Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000438-01, June 2007)

Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide 5
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Fabric Watch components
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Environment class areas
Table 2 lists and describes the Product Name areas in the Environment class.
NOTE
The fans in the Brocade 200E do not return RPM values, so there is no fan class area for it.
Fabric class areas
Table 3 lists Product Name areas in the Fabric class and describes each area.
TABLE 2 Environment class areas
Area Description
Fan Refers to the speed of the fans inside the switch, in revolutions per minute. It is important that
the fans spin quickly enough to keep the ambient temperature from rising to levels at which
switch damage might occur.
Power Supply Monitors whether power supplies within the switch are on, off, present, absent, or faulty.
Product Name monitors power supplies to be sure that power is always available to a switch.
Temperature Refers to the ambient temperature inside the switch, in degrees Celsius. Temperature sensors
monitor the switch in case the temperature rises to levels at which damage to the switch might
occur.
TABLE 3 Fabric class areas
Area Description
Domain ID Changes Monitors forced domain ID changes. Forced domain ID changes occur when there is a
conflict of domain IDs in a single fabric and the principal switch has to assign another
domain ID to a switch.
Fabric Logins Occurs when ports and devices initialize with the fabric.
Fabric Reconfiguration Tracks the number of reconfigurations of the fabric. Fabric reconfiguration occurs when:
• Two fabrics with the same domain ID are connected.
• Two fabrics are joined.
• An E_Port or VE_Port has gone offline.
• A principal link has segmented from the fabric.