Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002153-01, April 2011)

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
This document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “Fabric Watch,” provides an introduction to Fabric Watch and the benefits of its use.
It also defines concepts that are useful in Fabric Watch configuration.
• Chapter 2, “Fabric Watch Thresholds,” explains the concept of high and low thresholds and
buffer values and provides examples of various threshold settings.
• Chapter 3, “Fabric Watch Threshold Components,” describes the components (class, area, and
element) associated with every monitored behavior.
• Chapter 4, “Fabric Watch Activation,” describes the Fabric Watch requirements, provides an
overview of the interfaces, and explains the methods of accessing Fabric Watch through each
interface.
• Chapter 5, “Fabric Watch Configuration,” provides a comprehensive table that lists the
commands you can use to create custom threshold configurations. This chapter discusses
configuration files, setting the port persistence time, custom and default values, and e-mail
notifications.
• Chapter 6, “Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring,” describes how to configure
high and low thresholds for Fabric Watch event monitoring for SFP, Fabric, Performance, and
Security classes using the thConfig command.
• Chapter 7, “Port Monitoring,” describes how to configure high and low thresholds, buffers,
triggers, and actions on specified ports using the portThConfig command.