Dell PowerConnect Brocade M6505 Brocade 7.1.0 Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Page 177
Administering Fabric Watch, In this Fabric Watch overview
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Chapter Administering Fabric Watch 12 In this chapter •Fabric Watch overview 149 Fabric Watch overview Fabric Watch is an optional Brocade licensed feature that monitors the performance and status of switches. Fabric Watch can automatically alert you when problems arise, before they become costly failures. NOTE If you do not own the switch, Fabric Watch is view-only. Owning ports on a switch is not enough to enable Fabric Watch on that switch. To use Fabric Watch, you must have the Fabric Watch license installed on the switch. Fabric Watch tracks a number of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. For example, Fabric Watch monitors the following: • Fabric resources, including fabric reconfigurations, zoning changes, new logins, domain ID changes, E-Port failures, and segmentation changes • Switch environmental functions, such as temperature, flash , CPU and memory usage, along with security violations. • Port state transitions, errors, and traffic information for multiple port classes as well as operational values for supported models of Finisar "Smart" GBICs/SFPs. Fabric Watch lets you define how often to measure each switch and fabric element and allows you to specify notification thresholds. Whenever fabric elements exceed these thresholds, Fabric Watch automatically provides notification using several methods, including e-mail messages, SNMP traps, and log entries. For detailed information regarding Fabric Watch, refer to the Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide. Web Tools Administrator's Guide 149 53-1002756-01