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Using Fabric Watch

Several customized profiles for Fabric Watch are available at the following website:

http://www.brocade.com/support/mibs_rsh/index.jhtml

Each profile is for a different purpose, and contains only the configuration information that is 
different from the default configuration. 

The intention is to have distinct configuration setting for enterprise SAN and a workgroup SAN’s 
are left for individual user’s.

The default information is always preserved. After loading the profile, you can specify whether the 
default or the profile information is used.

A profile may contain the following information: 

Threshold values:

Unit string

Time base

Lower boundary 

Upper boundary

Buffer size

Alarm values

Change

Exceed

Below

Above

In-between

Behavior type

Fabric and switch elements are organized into classes (also known as Agents), which are groupings 
of closely related elements. There major classes are:

Monitors key fabric resources, such as fabric reconfiguration, 
zoning changes, new fabric logins

Monitors switch environment functions, such as temperature, 
power supply, fan status

Monitors port error and performance counters

Monitors E_Port error and performance counters

Monitors optical FL/F_Port error and performance counters

Monitors copper FL/F_Port error and performance counters

Monitors operational values for FINISAR smart GBICs

The ALPA class is only available if the optional 
Performance Monitoring license has been purchased and 
turned on.