Defining Switch Policy - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

4. Optional: Hold the cursor on the Action bar and click an action to perform one of the following

Defining Switch Policy

The Switch Policy dialog box lets you define the values for what you consider a healthy switch. The
parameters for Switch Policy define whether the unit is listed as being "Healthy", "Marginal", or
"Down".
Use this dialog box to set policy parameters for calculating the overall status of the switch. The
policy parameter values determine how many failed or faulty units of each contributor are allowed
before triggering a status change in the switch from "Healthy" to "Marginal" or "Down". The
existence of policies such as WWN, CP, and Blade might differ from platform to platform.
Any single contributor can force the overall status of the switch to MARGINAL or DOWN. For
example, assuming that the switch contributor values are set to the default values, if there is one
faulty port in a switch, then this contributor would set the overall switch status to MARGINAL. If two
ports were faulty, then this contributor would set the overall switch status to DOWN.
Note that the value, 0, for a parameter, means that it is NOT used in the calculation. In addition, if
the range of configurable values in the prompt is (0..0), the policy parameter is NOT applicable to
the switch.
Use the following procedure to define the Switch Status Policy.
1. Open the Web Tools main page.
2. Click the Switch Status Policy button.
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NOTE
The Port Detail Report and Switch Availability Monitor (SAM) reports display the details of only
those ports which are members of the current Admin Domain context and the E_Ports of the
switch.
options:
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Refresh the information displayed in the report
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Customize the report
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View the data in raw XML format
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View the style sheet for the report
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View the XML schema for the report
The Switch Status Policy dialog box displays, as shown in
Defining Switch Policy
Figure 43.
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