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

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 9-3
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Using Change Management Profiles
9
Port Status • Configured/Disabled
• Online/Offline
• Note: Down status is not reported.
Security
1
• Enabled/Disabled
• Policy changes
Switches
• Added/Removed
• Configuration changes
1,3
ACL • Strict fabric-wide consistency policy (SFWC) added/removed/
changed
• SCC and DCC policies added/removed/changed (in SFWC mode
only)
iSCSI
• CHAP user ID added/removed
• Virtual targets added/removed
• Discovery Domains (DDs) and Discovery Domain Sets (DDsets)
added/removed/changed
1. If a fabric includes a SilkWorm AP7420 as a seed switch, information about these elements are not retrieved (not
supported by the SilkWorm AP7420).
2. For AD-aware or AD-enabled fabrics, zoning information is collected from AD0 and is used for the change
management snapshot and change reports; that is, change management for zoning is available for the ROOT zone
database only.
3. If a fabric includes a SilkWorm AP7420 as a member switch (not the seed switch), switch configuration changes
are not reported for the SilkWorm AP7420. Security policy change information for the entire fabric might not be
collected if the SilkWorm AP7420 is the first object Fabric Manager gets from API.
Table 9-2 Change Management Limitations
Change Description
Time changes If the current system time on the Fabric Manager server is changed to a time that
is after the end time of a scheduled change management check, the change report
will not run.
Adding switches If a switch is added to a fabric after a change management profile is created, the
profile settings are not applied to the switch until you log in to it.
Segmented
fabrics
If a fabric segments into separate fabrics, the original fabric retains all of the
change management profiles and continues to run the scheduled profiles and
report any missing switches, devices, and so on. However, the new, smaller
fabrics that are created for the segmented switches do not have any change
management profiles or reports.
Merging fabrics If two fabrics both have change management profiles associated with them, and
you merge the fabrics, the change management profile for the fabric that was
discovered first is applied to the merged fabric.
Logical switch
groups
Change management profiles cannot be applied to logical switch groups.
Table 9-1 Change Management Profile Monitored Elements (Continued)
Monitored Element Description