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Enter the email address of the person responsible for the specific class of alerts.

Fabric Watch uses the default value, located between the brackets in the prompt, as the current email

address for the class. A value of NONE indicates that no email address has been provided.

NOTE:

Email addresses must not exceed 128 characters.

The system displays a confirmation message and returns to the main fwMailCfg menu.

6:

Quit

Enter

6

in the fwMailCfg menu (shown in

Figure

) to exit the menu.

Configuring switch status policy

The tasks for configuring a switch status policy are:

•

”

Step 1: Plan and define your switch status policy

” on page 49

•

”

Step 2: Implement your switch status policy

” on page 50

•

”

Step 3: View your switch status policy

” on page 50

Your switch status policy monitors the overall status of a switch based on several contributing parameters.

The policy parameter values determine how many failed or faulty units of each contributor are allowed

before triggering a status change in the switch from Healthy to Marginal or Down. While some users find

that the default settings suit their needs, others need to configure a switch status policy due to

unpredictable power outages, temperature changes, or redundancy requirements, among other conditions.

You can configure your switch status policy to define the health of your switch. Generally speaking, Fabric

Watch defines the health of your switch using the following terms:

•

Healthy

Every contributor is working and therefore healthy.

•

Marginal

One or more components are triggering a Warning alarm.

•

Down

One or more contributors have failed.

Status events are integrated into Advanced Web Tools and the Fabric Manager option so that if the overall

status of your switch is Healthy, the switch color is green. If the overall switch status is Marginal, then the

switch color is yellow. Finally, if the overall switch status is Down, the switch color is red. The overall status

is calculated based on the most severe status of all contributors.

See the

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x advanced web tools administrator guide

for more details about

configuring status events using Web Tools.

Step 1: Plan and define your switch status policy

Before entering the

switchStatusPolicySet

command, plan your switch status policy. How many

fans must fail before you consider a switch Marginal? Look at the needs of your system along with the

factors that affect its monitors.

Table 16

lists the monitors in a switch and identifies the factors that affect

their health. Note that not all switches use the monitors listed in

Table 16

.

Table 16

Switch status policy monitor health factors

Monitor

Health factors

Power Supplies

Power supply thresholds, absent or failed power supply.

For the SAN Director 2/128, can also occur when Power

Supplies are not in the correct slot for redundancy.

Temperatures

Temperature thresholds, faulty temperature sensors.

Section	Page
Contents	3
Intended audience	7
Related documentation	7
Document conventions and symbols	8
Table 1 Document conventions	8
HP technical support	9
HP-authorized reseller	9
Helpful web sites	9
An introduction to Fabric Watch	11
Fabric Watch overview	11
Introduction to fabric health	12
Fabric Watch concepts	13
Fabric watch components	13
Classes	13
Table 2 Fabric Watch classes	13
Areas	14
Environment class areas	14
Table 3 Environment class areas	14
Fabric class areas	15
Table 4 Fabric class sreas	15
FRU class areas	15
Table 5 FRU class areas	15
Performance monitor class areas	16
Table 6 Performance monitor class areas	16
Port class areas	16
Table 7 Port class areas	16
Resource class area	17
Table 8 Resource class area	17
Security class areas	17
Table 9 Security class areas	17
SFP class areas	18
Table 10 SFP class areas	18
Elements	19
Configuring events	19
Event behavior types	19
Continuous event behavior	19
Triggered event behavior	20
Data values	20
Threshold values	20
High and low thresholds	20
Buffer values	20
Figure 1 Threshold monitoring	21
Figure 2 A buffered data region	21
Time bases	21
Setting time base to none	21
Figure 3 Time base set to none	21
Specifying a time base	22
Figure 4 Event trigger	22
Figure 5 Example without an event	23
Event settings	23
Above event triggers	23
Figure 6 Above event trigger with buffer zone	23
Below event trigger	24
Changed event trigger	24
Figure 7 Changed threshold	24
In-Between triggers	24
Figure 8 In-Between trigger	24
Port persistence	25
Notification methods	25
Switch event (error) log entry	25
SNMP trap	25
RAPITrap	26
Port log lock	26
Email alert	26
Assigning notification methods	26
Table 11 Numerical values of notification methods	26
Switch policies	27
Interpreting event messages	27
Activating and accessing Fabric Watch	29
Activating Fabric Watch	29
Activating with telnet	29
Activating with Advanced Web Tools	29
Accessing Fabric Watch	29
Telnet	30
Advanced Web Tools	30
SNMP-Based enterprise managers	30
Configuration file	32
Configuring Fabric Watch	33
Configuring Fabric Watch thresholds	33
Step 1: Select the class and area to configure	33
Table 12 Element listing information - RXPerformance area menu	34
Step 2: Configure thresholds	35
1. refresh	35
2. disable a threshold	35
Figure 9 Disabling a threshold	36
3. enable a threshold	36
4. advanced configuration	37
Table 13 Element listing information - Advanced Configuration Menu	38
Table 14 Element listing information - threshold boundary menu	40
Step 3: Configure alarms	41
How to calculate values for alarms	41
Figure 10 Changing the threshold alarm level	43
Figure 11 Applying threshold alarm changes	43
Table 15 Advanced configuration options	44
Step 4: Disable and enable thresholds by port (optional)	45
Configuring notifications	46
Configuring alarm notifications	46
Configuring SNMP notifications	46
Configuring port log lock actions	46
Configuring email notifications	47
Figure 12 fwMailcfg Menu	47
1: Show Mail configuration information	47
Figure 13 Config show menu	47
Configuring switch status policy	49
Step 1: Plan and define your switch status policy	49
Table 16 Switch status policy monitor health factors	49
Step 2: Implement your switch status policy	50
Step 3: View your switch status policy	50
Configuring FRUs	50
Figure 14 fwFruCfg configuration	51
Configuring Fabric Watch using Web Tools	51
Configuring Fabric Watch using SNMP	51
Figure 15 Configuring Fabric Watch using SNMP	52
Figure 16 Enabling Fabric Watch Traps in SNMP	52
Figure 17 Configuring SNMP management host IP address	53
Figure 18 Example OID tree	54
Figure 19 Example swFwName screen	54
Default threshold values	57
Environment class	57
Table 17 Environment class threshold defaults	58
Fabric class	60
Table 18 Fabric Class threshold defaults	60
Performance monitor class	61
Table 19 AL_PA performance monitor class threshold defaults	61
Table 20 Customer-Defined performance monitor class threshold defaults	61
Table 21 End-to-End performance monitor class threshold defaults	62
Port class	62
Table 22 Port Class threshold defaults	62
Table 23 E-Port class threshold defaults	63
Table 24 F/FL-Port class threshold defaults	64
Resource class	65
Table 25 Resource class threshold defaults	65
Security class	66
Table 26 Security class threshold defaults	66
SFP class	68
Table 27 SFP Class Threshold Defaults	68
Basic Fabric Watch configuration guidelines	69
Using Fabric Watch with configuration files	71
Configuration files	71

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