Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

7-8 Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Monitoring Alerts
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Acknowledging Alerts
The Acked column in the Alerts tab indicates whether an alert is acknowledged.
When you acknowledge an alert, your user name is displayed in the Acked By column of the Alerts tab.
This lets other Fabric Manager users on the same server know that you have already acknowledged the
alert and are aware of the issue. Once an alert is acknowledged, it cannot be unacknowledged.
You can acknowledge alerts regardless of switch role.
To acknowledge alerts
1. Display the alerts for the SAN, fabric, switch, or switch group, as described in “Monitoring Alerts”
on page 7-1.
2. Select the alert you want to acknowledge.
3. Click Ack.
The Acked column value changes from No to Yes, the Acked By column value displays your user
name, and the Acked Time column value displays the time that you acknowledged the alert.
Resolving Alerts
The Resolved column in the Alerts tab indicates whether an alert is resolved.
You cannot manually resolve Fabric Manager alerts. All alerts within Fabric Manager are automatically
resolved either when the issue no longer exists or the baseline has changed so that the alert is no longer
valid. See Table 7-1 on page 7-4 for information about alert resolution scenarios.
You can enable automatic deletion of resolved alerts after a period of time using the procedure
described in “Deleting Alerts,” next.
Deleting Alerts
You can delete Fabric Manager alerts manually from the Alerts tab or you can enable automatic alert
deletion. By default, automatic alert deletion is disabled.
Deleting Alerts Manually
You can delete only alerts that have been resolved. Any resolved alerts are identified with a Yes value in
the Resolved column of the Alerts tab.
To delete alerts manually
1. Display the alerts for the SAN, fabric, switch, or switch group, as described in “Monitoring Alerts”
on page 7-1.
2. Right-click the alert you want to delete and click Delete from the context menu.
Use Shift-click or Ctrl-click to select multiple alerts.
The alert is deleted and removed from the Alerts table.