HP StorageWorks 8/40 Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-100 - Page 53
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Activating Fabric Watch Chapter 6 In this chapter •Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch 31 Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch This section provides a brief overview of the available user interfaces for activating Fabric Watch. Further details about Fabric Watch operations for each interface are provided later in this guide. • Telnet session - Provides a command prompt where you can run Fabric OS commands to configure your switch monitoring settings. See "Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session" for instructions on how to activate Fabric Watch using a Telnet session. • Web Tools - Provides a graphical user interface that can be launched from an Internet browser, which allows you to launch a Fabric Watch window to configure switch monitoring settings. See "Activating Fabric Watch using Web Tools" on page 32 for instructions on how to activate Fabric Watch using Web Tools. • SNMP - Provides a receiver dedicated to monitoring the data center infracture; Brocade switches and directors enable monitoring of specific incidents and trigger an SNMP alert based on a user-defined threshold sending the alert to the dedicated SNMP trap receiver. Configuring SNMP threshold alerts for Fabric OS switches require using Web Toos to set up SNMP on the Fabric OS switch. See "Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP" on page 33 for instructions on how to set up SNMP. Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session 1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin. 2. Enter the following command, where switch represents the name or IP address of the switch: telnet switch After you enter this command, respond to the prompts for a username and password. 3. Enter the licenseShow command to determine if the Fabric Watch license is installed. switch:admin> licenseshow SedQyzdQbdTfeRzZ: Web license Zoning license bedR9dyyzzcfeSAW: Fabric license Scy9SbRQd9VdzATb: Fabric Watch license Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide 31 53-1001188-01