Fabric Watch Alarm Information; Viewing An Alarm Configuration Report; Displaying Alarms - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

5. Select the alarm states for which you want an event to register.
6. Select the methods by which you want to be notified about the FRU alarms.
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8. Click OK to save the changes to the switch.

Fabric Watch alarm information

From Fabric Watch, you can view two types of reports:
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Viewing an alarm configuration report

Use the Threshold Configuration tab, Configuration Report subtab to display a report of the
configuration for a selected class or area with the following information:
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Use the following procedure to view an alarm configuration report.
1. Open the Fabric Watch window.
2. Select the Threshold Configuration tab.
3. Select a previously configured element from Fabric Watch Explorer (for instructions, refer to
4. Under Area Selection, select the alarm area report to be viewed.
5. Select the Configuration Report subtab.

Displaying alarms

Using the Alarm Notification tab, you can view a list of all alarms that occurred for a selected class
or area
header of each column to change the way the information is sorted in your view. You can also
right-click the column header and select sort options from a menu.
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If a FRU of the selected type is determined that it is one of the selected states, an event will
occur.
For FRUs, the only options are error log and e-mail alert.
Click Apply to apply the changes to the switch.
A confirmation dialog box displays, asking if you want to apply the changes to the switch.
Alarm notifications—Displays the alarms that occurred for a selected class or area.
Alarm configuration—Displays threshold and alarm configurations for a selected class or area.
Threshold settings (labeled Threshold Configuration)
Notification settings (labeled Action Configuration)
Element settings (not labeled) — You can scroll through this information, but cannot make
changes.
"Enabling or disabling threshold alarms for individual elements"
This tab displays a report of the configuration for the selected area.
(Figure 53 on page 172).

Fabric Watch alarm information

Table 15 describes the columns in this report. You can click the
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