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Fabric Watch Concepts Chapter 1 This chapter contains the following sections: • "Fabric Watch Overview," next • "Introduction to Fabric Health" on page 1-3 • "Fabric Watch Components" on page 1-3 • "Configuring Events" on page 1-12 • "Port Persistence" on page 1-20 • "Notification Methods" on page 1-20 • "Switch Policies" on page 1-23 • "Interpreting Event Messages" on page 1-23 Fabric Watch Overview Fabric Watch is an optional storage area network (SAN) health monitor software for Brocade SilkWorm switches running Fabric OS v2.2 or higher. It enables each switch to constantly monitor its SAN fabric for potential faults and to automatically alert you to problems long before they become costly failures. Fabric Watch tracks a variety of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, GBICs, and environmental parameters enables early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement. You can select custom fabric elements and alert thresholds or choose from a selection of preconfigured settings. You can also easily integrate Fabric Watch with enterprise systems management solutions. By implementing Fabric Watch, you can rapidly improve SAN availability and performance without installing new software or system administration tools. For a growing number of organizations, SAN fabrics are a mission-critical part of their systems architecture. These fabrics can include hundreds of elements, such as hosts, storage devices, switches, and interswitch links (ISLs). An instrumentation solution for SANs delivers optimal value by tracking a wide spectrum of fabric events. For instance, 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 "smart" GBICs/SFPs. • Performance information for AL_PA, and end-to-end metrics. Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide 1-1 Publication Number: 53-1000243-01

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Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
1-1
Publication Number: 53-1000243-01
Chapter
1
Fabric Watch Concepts
This chapter contains the following sections:
•
“Fabric Watch Overview,”
next
•
“Introduction to Fabric Health”
on page 1-3
•
“Fabric Watch Components”
on page 1-3
•
“Configuring Events”
on page 1-12
•
“Port Persistence”
on page 1-20
•
“Notification Methods”
on page 1-20
•
“Switch Policies”
on page 1-23
•
“Interpreting Event Messages”
on page 1-23
Fabric Watch Overview
Fabric Watch is an optional storage area network (SAN) health monitor software for Brocade SilkWorm
switches running Fabric OS v2.2 or higher. It enables each switch to constantly monitor its SAN fabric
for potential faults and to automatically alert you to problems long before they become costly failures.
Fabric Watch tracks a variety of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide
events, ports, GBICs, and environmental parameters enables early fault detection and isolation as well
as performance measurement. You can select custom fabric elements and alert thresholds or choose
from a selection of preconfigured settings. You can also easily integrate Fabric Watch with enterprise
systems management solutions.
By implementing Fabric Watch, you can rapidly improve SAN availability and performance without
installing new software or system administration tools.
For a growing number of organizations, SAN fabrics are a mission-critical part of their systems
architecture. These fabrics can include hundreds of elements, such as hosts, storage devices, switches,
and interswitch links (ISLs). An instrumentation solution for SANs delivers optimal value by tracking a
wide spectrum of fabric events. For instance, 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 “smart” GBICs/SFPs.
•
Performance information for AL_PA, and end-to-end metrics.