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

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What’s new in this document
The following Information was added:
• Virtual Fabric Support
• Ability to monitor switch health on 8 logical switches.
• Ability to configure thresholds and alarm matrix for ports belonging to a particular logical
switch.
• Port Movement Support
• Ability to monitor a port moving from one logical switch to another.
• Link Reset Monitoring
• New Link Reset area added to Port, E_Port, and F/FL class.
• Ability to monitor the number of link resets happening on a link.
• Port Fencing Support for Link Reset
• Fan Monitoring
• Event Manager (EM) now manages fan monitoring; switch status is calculated based on
fan status reported by EM.
• New Hardware Support
• DCX-4S Data Center Backbone
• 7500E Extension switch.
Information that was changed or removed:
• Fabric Watch no longer supports fan monitoring.
• Ability to display and customize the thresholds and alarm levels for FAN FRU is no longer
supported.
For further information, see the release notes.