Fabric Watch Alarm Information; Table 31 Alarm Notification Table Fields - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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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To view an alarm configuration report, perform the following steps.
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.
NOTE
Note that for the FRU class, only the Name, State, and Time columns are displayed. In addition, if
the FRU area is Fan, the Name column refers to either a fan or a fan FRU, depending on the switch
model.
TABLE 31
Field
Name
State
Reason
Last Value
Current Value
Time
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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 7 on page 88).
Alarm notification table fields
Description
The string assigned to the element that had an event
The current state of the element
The event type that was triggered
The data value of the element when the event was triggered
The current data value of the element
Time when the event occurred
Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools
Table 31 describes the columns in this report. You can click the
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