Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001188-01, April 2009)
8 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
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Configuration decisions
Configuration decisions
Before you begin an implementation, make some decisions surrounding the following major
configuration tasks.
Monitoring
Do you want to monitor all class areas, or implement the monitoring in incremental stages? Refer
to Chapter 3, “Fabric Watch components,” for a description of all configurable Fabric Watch classes
and areas.
For example:
• Step 1: Monitor Fabric class areas
• Domain ID changes
• Fabric logins
• Fabric reconfiguration
• Loss of E_Port
• Segmentation changes
• SFP state changes
• Zoning changes
• Step 2: Monitor Port class areas:
• Invalid CRCs
• Invalid Transmission Words
• Link Failure Count
• Loss of Signal Count
• Loss of Sync Count
• Packet Loss
• Primitive Sequence Protocol Error
• Receive (RX) Performance
• Step 3: Monitor FRU class areas:
• Slot
• Power supply
• Fan
• WWN