Document Outline

• Contents
• Tables
• Figures
• About This Document
  • In this chapter
  • How this document is organized
  • Supported hardware and software
    • Deprecated hardware platform support
  • What’s new in this document
    • New information
    • Changed information
    • Removed information
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting
    • Notes, cautions, and warnings
    • Key terms
  • Additional information
    • Other industry resources
  • Getting technical help
  • Document feedback
• Fabric Watch
  • In this chapter
  • 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
    • 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 alert
    • SNMP traps
    • RASlog (switch event)
    • Locked port log
  • Fabric Watch audit messages
  • Data values
  • Fabric Watch support in Access Gateway mode
• Fabric Watch Thresholds
  • In this chapter
  • 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
  • In this chapter
  • Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements
    • Classes
    • Class areas
    • Elements
• Fabric Watch Activation
  • In this chapter
  • 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
  • In this chapter
  • 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 recipient e-mail address for 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
  • In this chapter
  • 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
    • 16 Gbps and QSFP monitoring
  • Recommended settings for Fabric, SFP, Performance, Security classes
• Port Monitoring
  • In this chapter
  • 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
    • 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
    • Port type: E_Port, FOP_Port, or FCU_Port
    • Setting the port persistence time
  • Port fencing
    • Port fencing configuration
    • Port fencing configuration using BNA
  • Recommended port configuration settings
• System Monitoring
  • In this chapter
  • Environment monitoring
    • Environment class area
    • Environment monitoring setting guidelines
    • Environment class default settings
  • Resource class settings
    • Resource class area
    • Resource class setting guidelines
    • Resource class default settings
  • System monitoring using the sysMonitor command
    • Using the nosave command
  • Examples of the sysMonitor command
    • Environment class settings
    • Resource class settings
    • CPU and memory
    • Examples of the CPU and memory commands
  • Recommended environment and resource monitoring settings
  • Switch monitoring
    • Switch status policy planning
  • FRU monitoring
    • FRU class areas
    • Configuring FRUs
    • Specifying triggers for FRU alarms
    • Recommended FRU settings
• Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools
  • In this chapter
  • Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools
    • Opening the Fabric Watch window
    • System Monitoring using Web Tools
    • Fabric Watch threshold configuration using Web Tools
    • Configuring alarms for FRUs using Web Tools
    • Configuring alarm filters using Web Tools
    • Fabric Watch alarm information
    • E-mail notification using Web Tools
• Fabric Watch Reports
  • In this chapter
  • 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