Brocade Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface.....................................................................................................................................7
Document conventions......................................................................................7
Text formatting conventions.................................................................. 7
Command syntax conventions.............................................................. 7
Notes, cautions, and warnings.............................................................. 8
Brocade resources............................................................................................ 9
Contacting Brocade Technical Support.............................................................9
Document feedback........................................................................................ 10
About This Document.............................................................................................................. 11
Supported hardware and software.................................................................. 11
What's new in this document...........................................................................12
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Overview .........................................................................13
MAPS overview ..............................................................................................13
MAPS license requirements............................................................................14
MAPS configuration files................................................................................. 14
Deleting a user-created MAPS configuration file................................ 14
MAPS interoperability with other features....................................................... 14
Restrictions on MAPS monitoring................................................................... 15
Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations for MAPS.........................15
Firmware upgrade considerations.......................................................15
Firmware downgrade considerations.................................................. 16
Fabric Watch to MAPS migration ................................................................... 16
Differences between Fabric Watch and MAPS configurations............17
MAPS Setup and Operation.....................................................................................................19
Initial MAPS setup...........................................................................................19
Enabling MAPS using Fabric Watch rules.......................................... 19
Enabling MAPS without using Fabric Watch rules.............................. 20
Monitoring across different time windows....................................................... 21
Setting the active MAPS policy....................................................................... 22
Pausing MAPS monitoring.............................................................................. 23
Resuming MAPS monitoring........................................................................... 23
MAPS Elements and Categories ..............................................................................................25
MAPS structural elements...............................................................................25
MAPS monitoring categories ..........................................................................25
Port Health.......................................................................................... 26
FRU Health......................................................................................... 27
Security Violations ..............................................................................28
Fabric State Changes......................................................................... 29
Switch Resource ................................................................................ 30
Traffic Performance.............................................................................31
FCIP Health ........................................................................................32
Fabric Performance Impact.................................................................32
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