Brocade Communications Systems Fabric Watch, Administrator'S Manual

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Chapter
5
Fabric Watch Configuration
In this chapter
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Fabric Watch configuration tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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E-mail notification configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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 23.
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 31.
Configure Fabric Watch e-mail alerts for all
classes. fwMailCfg “E-mail notification configuration” on
page 31.
Configure and show alarms filtering for
Fabric Watch for all classes. fwAlarmsFilterSet
fwAlarmsFilterShow “Configuring alarm notifications” on
page 34.
Set the following parameters for SFP,
Fabric, Security, and Performance
monitoring:
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Class
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Area type
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Time base
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Threshold level
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Trigger (boundary level)
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Action (notification type)
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Buffer
thConfig Chapter 6, “Fabric, Security, SFP, and
Performance Monitoring”
.
Enable or disable monitoring for the 10
Gbps, 16 Gbps, and QSFP SFPs. thMonitor “Fabric, Security, SFP, and
Performance Monitoring”
on page 37