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53-1003142-0127 June 2014Fabric WatchAdministrators GuideSupporting Fabric OS v7.3.0

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FIGURE 7 Fabric Watch WindowThe Fabric Watch Explorer pane on the left side of the window displays the available classes. Notall classes are available

Fabric Watch threshold configuration using Web ToolsThe Threshold Configuration tab enables you to configure event conditions. From this tab, youconfi

Configuring threshold alarmsAfter you update the threshold information, use the Alarm Configuration subtab to customize thenotification settings for e

1. Open the Fabric Watch window.2. In the Fabric Watch Explorer pane, select a class.You can set alarms for information on a switch only if that infor

Configuring alarm filters using Web ToolsThe Fabric Watch window provides GUI support for the CLI command fwalarmsfilterset. This optionis used to con

NOTEFor the FRU class, only the Name, State, and Time columns are displayed. In addition, if the FRU areais Fan, the Name column refers to either a fa

5. In the Domain Name field, enter the domain name (between 4 and 32 characters).6. Click Apply.Enabling the e-mail alertYou can set a different e-mai

Fabric Watch Reports● Fabric Watch reports ...107● Sw

Switch Availability Monitor reportThe Switch Availability Monitor (SAM) report lets you see the uptime and downtime for each port. Italso enables you

• Current health of each port, based on the currently configured policy settings.• High-level state of the switch, the power supplies, and temperature

About This Document● Supported hardware and software... 11● What's

Down MarginalPowerSupplies 2 1Temperatures 2 1Fans 2 1Flash

215 G HEALTHY 000:00 - - - - - - - - - - - - -216 VE HEALTHY 061:19 - - - - -

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IndexAabove event triggers 26access gateway mode, restrictions in Fabric Watch 22action configuration guidelines 15activating Fabric Watchusing a Teln

EE_Port default settings 72E_Port setting guidelines 71e-mail, testing a message 44e-mail alerthow to disable 44how to enable 44setting recipient e-ma

Iinterface types 35invalid CRC area, configuring 70IP address, setting for notification 45LlicenseAdd key command 35locked port log notification type

recommended settings 62settings, customizing 14setting time base 27SFPsupport for 10 Gbps and 16 Gbps 17SFP classmonitoring guidelines 52SFP monitorin

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Fabric Watch● Fabric health... 13● Fab

Fabric Watch provides customizable monitoring thresholds. You can configure Fabric Watch to providenotification before problems arise, such as reporti

Alert configurationWhen Fabric Watch is improperly configured, a large number of error messages can be sent over ashort period of time, making it diff

NOTEFor each class area, there are setting guidelines and recommendations for whether you shouldleave the setting at the default or change the setting

• EE (end-to-end) Performance Monitor - Monitors RX and TX performance between two devices.• Filter Performance Monitor - Measures the number of frame

Port persistenceThe data collected in port monitoring can vary a great deal over short time periods. Therefore, the portcan become a source of frequen

Refer to Fabric Watch reports on page 107 for information on viewing the current switch policies usingthe Switch Status Policy report.Logical switch s

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Fabric Watch event settingsFabric Watch uses two types of settings: factory default settings and user-defined custom settings.• Factory default settin

SNMP agent is configured to a specific error message level, error messages at that level trigger SNMPtraps.An SNMP trap forwards the following informa

changes. These events include login failures, zone configuration changes, firmware downloads, andother configuration changes; in other words any criti

The following classes are not supported in Access Gateway mode:• Fabric• Security• E_Port (Port subclass)• VE_Port (Port subclass)Fabric WatchFabric W

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Fabric Watch Thresholds● Threshold values...

FIGURE 1 In-between buffer valuesThreshold triggersThis section describes how Fabric Watch compares a fabric element’s data value against a thresholdv

FIGURE 2 Above event trigger with buffer zoneBelow event triggerThe Below event trigger generates an event when a data value becomes less than the low

The figure below shows a high limit of 65° Celsius placed on a counter measuring temperature. Duringeach sample period, Fabric Watch measures the temp

FIGURE 4 Event triggerFabric Watch alarm behaviorFabric Watch alarm behavior depends on the threshold states associated with the Above, Below andChang

ContentsPreface...7D

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Fabric Watch Threshold Components● Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements... 31Fabr

The Resource class and Environment class areas and actions are configured using the sysMonitorcommand. The FRU class actions are configured using the

Fabric Watch classes (Continued)TABLE 1 Class DescriptionPerformanceMonitorServes as a tuning tool. The Performance Monitor class groups areas that

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Fabric Watch Activation● Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch...35● Activa

4. Enter the license key with the licenseAdd key command, where key is the Fabric Watch licensekey. License keys are case-sensitive, so type the licen

In the above figure, the MIB browser populated the left side of the window with a MIB tree that youcan navigate.4. Open Web Tools and select Tasks >

9. Enter the IP address for the switch in the Host field in the MIB browser. Enter the community stringin the Community field. To perform set operatio

1. Open the Web browser and type the IP address of the device in the Address field. For example,http://10.77.77.77 or https://10.77.77.772. Press Ente

Fabric Watch Thresholds... 25Threshold values...

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Fabric Watch Configuration● Fabric Watch configuration tasks... 41● S

Fabric Watch configuration tasks (Continued)TABLE 2 Configuration task Command Location of procedureSet the following parameters for portmonitoring:

Setting Fabric Watch custom and default valuesUse the following commands to switch between custom and default values. These commands reset allthreshol

Fabric Watch displays e-mail alert information such as:Mail Recipient Information ____________________________________ Email Alert

Setting the recipient e-mail address for an e-mail alert1. Enter 5 in the fwMailCfg menu to specify the recipient to whom Fabric Watch should send the

Notification configurationNotifications act as a signal or alert that notifies you when a threshold has been crossed.When you use alarm notifications,

Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring● Fabric monitoring guidelines and default settings...

Fabric class areas (Continued)TABLE 3 Area DescriptionSegmentation changes(SC)Tracks the cumulative number of segmentation changes. Segmentation cha

Fabric class default settingsTABLE 4 Area Description Default threshold settings Default alarmsettingsThreshold stateDomain ID changes Monitors forc

Performance Monitor class areas... 55Performance monitoring setting guidelines...

Security monitoring guidelines and default settingsThe Security class monitors all attempts to breach your SAN security, helping you fine-tune yoursec

Security class area default settings TABLE 6 Area Description Default threshold settings Default alarmsettingsThreshold stateDCC violations (DV) Mon

Security class area default settings (Continued)TABLE 6 Area Description Default threshold settings Default alarmsettingsThreshold stateNo-FCS (NF)

SFP class areasThe table below lists Fabric Watch areas in the SFP class and describes each area. Although it isrecommended that you leave the entire

SFP class default settings (Continued)TABLE 8 Area Description Default threshold settings Default alarmsettingsThreshold stateReceive power(RXP)Moni

Performance Monitor class areasThe table below lists Fabric Watch areas in the Performance Monitor class and describes each area.Although it is recomm

End-to-End Performance Monitor class default settingsTABLE 11 Area Description Default thresholdsettingsDefault alarmsettingsThreshold stateEnd-to-e

Configuration options for thConfig command (Continued)TABLE 12 Class name Valid area types Threshold ThresholdactionConfigurationrecommendationSecur

NOTEBoth the APM license and the Fabric Watch license must be installed on the platform configured in AGmode to use the frame monitoring and EE monito

Fabric Watch also monitors the Brocade Quad SFP (QSFP) and, as for 16 Gbps SFPs, if configuredthresholds are crossed, Fabric Watch generates an SNMP a

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Specifying the 16 Gbps SFP typeYou can use the --sfpType operand as part of the thconfig command to manage the actions andthresholds for the Current,

16 Gbps and QSFP configurable SFP types (Continued)TABLE 13 SFP Type SerialNumberArea Default High Default LowTXP (μW) 1999 125Current (mA) 10 310GL

Recommended settings for Fabric, SFP, Performance, and SecurityclassesThe table below lists the recommended settings for the Fabric, SFP, Security, an

Recommended Environment and Resource class settings (Continued)TABLE 14 E=Error_Log, S=SNMP_Trap,P=Port_LOG_LOCK,M=EMAIL_ALERT, PF=PortFenceHTTP vio

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Port class areas (Continued)TABLE 15 Area DescriptionSignal loss The number of times that a signal loss occurs in a port. Signal loss indicates that

Physical port setting guidelinesIt is recommended that you use the default settings listed in Port class default settings on page 67 formost Port clas

Port class default settings (Continued)TABLE 16 Area Description Default thresholdsettingsDefault alarmsettingsThresholdstateStatechanges(ST)Monitor

Port configurationUse the portThConfig command to configure thresholds for Fabric Watch event monitoring for all portsof a specified type and to displ

Preface● Document conventions...7● Brocade resource

Port type: physical portThe Port class is a superset containing the E_Port, FOP_Port, and FCU_Port subclasses. In general,use the default settings lis

• Set the action to take when a trigger occurs. Here, for the low threshold, only log the event in theRASLog. For the high threshold, log the event in

frame drops if left unchecked; therefore, set the alarm to fence the port. Refer to Port type: E_Port,FOP_Port, or FCU_Port on page 79 for instruction

E_Port class default settings (Continued)TABLE 17 Area Description Default threshold settings Default alarmsettingsThreshold stateInvalidtransmissio

E_Port class default settings (Continued)TABLE 17 Area Description Default threshold settings Default alarmsettingsThreshold stateReceived packets(R

• Areas: Link Failure Count, Loss of Synchronization CountChange the default high boundary from 500 to 15 (per minute) for Link Failure Count and from

• Link Failure Count• Loss of Synchronization Count• Primitive Sequence Protocol Error• Invalid Transmission Word• Invalid CRC Count• Class 3 Discards

FOP_Port and FCU_Port subclass default settings (Continued)TABLE 18 Area Description Default thresholdsettingsDefault alarmsettingsThreshold stateSy

FOP_Port and FCU_Port subclass default settings (Continued)TABLE 18 Area Description Default thresholdsettingsDefault alarmsettingsThreshold stateLi

usually found at less than one percent. Now there is support for configuring packet loss percentages indecimals.To set the high threshold for packet l

Convention Descriptionvalue In Fibre Channel products, a fixed value provided as input to a commandoption is printed in plain text, for example, --sho

Port fencing class and subclass areas TABLE 20 Port type Areas supported for port fencingPhysical ports Cyclic Redundancy Checks (CRC)Invalid Transm

Port fencing recommended area settingsCyclic redundancy check (CRC) errors and invalid transmission words (ITW) can occur on normal links.They have al

The following example configures port fencing on an FOP_Port for the Class 3discard frame area.portFencing --enable fop-port --area C3TX_TODisabling p

Refer to the Brocade Network Advisor User Manual for detailed instructions on how to add, edit, view,and remove thresholds.Port health and CRC monitor

Recommended configuration for the port class (Continued)TABLE 22 E=Error_Log, S=SNMP_Trap,P=Port_LOG_LOCK,M=EMAIL_ALERT, F=Port FenceState Changes X

Recommended configuration for the port class (Continued)TABLE 22 E=Error_Log, S=SNMP_Trap,P=Port_LOG_LOCK,M=EMAIL_ALERT, F=Port FenceRXPerformanceX

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NOTEFabric Watch no longer supports fan monitoring. Event Manager (EM) now manages fan monitoringand the switch status is calculated based on the fan

Resource class area TABLE 25 Area DescriptionFlash Monitors the compact flash space available by calculating the percentage of flash space consumed

Brocade resourcesVisit the Brocade website to locate related documentation for your product and additional Brocaderesources.You can download additiona

System monitoring is disabled by default. You must run both the --config -mem and the --config -cpucommands to enable both memory and CPU system monit

--config env -area temp -highth -value 99 -trigger above -action raslog2. Apply the changes:switch:admin> sysmonitor --apply env -area temp -action

Displaying the current memory usage thresholdTo display the current memory usage threshold, enter the sysMonitor --show mem command.switch:admin> s

Switch status policy planningFabric Watch monitors the health of the switch under various classes. The table below lists the currentoverall switch sta

NOTEThe presence of four or more FS8-18 encryption blades in the DCX Data Center Backbone causes theFabric Watch switch status policy for power suppli

• Flash — Flash thresholds monitor flash memory.• Marginal Ports — Ports that move into the marginal state for reasons such as insufficient buffercred

NOTEThe Off state is applicable only to fans on some platforms, such as the Brocade DCX and BrocadeDCX-4S. The Off state is not applicable to the powe

Recommended FRU settingsRecommended FRU settingsTABLE 30 E=ERROR_LOG,M=EMAIL_ALERTClass Area Absent Inserted On Off Faulty Below AboveFRU Slot X XPo

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Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools● Using Web Tools to configure Fabric Watch................