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Chapter
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System Monitoring
Table 36 lists the system monitoring (sysmon) features supported on Brocade FastIron devices.
These features are supported in the Layer 2 and full Layer 3 software images, except where
explicitly noted.
This chapter contains the following sections:
•Overview of system monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
•Configure system monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
•System monitoring on FCX and ICX devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
•System monitoring for Fabric Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
•System monitoring for Cross Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
•System monitoring for Packet Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Overview of system monitoring
System monitoring (sysmon) is a utility that runs as a background process and monitors
connections and components of the device for specific errors and logs them. It has a default policy
that controls the parameters that are monitored and actions to be taken if a fault is detected.
These policies include the type of errors, the threshold for errors to be logged, and the frequency of
checking for errors. You can use the CLI commands to configure these policies.
The sysmon utility monitors the hardware error registers to identify errors and failures. You can
configure the sysmon timer to define how frequently the sysmon utility queries the hardware error
registers. The data generated by the sysmon utility is written to either the sysmon internal log or to
the syslog.
TABLE 36 Supported system monitoring features
Feature FSX 800
FSX1600
1
1. Third generation modules
FCX ICX 6610 ICX 6430 ICX 6450
Fabric Adaptor errors YesNoNoNoNo
Packet Processor errors Yes No No No No
Cross Bar errors YesNoNoNoNo
Link errors No YesYesYesYes
ECC errors No YesYesYesYes
Sysmon Enhancements YesNoNoNoNo