Brocade Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 13)

Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Overview
● MAPS overview ..............................................................................................................13
● MAPS license requirements............................................................................................14
● MAPS configuration files................................................................................................. 14
● MAPS interoperability with other features....................................................................... 14
● Restrictions on MAPS monitoring................................................................................... 15
● Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations for MAPS.........................................15
● Fabric Watch to MAPS migration ................................................................................... 16
MAPS overview
The Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) is an optional storage area network (SAN) health
monitor supported on all switches running Fabric OS 7.2.0 or later that allows you to enable each switch
to constantly monitor itself for potential faults and automatically alerts you to problems before they
become costly failures.
MAPS tracks a variety of SAN fabric metrics and events. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, and
environmental parameters enables early fault detection and isolation as well as performance
measurements.
MAPS provides a set of predefined monitoring policies that allow you to immediately use MAPS on
activation. Refer to
Predefined policies on page 44 for information on using these policies.
In addition, MAPS provides customizable monitoring thresholds. These allow you to configure specific
groups of ports or other elements so that they share a common threshold value. You can configure
MAPS to provide notifications before problems arise, for example, when network traffic through a port is
approaching the bandwidth limit. MAPS lets you define how often to check each switch and fabric
measure and specify notification thresholds. Whenever fabric measures exceed these thresholds,
MAPS automatically provides notification using several methods, including e-mail messages, SNMP
traps, and log entries. Refer to
MAPS groups overview on page 35, MAPS rules overview on page
50, and MAPS policies overview on page 43 for information on using these features.
The MAPS dashboard provides you with the ability to view in a quick glance what is happening on the
switch, and helps administrators dig deeper to see details of exactly what is happening on the switch
(for example, the kinds of errors, the error count, and so on). Refer to
MAPS dashboard overview on
page 75 for more information.
MAPS provides a seamless migration of all customized Fabric Watch thresholds to MAPS, thus allowing
you to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of MAPS. MAPS provides additional advanced
monitoring, such as monitoring for the same error counters across different time periods, or having
more than two thresholds for any error counters. MAPS also provides support for you to monitor the
statistics provided by the Flow Monitor feature of Flow Vision. Refer to
Differences between Fabric
Watch and MAPS configurations on page 17 and Fabric Watch to MAPS migration on page 16 for
details.
Activating MAPS is a chassis-specific process, and you can activate only one chassis at a time. On a
given chassis there can be multiple logical switches. Activating MAPS enables it for all logical switches
in the chassis, however each logical switch can have its own MAPS configuration.
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