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Fabric Watch

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Fabric OS v6.4.0

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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

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

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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 Reorganized many sections

to improve clarity.

Updates to support Fabric

OS v6.2.0: Virtual Fabric,

port movement, fan

monitoring behavior, link

reset, DCX-4S.

November 2008

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1001342-01 Updates to support Fabric

OS v6.3.0: portThConfig,

portFencing, and sysMonitor

commands and Brocade

8000 support.

July 2009

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1001770-01 Updates to support Fabric

OS v6.4.0: portThConfig,

sysMonitor, thConfig, and

portFencing commands

(recommended for use in

configuring class areas

instead of the fwConfigure

command); recommended

class settings added.

March 2010

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

New information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Changed information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Removed information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx

Chapter 1 Fabric Watch

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Fabric health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Fabric Watch overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Role-based access control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Fabric Watch licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Fabric Watch threshold components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Switch monitoring components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Fabric events monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Security monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

SFP monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Port monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

System resource monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Threshold monitoring using SNMP tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

MIB capability configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Fabric Watch event settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Types of event behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Fabric Watch notification types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

E-mail alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

SNMP traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

RASlog (switch event) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Locked port log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Fabric Watch audit messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Data values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Reasons to customize Fabric Watch settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Threshold and action configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Event behavior configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Time base configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Alert configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Post-processing of messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Chapter 2 Fabric Watch Thresholds

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Threshold values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

High and low thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Buffer values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Time bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Time base set to none . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Time base set to other than none. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Threshold triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Above event trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Below event trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Changed event trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Fabric Watch alarm behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Chapter 3 Fabric Watch Threshold Components

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Class areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 4 Fabric Watch Activation

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Activating Fabric Watch using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Chapter 5 Fabric Watch Configuration

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Fabric Watch configuration tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

E-mail notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Showing e-mail configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Disabling an e-mail alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Enabling an e-mail alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Sending a test e-mail message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Setting recipient e-mail address for e-mail alert . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Setting the relay host IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Displaying the relay host configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Removing the relay host configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Notification configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Configuring alarm notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Chapter 6 Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Fabric monitoring guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Fabric class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Fabric monitoring setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Fabric class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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Security monitoring guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Security class areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Security monitoring setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Security class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

SFP monitoring guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

SFP class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

SFP monitoring setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

SFP class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Performance monitoring guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . 49

Performance Monitor class areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Performance monitoring setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Performance Monitor class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Configuration options for thConfig command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Customizing thConfig command settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using the nosave command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

thConfig command restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Example of thConfig command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Recommended settings for Fabric, SFP, Performance,

and Security monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Chapter 7 Port Monitoring

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Port class areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Port class guidelines and default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Physical port setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Port class default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

E_Port subclass setting guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

E_Port class default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

FOP_Port and FCU_Port subclass setting guidelines . . . . . . . . 64

FOP_Port and FCU_Port subclass default settings . . . . . . . . . .65

VE_Port class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Custom port settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using the nosave command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

portThConfig command procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Port type: physical port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Port type: E_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Setting the port persistence time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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Port fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Recommended high port fencing thresholds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Recommended low port fencing thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Port fencing configuration using the portFencing command . . 75

Port fencing configuration using DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Recommended port configuration settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Chapter 8 System Monitoring

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Environment monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Environment class area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Environment monitoring setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Environment class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Resource class settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Resource class area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Resource class setting guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Resource class default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

System monitoring using the sysMonitor command. . . . . . . . . . . . .85

Canceling sysMonitor command configurations . . . . . . . . . . . .85

Using the nosave command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Environment class settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

CPU and memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Recommended environment and resource monitoring settings . . . 88

Switch monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Switch status policy planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

FRU monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

FRU class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Configuring FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Specifying triggers for FRU alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Recommended FRU settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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Chapter 9 Fabric Watch Reports

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Fabric Watch reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Switch Availability Monitor report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Generating a Switch Availability Monitor report. . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Switch Health report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Generating a Switch Health report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Switch Status Policy report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Generating a Switch Status Policy report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

Port Detail report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Generating a Port Detail report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Appendix A Fabric Watch Configuration Using Legacy Commands

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Port threshold configuration using the fwConfigure command . . .101

Setting port thresholds using the fwConfigure command . . .102

Refreshing a threshold configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Disabling a threshold configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Enabling a threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Enabling and disabling all port thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Changing the threshold boundary level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Configuring port fencing using the fwConfigure command . . . . . .109

Advanced options using the fwConfigure command . . . . . . . . . . .112

Changing the numerical values of notification methods. . . . .114

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