Finisar Brocade Fabric Watch - Manual (Page 16)

3-4 Fabric Watch User’s Guide
Using Fabric Watch
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Monitors ALPA devices of Loop ports (currently CRC error of
ALPA device only).
End-to-End
1 - Monitors transmitting performance predefined by the
SID-DID pair. Configurable with either telnet commands or
Web Tools at run time.
2 - Monitors receiving performance predefined by the SID-DID
pair. Configurable with either telnet commands or Web Tools
at run time.
3 - Monitors CRC errors of prefedined SID-DID pair.
Configurable with either telnet commands or Web Tools at run
time.
The configuration information of the End-to-End class is lost when
the switch is rebooted or fast booted.
Note: The End-to-End class is only available if the optional
Performance Monitoring license has been purchased and
turned on.
Note: The EE filter is preconfigured with either a telnet command
or Web Tools at run time.
Filter
Monitors the filter counter for a given port. Provides the following
types of information about the filter hit:
1 - Read command
2 - SCSI or IP traffic
3 - SCSI Read/Write
Note: The Filter class is only available if the optional
Performance Monitoring license has been purchased and
turned on.
Note: The type of filter is predefined by configuring it with either
a telnet command or Web Tools at run time.
In addition, each class is subdivided into areas, as listed in the following table.
Table 3-1 Fabric Watch Classes and Areas
Class Area Description
Fabric Loss of E_Port Monitors E_Port status.
Fabric reconfiguration Monitors fabric configuration
changes.
Segmentation changes Monitors segmentation changes.
Domain ID changes Monitors forcible DOMAIN ID
changes.