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

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Chapter

Activating and Accessing Fabric Watch

In this chapter

• Activating Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

• Accessing Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Activating Fabric Watch

Fabric Watch must be activated on each switch individually before use.

NOTE

If the Administrative Domain feature is enabled on the switch, the local switch must be a member

of the current Admin Domain in order for the Fabric Watch feature to be fully usable:

- CLI: Fabric Watch commands cannot be used, except the fwPortDetailShow command. It will still

show filtered output in Admin Domain context even if the local switch is not a member of the current

domain.

- Web Tools: Web Tools allows view-only access to all threshold configuration values even if the local

switch is not a member of the current domain. However, the thresholds can be changed only if the

local switch is a member of the current Admin Domain.

For more information on the Administrative Domain feature, see the Fabric OS Administrator’s

Guide.

Use telnet or Web Tools to activate Fabric Watch, as described next. Web Tools offers a user-friendly

graphical interface that most users find convenient.

After it is activated, configure Fabric Watch to monitor your system and its health, as described in

Chapter 3, “Configuring Fabric Watch”.

ACTIVATING WITH TELNET

To activate Fabric Watch using telnet commands:

1. Log in as admin.

2. Type licenseShow at the prompt to view a list of activated licenses.

swd21:admin> licenseshow

SedQyzdQbdTfeRzZ:

Web license

Zoning license

bedR9dyyzzcfeSAW:

Fabric license

Scy9SbRQd9VdzATb:

Fabric Watch license