Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001770-01, June 2010)

Chapter

Fabric Watch Configuration

In this chapter

•Fabric Watch configuration tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

•Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

•E-mail notification configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

•Notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Fabric Watch configuration tasks

Table 2 lists the Fabric Watch commands you can use to create custom threshold configurations.

For complete information about any of these commands, refer to the Fabric OS Command

Reference Manual.

TABLE 2 Fabric Watch configuration tasks

Configuration task Command Location of procedure

Initialize all Fabric Watch classes fwClassInit “Activating Fabric Watch using a

Telnet session” on page 27.

Set the boundary and alarm level to

custom or default.

Note: These command resets all

thresholds for all classes and cannot be

configured on individual ports.

fwSetToCustom

fwSetToDefault

“Setting Fabric Watch custom and

default values” on page 35.

Configures Fabric Watch e-mail alerts for

all classes.

fwMailCfg “E-mail notification configuration” on

page 35.

Configures and shows alarms filtering for

Fabric Watch for all classes.

fwAlarmsFilterSet

fwAlarmsFilterShow

“Configuring alarm notifications” on

page 39.

Set the following parameters for SFP,

Fabric, Security, and Performance

monitoring:

• Class

• Area type

• Time base

• Threshold level

• Trigger (boundary level)

• Action (notification type)

• Buffer

thConfig Chapter 6, “Fabric, Security, SFP, and

Performance Monitoring”.