Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-1000601-02, June 2008)

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
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, “Fabric Watch Concepts,” 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, “Activating and Accessing 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 3, “Fabric Watch configuration,” describes how to configure Fabric Watch.
• Chapter 4, “Generating Fabric Watch Reports,” describes the reports available through Fabric
Watch and the methods of accessing each.
• Appendix A, “Default Threshold Values,” describes the Fabric Watch default threshold values
for all classes.
• Appendix B, “Basic Fabric Watch Configuration Guidelines,” describes some of the
modifications Fabric Watch users should consider when configuring their implementation.
• Appendix C, “Using Fabric Watch with Configuration Files,” describes the two methods of using
configuration files.
• Appendix D, “Port fencing types,” lists the set of port fencing types that are available with
Brocade Fabric OS version 6.1.
• The index points you to the exact pages on which specific information is located.