Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 16-1

Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP

Chapter

Fabric Watch

Fabric Watch is an optional, licensed feature that monitors the performance and status of switches and

can automatically alert you when problems arise. Fabric Watch tracks a variety of SAN fabric elements,

events, and counters. For example, Fabric Watch monitors:

• Fabric resources, including fabric reconfigurations, zoning changes, and new logins.

• Switch environmental functions such as temperature, power supply, and fan status, along with

security violations.

• Port state transitions, errors, and traffic information for multiple port classes as well as operational

values for supported models of Finisar “Smart” GBICs/SFPs.

• Performance information for AL_PA, end-to-end, and SCSI command metrics.

Fabric Watch lets you define how often to measure each switch and fabric element and to specify

notification thresholds. Whenever fabric elements exceed these thresholds, Fabric Watch automatically

provides notification using several methods, including email messages, SNMP traps, and log entries.

This chapter provides information about using Fabric Watch. See the following sections:

• “Launching Fabric Watch” on page 16-1

• “Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools” on page 16-2

For more detailed information about Fabric Watch, see the Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide.

Launching Fabric Watch

Fabric Manager launches Brocade Web Tools to configure Fabric Watch. You cannot access the Fabric

Watch module if the switch does not have a Fabric Watch license or if the switch is unreachable.

To access Fabric Watch

1. Right-click a switch and select Fabric Watch from the context menu.

If the switch user name and password does not exist or is invalid, you are prompted to enter the

correct user name and password.

Web Tools launches and displays the Fabric Watch module, as shown in Figure 16-1 on page 16-2.

Note

To use the Fabric Watch feature, you must have a Fabric Watch license installed on your switch.