Brocade Network Advisor SAN + IP User Manual v12.3.0 - Manual (Page 2055)

Brocade Network Advisor SAN + IP User Manual 1983
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Chapter
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Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite
In this chapter
• Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983
• MAPS interoperability with other features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986
• MAPS category, object, and measure hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1990
• MAPS monitoring categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1993
• MAPS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001
• MAPS rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003
• MAPS conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003
• MAPS actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004
• MAPS groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2021
• MAPS violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2031
• MAPS events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2033
• MAPS integration with other features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2036
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite overview
The Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) is an optional storage area network (SAN) health
monitor that allows you to enable each switch to constantly monitor its SAN fabric for potential
faults and automatically alerts you to problems long before they become costly failures.
MAPS tracks a variety of SAN fabric measures and events. Monitoring fabric wide events, ports,
and environmental parameters enables early fault detection and isolation as well as performance
measurement. You can configure fabric measures and alert thresholds on an individual port and
group basis.
MAPS provides customizable monitoring thresholds. You can configure MAPS to provide
notifications before problems arise, such as reporting when network traffic through a port is
approaching the bandwidth limit. This information enables you to perform preemptive network
maintenance, such as trunking or zoning, and avoid potential network failures.
MAPS enables you to 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.