Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide (53-0000194-01, November 2006)

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 13-1

Publication Number: 53-0000194-01

Chapter

Administering Fabric Watch

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Introduction to Fabric Watch,” next

• “Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools” on page 13-2

• “Configuring Fabric Watch Thresholds” on page 13-3

• “Configuring Alarms for FRUs” on page 13-7

• “Displaying Fabric Watch Alarm Information” on page 13-7

• “Configuring Email Notifications” on page 13-9

Introduction to Fabric Watch

Fabric Watch is a Brocade optionally licensed feature that monitors the performance and status of

switches and can automatically alert you when problems arise, before they become costly failures.

Fabric Watch tracks a number 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 allows you 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.

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

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The Fabric Watch module is read-only if you do not own the switch. Owning ports on a switch is not

enough to enable Fabric Watch on that switch.

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