Brocade Communications Systems A7990A - StorageWorks SAN Director 4/16 Blade Switch Administrator's Manual page 120

7
Monitoring Alerts
Table 7-1
Type of Alert
Password expiration or
lockout
User authentication
fails
Performance
Monitoring
7-6
Alert Types (Continued)
Description
Generated when a password expires or is about to expire, or when a user
account is locked out due to too many unsuccessful login attempts.
Note the following characteristics:
•
If the password expiry warning period is reached, a switch-level
warning alert is displayed. The alert is resolved when either the
password expires or when the password is changed and the user
authenticates to that switch from Fabric Manager.
•
If the password expires, a switch-level critical alert is displayed. The
alert is resolved when the password is changed and the user
authenticates to that switch from Fabric Manager.
•
If the user account is locked out, then a switch-level critical alert is
displayed. The alert is resolved when the account is unlocked.
Generated when a change to the user role prevents the user from being
authenticated on the switch. The last occurrence time of the alert is updated
every time the condition is detected, such as when the user logs in to the
switch or manually refreshes the status information, or when Fabric Manager
automatically polls the switch.
The alert is resolved when the user credentials are changed and
authentication is successful.
Two types of alerts are generated via Performance Monitoring: data
collection (via the five-minute thread), and end-to-end monitor validation
(via the 24-hour thread).
The alerts are resolved (by the five-minute and one-hour threads,
respectively) when the error condition that raised the alert is rectified. The
alert is logged the first time the error is encountered and remains until the
data is recaptured successfully or you turn Performance Monitoring off.
The following scenarios generate an alert:
•
Resource limit exceeded
•
Advanced Performance Monitoring license removed or otherwise
unavailable on a switch where end-to-end monitors needs to be created
•
Combination of resource limit and license missing
•
Authentication failure via API
•
API reports a fabric access exception, causing an alert to be logged with
the API error code and error message (if available)
•
Database exceptions
These alerts are at the fabric level.
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