Brocade Communications Systems Brocade Fabric Watch User Manual page 15

Several customized profiles for Fabric Watch are available at the following website:
http://www.brocade.com/support/mibs_rsh/index.jhtml
Each profile is for a different purpose, and contains only the configuration information that is
different from the default configuration.
The intention is to have distinct configuration setting for enterprise SAN and a workgroup SAN's
are left for individual user's.
The default information is always preserved. After loading the profile, you can specify whether the
default or the profile information is used.
A profile may contain the following information:
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Threshold values:
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Alarm values
Classes
Fabric and switch elements are organized into classes (also known as Agents), which are groupings
of closely related elements. There major classes are:
Fabric
Environmental
Port
E_Port
F/FL_Port (Optical)
F/FL_Port (Copper)
GBIC
ALPA
Fabric Watch User's Guide
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Unit string
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Time base
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Lower boundary
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Upper boundary
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Buffer size
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Change
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Exceed
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Below
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Above
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In-between
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Behavior type
Monitors key fabric resources, such as fabric reconfiguration,
zoning changes, new fabric logins
Monitors switch environment functions, such as temperature,
power supply, fan status
Monitors port error and performance counters
Monitors E_Port error and performance counters
Monitors optical FL/F_Port error and performance counters
Monitors copper FL/F_Port error and performance counters
Monitors operational values for FINISAR smart GBICs
Note:
The ALPA class is only available if the optional
Performance Monitoring license has been purchased and
turned on.
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