Chapter 4 Fabric Watch Activation; In This Chapter; Interfaces For Activating Fabric Watch; Activating Fabric Watch Using A Telnet Session - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

Fabric Watch Activation

In this chapter

Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch

This section provides a brief overview of the available user interfaces for activating Fabric Watch.
Further details about Fabric Watch operations for each interface are provided later in this guide.
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Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the following command, where switch represents the name or IP address of the switch:
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Telnet session - Provides a command prompt where you can run Fabric OS commands to
configure your switch monitoring settings. See
for instructions on how to activate Fabric Watch using a Telnet session.
Web Tools - Provides a graphical user interface that can be launched from an Internet browser,
which allows you to launch a Fabric Watch window to configure switch monitoring settings.
Using Web Tools, you can configure thresholds, alarms, and e-mail notifications. See
"Activating Fabric Watch using Web Tools"
Watch using Web Tools.
SNMP - Provides a receiver dedicated to monitoring the data center infracture; Brocade
switches and directors enable monitoring of specific incidents and trigger an SNMP alert
based on a user-defined threshold sending the alert to the dedicated SNMP trap receiver.
Configuring SNMP threshold alerts for Fabric OS switches requires using Web Toos to set up
SNMP on the Fabric OS switch. See
instructions on how to set up SNMP.
telnet switch
After you enter this command, respond to the prompts for a username and password.
"Activating Fabric Watch using a Telnet session"
on page 28 for instructions on how to activate Fabric
"Activating Fabric Watch using SNMP"
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