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
• Fabric Watch
  • Fabric health
  • Fabric Watch overview
  • Role-based access control
  • Fabric Watch licensing
  • Reasons to customize Fabric Watch settings
    • Event behavior configuration
    • Alert configuration
    • Time base configuration
    • Threshold and action configuration
    • Monitoring
    • Post-processing of messages
  • Class, area, and element hierarchy
  • Switch monitoring components
    • Fabric events monitoring
    • Performance monitoring
    • Security monitoring
    • SFP monitoring
    • Port monitoring
      • Port persistence
      • Port fencing
    • System resource monitoring
    • Switch policies
  • Logical switch support
  • Threshold monitoring using SNMP tables
    • MIB capability configuration parameters
  • Fabric Watch event settings
  • Fabric Watch notification types
    • E-mail alerts
    • SNMP traps
      • SNMP trap counters
    • RASLog for switch events
    • Locked port log
  • Fabric Watch audit messages
  • Data values
  • Fabric Watch support in Access Gateway mode
• Fabric Watch Thresholds
  • Threshold values
    • In-between buffer values
  • Threshold triggers
    • Above event trigger
    • Below event trigger
    • Audit and RASLog messages
  • Time bases
    • Time base set to none
    • Time base set to other than none
  • Fabric Watch alarm behavior
• Fabric Watch Threshold Components
  • Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements
    • Classes
    • Class areas
    • Elements
• Fabric Watch Activation
  • Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch
  • Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session
  • Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP
  • Activating Fabric Watch using Web Tools
• Fabric Watch Configuration
  • Fabric Watch configuration tasks
  • Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values
  • E-mail notification configuration
    • Showing e-mail configuration information
    • Disabling an e-mail alert
    • Enabling an e-mail alert
    • Sending a test e-mail message
    • Setting the recipient e-mail address for an e-mail alert
    • Setting the relay host IP address
    • Displaying the relay host configuration
    • Removing the relay host configuration
  • Notification configuration
    • Configuring alarm notifications
• Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring
  • Fabric monitoring guidelines and default settings
    • Fabric class areas
    • Fabric monitoring setting guidelines
    • Fabric class default settings
  • Security monitoring guidelines and default settings
    • Security class areas
    • Security monitoring default settings
  • SFP monitoring guidelines and default settings
    • SFP class areas
    • SFP monitoring default settings
  • Performance monitoring guidelines and default settings
    • Performance Monitor class areas
    • Performance monitoring setting guidelines
    • Performance Monitor class default settings
  • thConfig command
    • thConfig command examples
      • Setting the high threshold of the RX area of an EE monitor
      • Pausing and continuing monitoring
      • Monitoring the filter performance class
    • 16 Gbps SFP and QSFP monitoring
      • Voltage and temperature monitoring using the QSFP
      • Logical switch considerations with QSFP
      • Monitoring the SFP and QSFP
      • Specifying the 16 Gbps SFP type
      • Displaying the number of 16 Gbps SFP operational hours
      • Displaying the SFP health information
  • Recommended settings for Fabric, SFP, Performance, and Security classes
• Port Monitoring
  • Port class areas
  • Port class guidelines and default settings
    • Physical port setting guidelines
    • Port class default settings
  • Port configuration
    • Custom port settings
    • Using the nosave command
  • portThConfig command procedures
    • Port type: physical port
      • Configuring all physical ports to monitor invalid CRC counts
      • Configuring all physical ports to monitor for invalid transmission words
      • Pausing and continuing monitoring
    • E_Port subclass setting guidelines
    • E_Port class default settings
    • FOP_Port and FCU_Port subclass setting guidelines
    • FOP_Port and FCU_Port subclass default settings
    • VE_Port class default settings
      • Packet loss monitoring enhancements on the VE_Port
    • Port type: E_Port, FOP_Port, or FCU_Port
    • Setting the port persistence time
  • Port fencing
    • Port fencing configuration
      • Port fencing recommended area settings
      • Enabling port fencing
      • Disabling port fencing
    • Port fencing configuration using BNA
      • Port fencing requirements
      • Port fencing threshold areas supported on BNA
  • Port health and CRC monitoring
  • Recommended port configuration settings
• System Monitoring
  • Environment monitoring
    • Environment class area
    • Environment monitoring setting guidelines
    • Environment class default settings
  • Resource class settings
    • Resource class area
    • Resource class default settings
  • System monitoring using the sysMonitor command
    • Using the nosave command
    • Examples of the sysMonitor command
      • Environment class settings
        • Pausing and continuing monitoring
        • Displaying the threshold of the system areas
        • Example of configuring the temperature threshold
      • Resource class settings
        • Displaying the system flash parameters
      • CPU and memory
      • Examples of the CPU and memory commands
        • Displaying the current CPU usage threshold
        • Displaying the current memory usage threshold
        • Configuring the system memory usage monitoring threshold
  • Recommended environment and resource monitoring settings
  • Switch monitoring
    • Switch status policy planning
      • Brocade DCX 8510-8 default policy
      • Brocade 6505 default policy
      • Implementing your switch status policy
      • Viewing your switch status policy
  • FRU monitoring
    • FRU class areas
    • Configuring FRUs
    • Specifying triggers for FRU alarms
    • Recommended FRU settings
• Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools
  • Using Web Tools to configure Fabric Watch
    • Opening the Fabric Watch window
    • System monitoring using Web Tools
  • Fabric Watch threshold configuration using Web Tools
    • Configuring threshold traits
    • Configuring threshold alarms
    • Enabling or disabling threshold alarms for individual elements
  • Configuring alarms for FRUs using Web Tools
  • Configuring alarm filters using Web Tools
  • Fabric Watch alarm information
    • Viewing an alarm configuration report
    • Displaying alarms
  • E-mail notification using Web Tools
    • Configuring the e-mail server on a switch
    • Enabling the e-mail alert
    • Disabling the e-mail alert
• Fabric Watch Reports
  • Fabric Watch reports
  • Switch Availability Monitor report
    • Generating a Switch Availability Monitor report
  • Switch Health report
    • Generating a Switch Health report
  • Switch Status Policy report
    • Generating a Switch Status Policy report
  • Port Detail report
    • Generating a Port Detail report
• Index