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Fabric Watch User’s Guide

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Preface

Fabric Watch is an optionally licensed product, and requires a valid license key to function. It is
supported on the SilkWorm® 3800 series of switches running Brocades Fabric OS™ v3.0.

About This Guide

This guide provides the following information about Fabric Watch:

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Chapter 1
Introducing Fabric Watch

Provides an overview of Fabric Watch.

Chapter 2
Installing Fabric Watch

Provides instructions for installing Fabric Watch.

Chapter 3
Using Fabric Watch

Provides information about configuring and using Fabric
Watch.

Summary of Contents for Brocade Fabric Watch

Page 1: ...Publication Number 53 0000137 03 Brocade Fabric WatchTM User s Guide Version 3 0...

Page 2: ...trademarks or service marks of and are used to identify products or services of their respective owners NOTICE THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT SET FORTH ANY WARRANTY EXPR...

Page 3: ...Behavior Models 1 2 Range Threshold 1 2 Rising Falling Threshold 1 3 Change Monitor Threshold 1 4 Chapter 2 Installing Fabric Watch Installing through Telnet 2 1 Installing through Brocade Web Tools...

Page 4: ...inuous Events 3 9 Alarms 3 9 SNMP Trap 3 9 Error Log Entry 3 10 Locking the Port Log 3 10 RAN 3 10 Email Alert 3 10 Configuring Thresholds and Alarms 3 10 Threshold Values 3 11 Threshold Area Values 3...

Page 5: ...cade Fabric OS Procedures Guide Brocade Fabric OS Reference Brocade MIB Reference Brocade Web Tools User s Guide Brocade Zoning User s Guide Brocade QuickLoop User s Guide Brocade Fabric Watch User s...

Page 6: ...onfiguration Output from the supportShow telnet command Detailed description of the problem Troubleshooting steps already performed Getting Software Updates Contact your switch supplier for software u...

Page 7: ...based enterprise manager By modifying and uploading the Brocade Fabric WatchTM configuration file to the switch Brocade Fabric WatchTM monitors the following elements Fabric events such as topology r...

Page 8: ...from the following website http www brocade com support mibs_Rsh Threshold Behavior Models The behavior models for thresholds are Range Rising falling Change monitor Range Threshold A range threshold...

Page 9: ...ld A rising falling threshold tracks whether an element is on the desired side of a boundary It includes an upper and lower boundary and the buffer zones are always zero Events can be selected for tra...

Page 10: ...change monitor threshold generates events whenever a counter value changes regardless of the type of change This type of threshold is usually used to indicate state changes such as zoning changes Not...

Page 11: ...ollowing steps 1 Log onto the switch by telnet refer to Brocade Fabric OS User s Guide for details using an account that has administrative privileges 2 To determine whether a Fabric Watch license is...

Page 12: ...the Location Address field for example http 111 222 33 1 and press Enter Brocade Web ToolsTM launches displaying the Fabric View 2 Click the Admin button on the relevant switch panel The logon window...

Page 13: ...lsius RPM or unit of time Time base for counter used to compute rate of change for example events per minute Historical information about the last alarmed event generated User Interfaces Use either Br...

Page 14: ...eshold and alarm configurations by uploading the configuration file from the switch to the host editing it in a text editor then downloading the modified file back to the switch You can then ensure a...

Page 15: ...oundary Upper boundary Buffer size Alarm values Change Exceed Below Above In between Behavior type Classes Fabric and switch elements are organized into classes also known as Agents which are grouping...

Page 16: ...itoring license has been purchased and turned on Note The EE filter is preconfigured with either a telnet command or Web Tools at run time Filter Monitors the filter counter for a given port Provides...

Page 17: ...otocol error Monitors port protocol errors Invalid transmission word Monitors port invalid words Invalid CRC count Monitors port CRC errors Receive performance Monitors port receive performance Transm...

Page 18: ...nges Monitors optical F FL_port state changes F FL_Port Copper Link failure count Monitors link failure of each copper F FL_port Loss of synchronization count Monitors copper F FL_port sync loss Loss...

Page 19: ...eiver power Transmitter power Monitors GBIC transmitter power Current Monitors GBIC current ALPA CRC Counter Monitors all active ALPA devices on loop ports End to End CRC Counter Monitors CRC errors o...

Page 20: ...ed Fabric Watch may raise an event such as a below event then the threshold is hidden and disabled When an item is added the threshold is displayed and enabled and Fabric Watch may raise an event Even...

Page 21: ...above the upper boundary Accompanies a below or above event Changed Counter value has changed Alarms Each event can generate one or more alarms Fabric Watch supports the following types of alarms SNM...

Page 22: ...Thresholds and Alarms The configuration of thresholds and alarms can be divided into two categories threshold values and threshold area values Note Timebase changes to thresholds in Env and GBIC agent...

Page 23: ...the Transmit performance area Receive performance area Filter class Low boundary Minimum value An event is generated if the element value falls below this boundary High boundary Maximum value An even...

Page 24: ...3 12 Fabric Watch User s Guide Using Fabric Watch 3...

Page 25: ...e high boundary current value 5 Error s minute faulty 0x1003f2d0 tThad May 22 17 31 33 Error FW ABOVE 3 fopportSync003 3 is above high boundary current value 3 Error s minute faulty 0x1003f2d0 tThad M...

Page 26: ...s envFan000 envFan002 Example 2 class name gbic area name Temp element index 001 00x threshold name is gbicTemp001 gbicTemp00x Table A 1 Fabric Watch Threshold Class Area Abbreviation Table Class name...

Page 27: ...s State Loss of Sync Sync TX Performance TXPerf Invalid Words Words Fabric fabric Domain ID DI E port down ED Fabric login FL Fabric QL FQ Reconfigure FR GBIC change GS Segmentation SC Zoning change Z...

Page 28: ...A 4 Fabric Watch User s Guide Example Error Message A...

Page 29: ...ric attachment See also Topology ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode a transport used for transmitting data over LANs or WANs that transmit fixed length units o...

Page 30: ...d switch elements Brocade ISL TrunkingTM A Brocade feature that enables distribution of traffic over the combined bandwidth of up to four ISLs between adjacent switches while preserving in order deliv...

Page 31: ...nondelivery Class F Connectionless service for control traffic between switches with notification of delivery or nondelivery of data between the E_Ports Class of Service A specified set of delivery ch...

Page 32: ...also EE_Credit Error As applies to fibre channel a missing or corrupted frame time out loss of synchronization or loss of signal link errors See also Loop Failure Exchange The highest level fibre cha...

Page 33: ...ed on site FS Fibre Channel Service a service that is defined by fibre channel standards and exists at a well known address For example the Simple Name Server is a fibre channel service See also FSP F...

Page 34: ...or more controllers See also RAID K28 5 A special 10 bit character used to indicate the beginning of a transmission word that performs fibre channel control and signaling functions The first seven bi...

Page 35: ...t to point connection See also NL_Port Nx_Port Name Server Frequently used to indicate Simple Name Server See also SNS NL_Port Node Loop Port a node port that has arbitrated loop capabilities Used to...

Page 36: ...ic can function within either a public or a private loop and can communicate with either private or public NL_Ports Public Device A device that supports arbitrated loop protocol can interpret 8 bit ad...

Page 37: ...tocol and is controlled by software Switch Name The arbitrary name assigned to a switch Switch Port A port on a switch Switch ports can be E_Ports F_Ports or FL_Ports SWL Short Wavelength a type of fi...

Page 38: ...for SCSI status before initiating ULP recovery Unicast The transmission of data from a single source to a single destination See also Broadcast Multicast Well known Address As pertaining to fibre cha...

Page 39: ...ort 3 5 Environmental 3 5 F FL_Port copper 3 6 F FL_Port optical 3 6 Fabric 3 4 GBIC FINISAR Smart GBIC 3 7 Port 3 5 configuring modifying the configuration file 3 2 thresholds and alarms 3 10 continu...

Page 40: ...ing to access Fabric Watch 3 2 SNMP trap 3 9 support technical iv supportShow telnet command iv T technical support iv telnet accessing Fabric Watch by 3 2 installing by 2 1 telnet commands supportSho...

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