Document Outline

• Contents
• Preface
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting conventions
    • Command syntax conventions
    • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Brocade resources
  • Contacting Brocade Technical Support
  • Document feedback
• About This Document
  • Supported hardware and software
  • What's new in this document
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Overview
  • MAPS overview
  • MAPS license requirements
  • MAPS configuration files
    • Deleting a user-created MAPS configuration file
  • MAPS interoperability with other features
  • Restrictions on MAPS monitoring
  • Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations for MAPS
    • Firmware upgrade considerations
    • Firmware downgrade considerations
  • Fabric Watch to MAPS migration
    • Differences between Fabric Watch and MAPS configurations
• MAPS Setup and Operation
  • Initial MAPS setup
    • Enabling MAPS using Fabric Watch rules
    • Enabling MAPS without using Fabric Watch rules
  • Monitoring across different time windows
  • Setting the active MAPS policy
  • Pausing MAPS monitoring
  • Resuming MAPS monitoring
• MAPS Elements and Categories
  • MAPS structural elements
  • MAPS monitoring categories
    • Port Health
      • Port health and CRC monitoring
    • FRU Health
    • Security Violations
    • Fabric State Changes
    • Switch Resource
    • Traffic Performance
    • FCIP Health
    • Fabric Performance Impact
    • Switch Policy Status
• MAPS Groups, Policies, Rules, and Actions
  • MAPS groups overview
    • Viewing group information
    • Predefined groups
    • User-defined groups
      • Creating a static user-defined group
      • Modifying a static user-defined group
      • Creating a dynamic user-defined group
      • Modifying a dynamic user-defined group
    • Cloning a group
    • Deleting groups
    • Restoring group membership
  • MAPS policies overview
    • Predefined policies
      • Default MAPS policy rules
    • User-defined policies
    • Fabric Watch legacy policies
    • Working with MAPS policies
      • Viewing policy information
      • Creating a policy
      • Enabling a policy
      • Modifying a user-defined policy
      • Modifying a default policy
  • MAPS conditions
    • Threshold values
    • Time base
  • MAPS rules overview
    • MAPS rule actions
      • Enabling or disabling rule actions at a global level
      • RASLog messages
      • SNMP traps
      • E-mail alert
      • Port fencing and port decommissioning
        • Port decommissioning and firmware downgrades
        • Configuring port decommissioning
        • Enabling port fencing
      • Switch critical
      • Switch marginal
      • SFP marginal
    • Working with MAPS rules and actions
      • Viewing MAPS rules
      • Creating a rule
      • Modifying a MAPS policy rule
      • Cloning a rule
      • Rule deletion
      • Sending alerts using e-mail
        • E-mail alert testing
        • Configuring e-mail server information
        • Viewing configured e-mail server information
        • Deleting e-mail server configuration
• Port Monitoring Using MAPS
  • Port monitoring and pausing
  • Monitoring similar ports using the same rules
  • Port monitoring using port names
  • Port monitoring using device WWNs
  • Adding a port to an existing group
  • Adding missing ports to a group
  • Removing ports from a group
  • D_Port monitoring
• Monitoring Flow Vision Flows with MAPS
  • Viewing Flow Vision Flow Monitor data with MAPS
    • Flow Vision statistics supported by MAPS
    • Restrictions on Flow Vision flow monitoring
    • Removing flows from MAPS
      • If a flow is deleted in Flow Vision
    • Sub-flow monitoring and MAPS
  • Examples of using MAPS to monitor traffic performance
  • Examples of monitoring flows at the sub-flow level
• MAPS Dashboard
  • MAPS dashboard overview
    • MAPS dashboard period display options
    • Clearing data
  • MAPS dashboard sections
    • Notes on dashboard data
  • Viewing the MAPS dashboard
    • Viewing a summary switch status report
    • Viewing a detailed switch status report
    • Viewing historical data
    • Viewing data for a specific time window
• Additional MAPS Features
  • Fabric performance monitoring using MAPS
    • Enabling MAPS Fabric Performance Impact monitoring
    • Bottleneck detection with the MAPS dashboard
    • MAPS Fabric Performance Impact monitoring and legacy bottleneck monitoring
  • Scalability limit monitoring
    • Layer 2 fabric device connection monitoring
    • Imported LSAN device connection monitoring in a metaSAN
    • Backbone fabric Fibre Channel router count monitoring
    • Zone configuration size monitoring
    • Scalability limit monitoring assumptions and dependencies
    • Default rules for scalability limit monitoring
    • Examples of scalability limit rules
  • MAPS Service Availability Module
  • Brocade 7840 FCIP monitoring using MAPS
• MAPS Threshold Values
  • Viewing monitoring thresholds
  • Fabric monitoring thresholds
  • FCIP monitoring thresholds
  • FRU state thresholds
  • Port Health monitoring thresholds
  • Resource monitoring thresholds
  • Security monitoring thresholds
  • SFP monitoring thresholds
  • Fabric Performance Impact thresholds
  • Switch Status Policy thresholds
  • Traffic Performance thresholds