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November 24, 2008
Fabric Watch
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric OS v6.2.0

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Document History
Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Date
Fabric Watch User’s Guide 53-0001559-02 New document May 2000
Fabric Watch User’s Guide 53-0000198-02 n/a January 2002
Fabric Watch User’s Guide 53-0000186-02 n/a March 2002
Fabric Watch User’s Guide 53-0000504-02 n/a April 2003
Fabric Watch User’s Guide 53-0000524-02 n/a April 2003
Fabric Watch User’s Guide 53-0000524-03 Updated default values and
restructured the document.
December 2003
Fabric Watch User’s Guide 53-0000524-04 Rewrote the document
completely and added new
features.
Reorganized procedures
into steps, rewrote many
sections to improve clarity.
Added technical and
editorial changes.
April 2004
Fabric Watch User’s Guide 53-0000524-05 Updates to support Fabric
OS v4.4.0 features and
Brocade 3016 and 4100
switches.
Rewrote Chapter 4,
“Configuring Fabric Watch.”
September 2004
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-0000524-06 Renamed book. Combined
the Introduction and
Concepts chapters into a
single chapter. Added
support for Brocade 200E,
Brocade 3014, and Brocade
48000.
March 2005
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1000047-01 Updates to support Fabric
OS v5.1.0 features and
Brocade 4900 and 7500
switches.
November 2005
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1000243-01 Updates to support Fabric
OS v5.2.0 features and the
FC4-16IP and FC4-48 port
blades. Removed references
to Brocade 3014 and 3016,
as embedded switches are
not supported in Fabric OS
v5.2.0.
September 2006

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Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1000438-01 Updates to support Fabric
OS v5.3.0, implementation
of IPV6.
June 2007
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1000601-01 Updates to support Fabric
OS v6.0.0
September 2007
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1000601-02 Updates to support Fabric
OS v6.1.0
March 2008
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1000601-03 Updates to support Fabric
OS v6.2.0: Virtual Fabric,
port movement, fan
monitoring behavior, link
reset, DCX-4S.
November 2008
Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Date

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Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Text Formatting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Chapter 1 About Fabric Watch
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Fabric health concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Fabric Watch overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Fabric Watch alarm notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fabric Watch event notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fabric Watch audit messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Data values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Switch policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Virtual Fabric support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Port persistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Port fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2 Fabric Watch Best Practices
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Fabric Watch default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Reasons to customize Fabric Watch settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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Configuration decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Post-processing of messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 3 Fabric Watch components
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Classes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Environment class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Fabric class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
FRU class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Performance Monitor class areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Port class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Resource class area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Security class areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SFP class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 4 Fabric Watch thresholds
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Threshold values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
High and low thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Buffer values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Time bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Time base set to none . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Time base set to other than none. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Threshold event settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Above event trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Below event trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Changed event trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
In-between event triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Fabric Watch alarm behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

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Chapter 5 Notification methods
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Fabric Watch notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Notification methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Event configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Event behavior types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 6 Activating Fabric Watch
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Fabric Watch and Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Fabric Watch and SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Using the configuration file interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Chapter 7 Fabric Watch default settings
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Fabric Watch default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Environment class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Fabric class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Performance Monitor class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Port class default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
E_Port class default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
F/FL_Port class default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Resource class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Security class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SFP class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 8 Fabric Watch Configurations
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Fabric Watch configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Configuring Fabric Watch with the configuration file. . . . . . . . .56
Configuring Fabric Watch using a pre-designed configuration
template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Threshold configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Selecting the class and area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Configuring thresholds for classes and areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Configuring port fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Advanced configuration options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Changing the threshold boundary level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Changing the behavior type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Enabling and disabling port thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Setting the port persistence time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Alarm notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Notification value configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
SNMP notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
API notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Port Log Lock action configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
E-mail notification configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Switch status policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Switch status policy planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Implementing your switch status policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Viewing your switch status policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
FRU configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Chapter 9 Fabric Watch Reports
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Fabric Watch reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Switch Availability Monitor (SAM) report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Generating a Switch Availability Monitor report. . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Switch Health report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Generating a Switch Health report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Switch Status Policy report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Generating a Switch Status Policy report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Port Detail report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Generating a Port Detail report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Appendix A Fabric Watch Commands
In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Appendix B Port fencing types
Index

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