Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide (53-1000243-01, November 2006)

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 3-21
Publication Number: 53-1000243-01
Configuring Switch Status Policy
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See the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide for more details about configuring status events using Web
Tools.
Step 1: Plan and Define Your Switch Status
Policy
Before entering the switchStatusPolicySet command, plan your switch status policy. How many fans
must fail before you consider a switch Marginal? Look at the needs of your system along with the factors
that affect its monitors. Table 3-12 lists the monitors in a switch and identifies the factors that affect their
health. Note that not all switches use the monitors listed in Table 3-12.
Table 3-12 Switch Status Policy Monitor Health Factors
Monitor Health Factors
Power Supplies Power supply thresholds, absent or failed power supply.
For SilkWorm 24000 and 48000, can also occur when Power Supplies are not in
the correct slot for redundancy.
Temperatures Temperature thresholds, faulty temperature sensors.
Fans Fan thresholds, faulty fans.
WWN Faulty WWN card (applies to modular switches).
CP Switch does not have a redundant CP (applies to modular switches).
Blade Faulty blades (applies to modular switches).
Flash Flash thresholds.
Marginal Ports Port, E-Port, optical port, and copper port thresholds. Whenever these thresholds
are persistently high, the port is Marginal.
Faulty Ports Hardware-related port faults.
Missing SFPs Ports that are missing SFP media.