Fabric Watch Monitoring in a DRM Environment - Application Notes

Fabric Watch Overview
8 Application Notes – Fabric Watch Monitoring in a DRM Environment
Table 1: Fabric Watch Classes and Areas
Class Area Area Description
Fabric (fabric) Loss of E_Port (ED) Monitors E_Port status
Fabric reconfiguration (FR) Monitors fabric reconfiguration changes
Segmentation changes (SC) Monitors segmentation changes
Domain ID changes (DI) Monitors forcible Domain ID changes
Zoning changes (ZC) Monitors changes to currently enabled zoning
configuration
Fabric to Quickloop changes
(FQ)
Monitors ports to detect changes from fabric to
Quickloop or Quickloop to fabric
Fabric logins (FL) Monitors the number of host device fabric logins
(flogi)
GBIC change (GS) Monitors insertion/removal of smart GBICs
Environment (env) Temperature (Temp) Monitors switch temperature
Fan (Fan) Monitors fan speed
Power supply (Ps) Monitors status of each power supply
Port (Port)
E_Port (eport)
Copper F/FL_Port
(fcuport)
Optical F/FL_Port
(fopport)
Link failure count (link) Monitors link failure count for each port per time
interval
Loss of synchronization count
(Sync)
Monitors port synchronization loss errors per
time interval
Loss of signal count (signal) Monitors port signal loss errors per time interval
Primitive sequence protocol error
(protoErr)
Monitors number of protocol areas per time
interval
Invalid transmission word
(words)
Monitors number of port invalid words per time
interval
Invalid CRC count (CRC) Monitors number of CRC errors per time
interval
Receive performance (RXPerf) Monitors port receive performance rate
Transmit performance (TxPerf) Monitors port transmit performance rate
State changes (State) Monitors port state changes
SFP (gbic) Temperature (Temp) Monitors GBIC temperature
Receiver power (RXP) Monitors GBIC receiver power
Transmitter power (TXP) Monitors GBIC transmitter power
Current (Crnt) Monitors GBIC current
Performance
Monitor
- ALPA (perfALPA)
- End-to-End
(perfEE)
- Filter (perfFilt)
CRC counter (CRC) Monitors the number of CRC errors that occur
(for ALPA or for a SID-DID pair) per time interval
Transmit performance (TX) Monitors transmit rate of a SID-DID pair
Receive performance (RX) Monitors receive rate of a SID-DID pair
Filter frame counter (frame) Monitors the filter counter for a given port for a
Fibre Channel word. Information provided about
filter hit is read command, SCSI or IP traffic, and
SCSI read/write