Brocade Network Advisor IP User Manual 1101
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Policy monitor overview 36
Some devices can function as both initiator and target. If the application finds this type of
device as one of the active zone members, this device port is treated as both initiator and
target:
-Target (storage port) — The application counts the number of initiator ports zoned to this
storage port.
-Initiator — The application counts this device as an initiator port for other storage ports in
the same zone.
Rule Violation Fix — If the policy monitor report shows a violation, the Administrator must make
sure the initiator port limit is under the recommended number.
Check zones that do not contain any online member — This fabric policy monitor enables you to
identify zones in which all zone members are offline.
NOTE
The application does not count end devices which are missing from the fabric and D,PI zone
members (online or offline) as online zone members. The application only counts zones with
online WWN members as online zone members.
Rule Violation Fix — If the policy monitor report shows a violation, you can use the Zoning dialog
box (Configure > Zoning > Fabric) to bring the devices back online (refer to “Zoning” on
page637).
For example, if you use the policy monitor to determine when all WWN members in a zone are
offline, you can fix the violation through the Zoning dialog box by locating the target fabric and
bringing the devices back online.
Check that all profiles are the same on each RBridge in an Ethernet fabric — This fabric policy
monitor enables you to determine if all RBridge profiles in a Ethernet fabric are the same. The
first check is to determine if the name matches. If the name matches, policy monitor checks
the other profile content (such as VLAN, QoS, and Security), and then the MAC associations.
A port profile is a collection of network policies supported by the switch. By configuring port
profiles on the VDX switch, the virtual machine (VM) that is configured on the virtual network
interface card (vNIC) can migrate to any other port on that switch, but still retain the same
network policies.
Use this check during VM migration to make sure that the migrated VM behaves the same way
on the next host.
Rule Violation Fix — If the policy monitor report shows a violation, compare the port profiles
(refer to “Comparing port profiles” on page437) to find the mismatches and then fix the
discrepancies.
Switch and router policy monitors
Switch and router policy monitors enable you to set the following policy monitors on switches and
routers.