Security Monitoring; Sfp Monitoring; Port Monitoring - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

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Switch monitoring components
The Performance Monitor class is divided into the following areas:
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NOTE
Performance Monitoring is not supported on VE_Ports, EX_Ports, and VEX _Ports.
For complete information about performance monitoring, refer to
guidelines and default settings"

Security monitoring

The Security class monitors different security violations on the switch and takes action based on
the configured thresholds and their actions. You can customize Security class and area parameters
using the thConfig command.
For complete information about security monitoring, refer to
default settings"

SFP monitoring

The SFP class groups areas that monitor the physical aspects of an SFP, such as voltage, current,
RXP, TXP, and state changes in physical ports, E_Ports, FOP_Ports, and FCU_Ports. An SFP class
alarm alerts you to an SFP malfunction fault. You can customize SFP class and area parameters
using the thConfig command.
NOTE
SFPs connected to any GbE ports are not monitored by Fabric Watch.
For complete information about SFP monitoring, refer to
settings"

Port monitoring

Port monitoring monitors port statistics and takes action based on the configured thresholds and
actions. You can configure thresholds per port type and apply the configuration to all ports of the
specified type using the portThConfig command. Configurable ports include physical ports,
E_Ports, optical F_Ports (FOP_Ports), copper F_Ports (FCU_Ports), and Virtual E_Ports (VE_Ports).
NOTE
The execution of the portThConfig command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain
restrictions that may be in place. Refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference Manual for more
information and for details about the portThConfig command.
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EE (end-to-end) Performance Monitor - monitors RX and TX performance between two devices.
Filter Performance Monitor - measures the number of frames transmitted through a port that
match specific values in the first 64 bytes of the frame. Since the entire Fibre Channel frame
header and many of upper protocol's header fall within the first 64 bytes of a frame,
filter-based monitoring can measure different types of traffic transmitted through a port.
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"SFP monitoring guidelines and default
"Performance monitoring
"Security monitoring guidelines and
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