Finisar Brocade Fabric Watch manual End-to-End, Filter, Class Area Description

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Using Fabric Watch

Monitors ALPA devices of Loop ports (currently CRC error of

ALPA device only).

End-to-End

1 - Monitors transmitting performance predefined by the SID-DID pair. Configurable with either telnet commands or Web Tools at run time.

2 - Monitors receiving performance predefined by the SID-DID pair. Configurable with either telnet commands or Web Tools at run time.

3 - Monitors CRC errors of prefedined SID-DID pair. Configurable with either telnet commands or Web Tools at run time.

The configuration information of the End-to-End class is lost when the switch is rebooted or fast booted.

Note: The End-to-End class is only available if the optional Performance Monitoring license has been purchased and turned on.

Note: The EE filter is preconfigured with either a telnet command or Web Tools at run time.

Filter

Monitors the filter counter for a given port. Provides the following types of information about the filter hit:

1 - Read command

2 - SCSI or IP traffic

3 - SCSI Read/Write

Note: The Filter class is only available if the optional Performance Monitoring license has been purchased and turned on.

Note: The type of filter is predefined by configuring it with either a telnet command or Web Tools at run time.

In addition, each class is subdivided into areas, as listed in the following table.

Table 3-1	Fabric Watch Classes and Areas
Class		Area	Description
Fabric		Loss of E_Port	Monitors E_Port status.
		Fabric reconfiguration	Monitors fabric configuration
			changes.
		Segmentation changes	Monitors segmentation changes.
		Domain ID changes	Monitors forcible DOMAIN ID
			changes.

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