Finisar Brocade Fabric Watch 사용자 설명서

This chapter provides the following information:

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Brocade Brocade Fabric Watch

TM 

is used by SAN managers to monitor key fabric and switch 

elements, making it easy to quickly identify and escalate potential problems. It monitors each 
element for out-of-boundary values or counters and provides notification when any exceed the 
defined boundaries. The SAN manager can configure which elements, such as error, status, and 
performance counters within a SilkWorm switch, are monitored.

Brocade Fabric Watch

TM

 is an optionally licensed product that runs on SilkWorm 2000 series 

switches and above with Brocades Fabric OS™ version v3.0. Brocade Fabric Watch

TM

 can be 

accessed through:

Brocade Web Tools

A telnet interface

A SNMP-based enterprise manager

By modifying and uploading the Brocade Fabric Watch

TM

 configuration file to the switch.

Brocade Fabric Watch

TM

 monitors the following elements:

Fabric events (such as topology reconfigurations, zone changes)

Switch environment (fans, power supplies, and temperature)

Ports (state changes, errors, and performance)

GBICs (for switches equipped with SMART GBICs. 
     Example: the Finiasr SMART GBIC FTR-8519-3).

With Brocade Fabric Watch

TM

 installed, each switch continuously monitors error and performance 

counters against a set of defined ranges. This and other information specific to each monitored 
element is made available by Brocade Fabric Watch

TM

 for viewing and, in some cases, 

modification. This set of information about each element is called a threshold, and the upper and 
lower limits of the defined ranges are called boundaries.

If conditions break out of acceptable ranges, an event is considered to have occurred, and one or 
more of the following alarms (reporting mechanisms) are generated if configured for the relevant 
threshold:

SNMP trap