HP StorageWorks 2/16V Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-1000019 - Page 149

Change Management Chapter 9 The change management feature allows you to monitor changes in a fabric and generate Extensible Markup Language (XML) reports listing the changes. The change management feature is available to users with physical fabric access. To use the change management feature, you must set up profiles defining which elements to monitor, when to monitor them, and what to do when changes occur to those elements. The notification configuration defines what to do when changes occur to the selected elements. When you set up the profiles, you must select at least one element to monitor. You do not have to define schedules or notification; however, if you do not define a schedule, there is no automated checking, and if you do not define notifications, there are no alerts or email notifications. The profiles are saved on the server database. After a profile is defined and saved, any user on the same server can view, edit, clone, or delete it. You can apply a single profile to multiple fabrics, and one fabric can have multiple profiles for different monitoring purposes simultaneously. To use the change management feature, you should follow these basic steps: 1. Configure notification parameters for all users on the server (see "Configuring Notification Parameters" on page 7-13). 2. Create a change management profile defining which elements to monitor for changes (see "Creating a Profile" on page 9-4). 3. Optional: Compare subsequent snapshots to the baseline snapshot to monitor changes to the elements over defined time frames (see "Comparing Snapshots" on page 9-9). 4. Optional: Create multiple profiles to monitor different sets of elements. Snapshots are associated with a single profile however, and a snapshot based on Profile X cannot be compared to a snapshot based on Profile Y. See the following sections for information about setting up, creating, and working with change management profiles, and also working with the subsequent change reports using snapshots: • "Using Change Management Profiles," • "Using Snapshots and Change Reports" on page 9-6 Using Change Management Profiles You create a change management profile so you can monitor changes to fabric elements and provide email notification or alerts automatically when change occurs. Table 9-1 on page 9-2 lists the fabric elements you can monitor, and Table 9-2 on page 9-3 describes known limitations working with the change management feature. Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide 9-1 Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP