Fabric watch threshold components, Fabric watch classes, areas, and elements, Classes – Brocade Fabric Watch Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual
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Fabric Watch Threshold Components
Fabric Watch classes, areas, and elements
Fabric Watch uses a hierarchical organization to track the network device information it monitors. There
is a class, area, and element associated with every monitored behavior. Classes are the highest level in
the system, subdivided into one or more areas. Areas contain one or more elements. The following
sections explain this hierarchy and its application within Fabric Watch.
Classes
Classes are wide groupings of similar fabric devices or fabric data.
on page 32 describes
the classes into which Fabric Watch groups all switch and fabric elements.
In some cases, classes are divided into subclasses. This additional level in the hierarchy increases the
flexibility of setting monitoring thresholds. You can use subclasses to add additional event monitoring to
fabric objects that meet the requirements of a subclass.
For example, ports connected to another switch can be monitored using both the Port class and E_Port
subclass. You can configure general port monitoring using the Port class and monitoring specific to a
type of port using the E_Port class. Ports connected to another switch can trigger events based on
either of these configurations. Ports that are not connected to another switch are not affected by the
additional monitoring configured into the E_Port class.
Class areas
While classes represent large groupings of information, areas represent the information that Fabric
Watch monitors. For example, switch temperature, one of the values tracked by Fabric Watch, is an
area within the class “Environment”.
For detailed information about how to configure areas, including recommended threshold and action
settings for the classes listed in
on page 32, refer to one of the following chapters:
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Fabric, Security, SFP, and Performance Monitoring
Fabric class, Security class, SFP class, and Performance class areas and actions are configured
using the thConfig command.
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on page 65.
The physical port and its subclass areas and actions are configured using the portThConfig
command.
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on page 87.
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