Port.

• The port has segmented.

• The port has become a trunk port.

Transmit (TX) Performance The percentage of maximum bandwidth consumed in packet transmissions.

Utilization The percent of utilization for the port at the time of the last poll.

Link Reset The ports on which link resets exceed the specified or given threshold value.

TABLE 7 Resource class area

Area Description

Flash Monitor Monitors the compact flash space available by calculating the percentage of flash space

consumed and comparing it with the configured high threshold value.

TABLE 8 Security class areas

Area Indicates

API Violation An API access request reaches a secure switch from an unauthorized IP address.

DCC Violation An unauthorized device attempts to log in to a secure fabric.

Front Panel Violation A secure switch detects unauthorized front panel access.

HTTP Violation A browser access request reaches a secure switch from an unauthorized IP address.

Illegal Command Commands permitted only to the primary Fibre Channel Switch (FCS) are executed on

another switch.

Incompatible DB Secure switches with different version stamps have been detected.

Invalid Certificates Invalid certificates which represent an attempted security breach.

Invalid Signatures Invalid signatures which occur when a switch cannot verify the signature of a packet.

and rejects the packet.

TABLE 6 Port class areas (Continued)

Area Indicates