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

8 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide

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Configuration decisions

Before you begin an implementation, make some decisions surrounding the following major

configuration tasks.

Monitoring

Do you want to monitor all class areas, or implement the monitoring in incremental stages? If you

monitor class areas incrementally, you should configure Fabric Watch to monitor the classes in the

following order:

• Step 1. Monitor Fabric class areas

• Domain ID changes

• Fabric logins

• Fabric reconfiguration

• Loss of E_Port

• Segmentation changes

• SFP state changes

• Zoning changes

• Step 2: Monitor Port class areas:

• Invalid CRCs

• Invalid Transmission Words

• Link Failure Count

• Loss of Signal Count

• Loss of Sync Count

• Packet Loss

• Primitive Sequence Protocol Error

• Receive (RX) Performance

• Step 3: Monitor FRU class areas:

• Slot

• Power supply

• Fan

• WWN

Refer to Chapter 3, “Fabric Watch components,” for a description of all configurable Fabric Watch

classes and areas.