Tracking And Controlling Switch Changes; Switch Status Policy Threshold Values - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Tracking and controlling switch changes

The track changes feature allows you to keep a record of specific changes that may not be considered
switch events, but may provide useful information. The output from the track changes feature is dumped to
the system messages log for the switch. Use the errDump or errShow command to view the log.
Items in the log created from the Track changes feature are labeled TRCK.
Trackable changes are:
• Successful login
• Unsuccessful login
• Logout
• Configuration file change from task
• Track changes on
• Track changes off
An SNMP-TRAP mode can also be enabled (see the trackChangesHelp command in the Fabric OS
Command Reference).
To enable the track changes feature:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Issue the following command to enable the track changes feature: trackChangesSet 1.
A message displays, verifying that the track changes feature is on:
switch:admin> trackchangesset 1
Committing configuration...done.
switch:admin>
3. Use the errDump or errShow command to view the log.
2004/08/24-08:45:43, [TRCK-1001], 212,, INFO, ras007, Successful login by user admin.
To display the status of the track changes feature:
Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
1.
2. Issue the trackChangesShow command.
The status of the track changes feature is displayed as either on or off. The display includes whether or
not the track changes feature is configured to send SNMP traps.
switch:admin> trackchangesshow
Track changes status: ON
Track changes generate SNMP-TRAP: NO
switch:admin>

Switch status policy threshold values

The policy parameter determines the number of failed or inoperable units for each contributor that triggers
a status change in the switch.
Each parameter can be adjusted so that a specific threshold must be reached before that parameter
changes the overall status of a switch to MARGINAL or DOWN. For example, if the FaultyPorts DOWN
parameter is set to 3, the status of the switch changes if 3 ports fail. Only one policy parameter needs to
pass the MARGINAL or DOWN threshold to change the overall status of the switch.
For more information about setting policy parameters, see the Fabric Watch Administrator Guide.
To view the switch status policy threshold values:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
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