User guide

Fabric Watch Enhancements

Switch Status Policy enhancements

In Fabric OS 7.0.0x, the switch status policy of Fabric Watch has been enhanced as follows:

• The new component Error Ports is introduced in the switch status policy to monitor ports that

are segmented and disabled due to reasons such as security violations and port fencing.

• The unit for thresholds (both default and user defined) of Marginal, Faulty, Error Ports, and

Missing SFPs are changed to the percentage of the current number of physical ports present

in the switch at a given instance of time, rather than the absolute number of physical ports

that a switch can support. The total number of physical ports accounted in the switch status

policy during threshold calculation excludes FCoE /VE ports/Internal Ports.

Support for multiple email recipients for Fabric Watch Events

The Fabric Watch email alert feature notifies the user of events through a configured email address.

In pre-Fabric OS 7.0.0a releases, Fabric Watch allowed users to configure a single email recipient

for each class to receive the email alerts. In Fabric OS 7.0.0x, this feature is enhanced to configure

multiple email recipients. A maximum of five recipients per class can be configured using the

fwMailCfg command.

Advanced SFP monitoring based on SFP type

In Fabric OS 7.0.0x Fabric Watch can monitor voltage, current, RXP (receive power), TXP (transmit

power), temperature and operational hours of 16 Gbps SFP+. Fabric Watch monitors voltage,

temperature, RXP, and current for the 16 Gbps QSFP media. Fabric Watch monitors voltage,

temperature, RXP, TXP and current for the 10 Gbps FC SFP+.

Fabric Watch applies sfptype based thresholds for SFP monitoring. If Fabric Watch does not

find the SFP’s sfptype in its threshold database, it applies pre-Fabric OS 7.0.0a thresholds on

the SFP.

NOTE: By default, Fabric Watch monitoring is disabled on 16 Gbps SFP+, 10 Gbps SFP+, and

16 Gbps QSFP. Advanced sfptype monitoring can be enabled on these SFPs using the new

command thmonitor.

SFP monitored as a FRU (Field Replaceable Unit)

In Fabric OS 7.0.0x, Fabric Watch has been enhanced to monitor SFPs as FRUs (Field Replaceable

Units). If a FRU state changes, Fabric Watch sends an email or generates a RASlog message.

Users can configure email or RASlog actions for each FRU state using the fwFruCfg CLI.

Additional Fabric Watch Enhancements

• Pause and Continue monitoring functionality is provided to monitor specific components at

an element level granularity in Fabric OS 7.0.0x. This feature allows users to stop or start

monitoring of a set of thresholds related to certain class, area, and index.

• Thresholds for Packet loss area of VE port class can be configured to a real number up to two

decimal places (0.00 to 100.00).

• All parameters under port monitoring and SFP monitoring are not monitored on ports without

SFPs. Only voltage, temperature, and power-on-hours parameters of SFPs are monitored for

offline ports (where SFPs are physically present but ports are offline).

• Fabric Watch supports monitoring End-to-End and Frame monitor classes on Access Gateway

platforms.

• The fwconfigure and fwshow CLIs are not supported in Fabric OS 7.0.0x.

• Second time base and changed event are not supported in Fabric OS 7.0.0x. If any of this

is configured, then the upgrade to Fabric OS 7.0.0x is blocked.