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Administering Fabric Watch

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Fabric Watch overview

Fabric Watch is an optional Brocade licensed feature that monitors the performance and status of
switches. Fabric Watch can automatically alert you when problems arise, before they become costly
failures.
NOTE
Fabric Watch is view-only if you do not own the switch. Owning ports on a switch is not enough to
enable Fabric Watch on that switch.
To use Fabric Watch, you must have a Fabric Watch license installed on the switch.
Fabric Watch tracks a number of SAN fabric elements, events, and counters. For example, Fabric
Watch monitors the following:
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Fabric Watch lets you define how often to measure each switch and fabric element and allows you
to specify notification thresholds. Whenever fabric elements exceed these thresholds, Fabric Watch
automatically provides notification using several methods, including e-mail messages, SNMP traps,
and log entries.
For detailed information regarding Fabric Watch, refer to the Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide.
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Fabric Watch overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
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Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
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System Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
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Fabric Watch threshold configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
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Configuring alarms for FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
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Fabric Watch alarm information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
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E-mail notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Fabric resources, including fabric reconfigurations, zoning changes, and new logins.
Switch environmental functions, such as temperature, power supply, and fan status, along with
security violations.
Port state transitions, errors, and traffic information for multiple port classes as well as
operational values for supported models of Finisar "Smart" GBICs/SFPs.
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