HP StorageWorks 8/40 Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.3.0 (53-100 - Page 35
Fabric Watch components, In this Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements, Classes
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Fabric Watch components Chapter 3 In this chapter •Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements 11 •Classes 11 •Areas 13 •Elements 18 Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements Fabric Watch uses a hierarchical organization to track the network device information it monitors. There is a class, area, and element associated with every monitored behavior. Classes are the highest level in the system, subdivided into one or more areas. Areas contain one or more elements. The following sections explain this hierarchy and its application within Fabric Watch. Classes Classes are high-level categories of elements. Classes are intentionally wide groupings of similar fabric devices or fabric data. Examples of classes include the following: • Port, which includes all physical ports on a switch. • Security, which includes information related to unauthorized login attempts. • Environment, which contains information related to the internal temperature and supplied power. In some cases, classes are divided into subclasses. This additional level in the hierarchy increases the flexibility of setting monitoring thresholds. You can use subclasses to add additional event monitoring to fabric objects that meet the requirements of a subclass. For example, ports connected to another switch can be monitored using both the Port class and E_Port subclass. You can configure general port monitoring using the Port class and monitoring specific to a type of port using the E_Port class. Ports connected to another switch can trigger events based on either of these configurations. Ports that are not connected to another switch are not affected by the additional monitoring configured into the E_Port class. Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide 11 53-1001342-01