Brocade Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 15)

Interactions between Fabric OS features and MAPS TABLE 3
Feature MAPS interaction
Virtual Fabrics When using Virtual Fabrics, different logical switches in a chassis can have different MAPS
configurations.
Fabric Watch MAPS cannot coexist with Fabric Watch. Refer to Fabric Watch to MAPS migration on page
16 for information on this migration.
High Availability MAPS configuration settings are maintained across a High Availability (HA) failover or HA
reboot; however, MAPS will restart monitoring after a HA failover or HA reboot and the cached
MAPS statistics are not retained.
Admin Domains MAPS is supported on switches that have Admin Domains. There can only be one MAPS
configuration that is common to all the Admin Domains on the chassis. Users with Administrator
privileges can modify the MAPS configuration from any Admin Domain.
ATTENTION
If MAPS is enabled, do not download configuration files that have Admin Domains defined in
them, as this may cause unpredictable behavior.
Restrictions on MAPS monitoring
The following restrictions apply globally to MAPS monitoring.
• Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers on simulated mode (SIM) ports cannot be monitored
using MAPS.
• If a SCN pertaining to the FRU (such as PS_FAULTY, or FAN_FAULTY), occurs before the
dashboard starts monitoring then it may not be shown in the dashboard.
Refer to Restrictions on Flow Vision flow monitoring on page 72 for additional restrictions on
monitoring Flow Vision flows.
Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations for MAPS
The following firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations apply to the Monitoring and Alerting
Policy Suite (MAPS) in Fabric OS 7.3.0.
Firmware upgrade considerations
There are no direct upgrade considerations. However, MAPS Fabric Performance Impact monitoring
and the legacy bottleneck monitoring feature are mutually exclusive. If the legacy bottleneck monitoring
feature was enabled before the upgrade, MAPS will not monitor fabric performance. Refer to
Fabric
performance monitoring using MAPS on page 85 for additional information.
Restrictions on MAPS monitoring
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