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Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide xi 53-1002752-01 Tables Table 1 Fabric Watch classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Table 2 Fabric Watch configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide xiii 53-1002752-01 Figures Figure 1 In-between buffer values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Figure 2 Above event trigger with buffer zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide xv 53-1002752-01 About This Document In this chapter • How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv • Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi • Wha...

xvi Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 What’s new in this document • Chapter 8, “System Monitoring,” describes how to configure system memory and CPU values using the sysMonitor command. This chapter also lists the switch status policy factors that affect the health of the switch, desc...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide xvii 53-1002752-01 What’s new in this document New information • Added information about the four threshold types: above high threshold, below high threshold, above low threshold, and below low threshold. • Added information about the thMonitor command, which suppo...

xviii Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 What’s new in this document italic text Provides emphasisIdentifies variablesIdentifies paths and Internet addressesIdentifies document titles code text Identifies CLI outputIdentifies syntax examples For readability, command names in the narrat...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide xix 53-1002752-01 What’s new in this document Additional information This section lists additional Brocade and industry-specific documentation that you might find helpful. To get up-to-the-minute information, go to http://my.brocade.com to register at no cost for a...

xx Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 What’s new in this document 2. Switch Serial Number The switch serial number and corresponding bar code are provided on the serial number label. For specific serial number locations, refer to the Brocade 6520 Hardware Reference Manual . 3. World Wi...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 1 53-1002752-01 Chapter 1 Fabric Watch In this chapter • Fabric health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 • Fabric Watch overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

2 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch overview 1 Fabric Watch overview Fabric Watch is an optional storage area network (SAN) health monitor that allows you to enable each switch to constantly monitor its SAN fabric for potential faults and automatically alerts you to probl...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 3 53-1002752-01 Reasons to customize Fabric Watch settings 1 Universal temporary license support The Fabric Watch license is available as a Universal Temporary or a regular temporary license, meaning the same license key can be installed on any switch running Fabri...

4 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Reasons to customize Fabric Watch settings 1 Time base configuration The time base specifies the time interval between two samples to be compared. The fwSetToCustom command allows you to switch from default to custom settings. Valid intervals are da...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 5 53-1002752-01 Class, area, and element hierarchy 1 Class, area, and element hierarchy Fabric elements and events are organized in a hierarchy by class, area, and element. There is a class, area, and element associated with every monitored behavior. Classes are th...

6 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Switch monitoring components 1 The Performance Monitor class is divided into the following areas: • EE (end-to-end) Performance Monitor - Monitors RX and TX performance between two devices. • Filter Performance Monitor - Measures the number of frame...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 7 53-1002752-01 Switch monitoring components 1 For complete information about port monitoring, including configuration examples, port setting guidelines, and default settings, refer to “Port Monitoring” on page 55. Port persistence The data collected in port monito...

8 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Logical switch support 1 Switch policies Switch policies are a series of rules that define specific health states for the overall switch. Fabric OS interacts with Fabric Watch using these policies. Each rule defines the number of types of errors tha...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 9 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch event settings 1 MIB capability configuration parameters The mibCapability option turns certain MIBs and associated SNMP traps on or off. If a specific MIB is disabled, the corresponding traps are also disabled. If any trap group is dis...

10 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch notification types 1 Enabling e-mail alerts for the Changed threshold state in several areas can quickly result in a significant amount of e-mail. Fabric Watch discards e-mail alerts when more than 100 are generated within a minute, wh...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 11 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch audit messages 1 Locked port log Following an event, the port log locks to retain detailed information about an event, preventing the information from being overwritten as the log becomes full. This notification audit stores event info...

12 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch support in Access Gateway mode 1 Time bases specify the time interval between two samples to be compared. You can set the time base to day (samples are compared once a day), hour (samples are compared once an hour), or minute (samples ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 13 53-1002752-01 Chapter 2 Fabric Watch Thresholds In this chapter • Threshold values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 • Time bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

14 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Threshold triggers 2 In-between buffer values The below high threshold is the term used to configure “in between” buffer values, as shown in Figure 1 . In this example, the high threshold value is 5 and the buffer value is 1. Therefore, the “in-bet...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 15 53-1002752-01 Threshold triggers 2 Above event trigger Set the Above event trigger for an element that requires only high threshold monitoring. In the Above event trigger, Fabric Watch triggers an event immediately after the data value becomes greater than the h...

16 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Time bases 2 Time bases Time bases specify the time interval between two samples to be compared. You can set the time base to day (samples are compared once a day), hour (samples are compared once an hour), minute (samples are compared every minute...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 17 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch alarm behavior 2 Figure 4 shows a sample graph of data obtained by Fabric Watch (the type of data is irrelevant to the example). A high threshold of 2 is specified to trigger an event. A time base of minute is defined. An event occurs ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 19 53-1002752-01 Chapter 3 Fabric Watch Threshold Components In this chapter • Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements Fabric Watch uses a hierarchical organization to ...

20 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements 3 • Chapter 8, “System Monitoring” The Resource class and Environment class areas and actions are configured using the sysMonitor command. The FRU class actions are configured using the fwFruCfg command Ele...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 23 53-1002752-01 Chapter 4 Fabric Watch Activation In this chapter • Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch This section provides a brief overview of the available...

24 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch 4 If the Fabric Watch license is not listed, continue to step 4 ; otherwise, you are ready to use Fabric Watch. 4. Enter the license key with the licenseAdd key command, where key is the Fabric Watch license k...

28 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Interfaces for activating Fabric Watch 4 Activating Fabric Watch using Web Tools You can open Web Tools on any workstation with a compatible Web browser installed. 1. Open the Web browser and type the IP address of the device in the Address field: ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 29 53-1002752-01 Chapter 5 Fabric Watch Configuration In this chapter • Fabric Watch configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 • Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 31 53-1002752-01 Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values 5 Setting Fabric Watch custom and default values Use the following commands to switch between custom and default values. These commands reset all thresholds for all classes: • fwSetToCustom - Sets the ...

32 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 E-mail notification configuration 5 The Config Show menu lists each class for which you can provide a separate e-mail address. 2. Enter the number corresponding to the class for which the e-mail configuration should be displayed. Fabric Watch displ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 33 53-1002752-01 E-mail notification configuration 5 Sending a test e-mail message 1. Enter 4 in the fwMailCfg menu to test the e-mail configuration for a specific class. The Config Show menu displays. 2. Select a class to test. If the e-mail configuration for the ...

34 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Notification configuration 5 The following message displays: Setting 192.168.39.118 as Relay Host.. 4. Enter the Domain Name (example: Brocade.com). Displaying the relay host configuration 1. Enter 6 in the fwMailCfg menu to display the relay host ...

38 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric monitoring guidelines and default settings 6 Fabric monitoring setting guidelines It is recommended that you leave the entire Fabric class in its default state (no alerts) for the following reasons: • Domain ID changes Plan and use strict ch...

40 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Security monitoring guidelines and default settings 6 Security monitoring guidelines and default settings The Security class monitors all attempts to breach your SAN security, helping you fine-tune your security measures. Security class areas Table...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 41 53-1002752-01 Security monitoring guidelines and default settings 6 Security monitoring default settings Use the Security class default settings shown in Table 6 for area and notification configuration. There is no reason to alter the default settings. TABLE 6 S...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 43 53-1002752-01 SFP monitoring guidelines and default settings 6 SFP monitoring guidelines and default settings The SFP class groups areas that monitor the physical aspects of SFPs. An SFP class alarm alerts you to an SFP malfunction fault. SFP performance monitor...

44 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 SFP monitoring guidelines and default settings 6 SFP monitoring default settings The SFP default settings are shown in Table 8 . The default alarm configuration (log all alarms only to the error log) is sufficient. It is recommended that you do not...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 45 53-1002752-01 Performance monitoring guidelines and default settings 6 Performance monitoring guidelines and default settings Performance monitoring serves as a tuning tool. The Performance Monitor class groups areas that track the source and destination of traf...

46 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 thConfig command 6 Table 11 provides default settings for areas in the End-to-End Performance Monitor class. thConfig command You can use the thConfig command to customize event monitoring thresholds for the Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance c...

48 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 thConfig command 6 thConfig command examples With the exception of setting thresholds for the RX area of an end-to-end (EE) performance monitor, which requires special licensing in Access Gateway mode, it is recommended that you use the default set...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 49 53-1002752-01 thConfig command 6 Fabric Watch also monitors the Brocade Quad SFP (QSFP) and, as with the 16 Gbps SFP, if configured thresholds are crossed, Fabric Watch generates an SNMP alarm, a RASlog message, and an e-mail alert for the following SFP areas: •...

50 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 thConfig command 6 Specifying the 16 Gbps SFP type You can use the sfpType operand to manage the actions and thresholds for the Current, Voltage, RXP, TXP, and Temperature areas of the 16 Gbps SFPs. If you do not provide the SFP type parameters, th...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 51 53-1002752-01 thConfig command 6 Displaying the number of 16 Gbps SFP operational hours To show the number of hours that the 16 Gbps SFP is operational, enter the thConfig command using the following parameter. Note that the only supported timebase for this area...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 55 53-1002752-01 Chapter 7 Port Monitoring In this chapter • Port class areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 • Port class guidelines and default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

56 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Port class guidelines and default settings 7 NOTE Only the Packet loss, State changes, and Utilization areas are supported on the VE_Port. Port class guidelines and default settings There are different recommendations and default settings for the p...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 57 53-1002752-01 Port class guidelines and default settings 7 Physical port setting guidelines It is recommended that you use the default settings listed in Table 16 for most Port class areas. Consider the Port class to be a superset containing the E_Port, FOP_Port...

58 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Port configuration 7 Port configuration Use the portThConfig command to configure thresholds for Fabric Watch event monitoring for all ports of a specified type and to display the configuration and current port status in real time. The command synt...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 59 53-1002752-01 portThConfig command procedures 7 NOTE The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may be in place. Refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference Manual for more information and for details about the port...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 61 53-1002752-01 portThConfig command procedures 7 NOTE You cannot specify all for all classes but you can specify all for all areas. switch:admin> portthconfig -- pause | -- continue <class> -area <area_type> -port <[slot/]port> E_Port subclas...

64 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 portThConfig command procedures 7 FOP_Port and FCU_Port subclass setting guidelines FOP_Port and FCU_Port guidelines for the areas listed below represent a more aggressive approach in most areas. NOTE The settings in these subclasses include settin...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 65 53-1002752-01 portThConfig command procedures 7 • Areas: Receive (Rx) Performance, Transmit (Tx) Performance Rx and Tx Performance areas are used to monitor the bandwidth utilization of the device ports in the fabric. Set the high boundary to 85 percent and the ...

68 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 portThConfig command procedures 7 VE_Port class default settings Table 19 provides default settings (per minute) for areas in the VE_Port class. The VE_Port type is not supported in Access Gateway mode. NOTE Only a subset of areas, shown in Table 1...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 69 53-1002752-01 Port fencing 7 Setting the port persistence time Port persistence is used to transition a port into a marginal status. Fabric Watch does not record the event until the event persists for a length of time equal to the port persistence time. If the p...

70 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Port fencing 7 NOTE The execution of the portFencing command is subject to Virtual Fabric (VF) or Admin Domain restrictions that may be in place. For example, in non-VF chassis environments, the state change counter of a trunked slave port gets inc...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 71 53-1002752-01 Port fencing 7 Enabling port fencing 1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin. 2. Configure port thresholds. Information about how to configure port thresholds is detailed in Chapter 7, “Port Monitoring” . 3. Enter the portFencing --enable comm...

72 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Recommended port configuration settings 7 Port fencing requirements To configure port fencing using the DCFM management application, all Fabric OS devices must have Fabric Watch and must be running firmware Fabric OS 6.2 or later. Port fencing thre...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 75 53-1002752-01 Chapter 8 System Monitoring In this chapter • Environment monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 • Resource class settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

76 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide Environment monitoring 8 Environment monitoring setting guidelines Use Environment Class default settings. Temperature settings are switch-dependent and there is no need to alter them. The default alarm configuration, sending alerts to the error lo...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 77 53-1002752-01 Resource class settings 8 Resource class settings The Resource class monitors flash memory. It calculates the amount of flash space consumed and compares it to a defined threshold. Resource class area Table 25 describes the Fabric Watch Resource cl...

78 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide System monitoring using the sysMonitor command 8 System monitoring using the sysMonitor command Use the sysMonitor command to configure temperature and system resource settings at the chassis level. For detailed information about the sysMonitor com...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 79 53-1002752-01 Examples of the sysMonitor command 8 Examples of the sysMonitor command The following sections provide specific examples for the Environment class, CPU, and memory. Environment class settings Temperature settings are switch-dependent and there is n...

80 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide Examples of the sysMonitor command 8 CPU and memory When configuring CPU monitoring, specify a value in the 1-100 range. When the CPU usage exceeds the limit, a Fabric Watch alert is triggered. The default CPU limit is 75 percent. When configuring ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 81 53-1002752-01 Recommended environment and resource monitoring settings 8 Configuring the system memory usage monitoring threshold Enter the sysMonitor command using the following parameters: switch:admin> sysmonitor -- config mem -poll 10 -retry 1 -limit 20 -...

82 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide Switch monitoring 8 Switch status policy planning Fabric Watch monitors the health of the switch under various classes. Table 28 lists the current overall switch status policy parameters in a switch and identifies the factors that affect their heal...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 83 53-1002752-01 Switch monitoring 8 Implementing your switch status policy After you plan and define your switch status policy, implement it using the following procedure. 1. Enter the switchStatusPolicySet command to configure each policy. Each policy has two par...

84 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide FRU monitoring 8 • Missing SFPs—Monitors the number of ports without SFPs. • Error Ports—Ports that are disabled because of segmentation, an authentication failure, port fencing, or bottleneck detection. The policy you defined determines the output...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 85 53-1002752-01 FRU monitoring 8 4. In the prompt that follows your current FRU configuration, you are asked to provide values for each FRU alarm state and alarm action. To accept the default value for each FRU, press Return. After you have configured a FRU alarm ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 87 53-1002752-01 Chapter 9 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools In this chapter • Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools You can use Web Tools to define the foll...

88 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools 9 NOTE Unless the switch is a member of the current Admin Domain context, Fabric Watch is view-only. FIGURE 7 Fabric Watch dialog box Fabric Watch Explorer, on the left side of the window, displays the ava...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 89 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools 9 4. Click the Alarm Configuration tab. 5. Select SNMP Trap, RAS log, or both options. 6. Click Apply. Fabric Watch threshold configuration using Web Tools The Threshold Configuration tab enables you to co...

90 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools 9 9. Enter the highest boundary of the normal zone in the High Boundary field. 10. Enter the size of the buffer zone in the Buffer Size field. 11. Click Apply. Configuring threshold alarms After you update...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 91 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools 9 • Click Custom Defined to specify new settings and proceed to the next step. 6. Select the check box for the type of notification method you want to use for each event type. The available alarm actions a...

92 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools 9 Configuring alarms for FRUs using Web Tools Configuration for the FRU class is different from configuration for the other classes. Because FRUs are not monitored through a threshold-based system, they ha...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 93 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools 9 Fabric Watch alarm information From Fabric Watch, you can view two types of reports: • Alarm notifications—Displays the alarms that occurred for a selected class or area. • Alarm configuration—Displays t...

94 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools 9 To display the alarms page, perform the following steps. 1. Open the Fabric Watch window. 2. In Fabric Watch Explorer, select the class that you want to check for alarms. 3. Select the Alarm Notification...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 95 53-1002752-01 Fabric Watch Configuration Using Web Tools 9 To enable an e-mail alerts recipient, perform the following steps. 1. Open the Fabric Watch window. 2. Select the Email Configuration tab. 3. Select a FRU class in the Fabric Watch Explorer tree. 4. Clic...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 97 53-1002752-01 Chapter 10 Fabric Watch Reports In this chapter • Fabric Watch reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 • Switch Availability Monitor report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

98 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Switch Availability Monitor report 10 Switch Availability Monitor report The Switch Availability Monitor (SAM) report lets you see the uptime and downtime for each port. It also enables you to check if a particular port is failing more often than t...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 99 53-1002752-01 Switch Health report 10 2/12 LB 100 0 0 0 2/13 LB 100 0 0 0 2/14 U 0 0 0 100 2/15 LB 100 0 0 0 3/0 T 100 0 0 0 3/1 U 0 0 0 100 3/2 U 0 0 0 100 3/3 U 0 0 0 100 3/4 U 0 0 0 100 3/5 U 0 0 0 100 3/6 U 0 0 0 100 3/7 U 0 0 0 100 3/8 U 0 0 0 100 3/9 U 0 0...

100 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 53-1002752-01 Switch Status Policy report 10 The final portion of the report, detailing port health, is not available without a Fabric Watch license. Switch Status Policy report The Switch Status Policy report displays the current policy parameter. The followin...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 101 53-1002752-01 Port Detail report 10 Port Detail report If the Switch Health report shows marginal throughput or decreased performance, use the Port Detail report to see statistics on each port. The Port Detail report is a Fabric Watch licensed product. You can ...

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 103 53-1002752-01 Index A above event triggers , 15 access gateway mode, restrictions in Fabric Watch , 12 action configuration guidelines , 4 activating Fabric Watch , 23 , 87 using a Telnet session , 23 using SNMP , 24 using Web Tools , 28 alarm behavior , 17 ala...