Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.3.0 (53-1001342-01, July 2009)

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Chapter

Port fencing

In this chapter

•Configuring port fencing using the fwConfigure command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

•Configuring port fencing using the portFencing command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Configuring port fencing using the fwConfigure command

The Port Fencing feature, which can be set for the Port class, E_Port class, and FOP_ Port class

only, is an optional procedure. The allowed threshold configuration settings are displayed on a

per-class basis. Although Port Fencing is displayed for other areas, such as RX Performance, for

which Port Fencing is not supported, you will not be able to set or apply the changes on such areas.

Refer to “Port fencing types” on page 111 for a list of port fencing types that are available in M-EOS

and Fabric OS v6.3.0.

NOTE

The following is an example of selecting the Port class with Invalid CRCs. With the exception of

step 1, the same steps are required to enable the E_Port or FOP_Port class, as well as each available

area for the selected class (described in step 4).

1. Type fwalarmsfilterset 1 to enable Fabric Watch alarms.

2. Navigate to a specific class and area with the fwConfigure command.

switch:admin> fwconfigure

1 : Environment class

2 : SFP class

3 : Port class

4 : Fabric class

5 : E-Port class

6 : F/FL Port (Optical) class

7 : Alpa Performance Monitor class

8 : EE Performance Monitor class

9 : Filter Performance Monitor class

10 : Security class

11 : Resource class

12 : Quit

Select a class => : (1..12) [12] 5

3. Type the number from the list that corresponds to the class that you want to configure. Select 3

for Port class, 5 for E_Port class, or 6 for F/FL Port (Optical) class.

For each class that you select, Fabric Watch provides a list of the areas of the class available

for configuration.