Brocade Fabric Watch is an optional fabric health monitor for Brocade switching environments. Fabric Watch enables each Brocade switch, director, and backbone to constantly watch its fabric for potential faults-and automatically alert network managers to problems before they become costly failures.
Fabric Watch tracks a variety of fabric elements, events, and counters. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, transceivers, and environmental parameters enables early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement. For example, the Port Fencing feature set thresholds for various link events. When link events increase above the threshold, Port Fencing will turn off the link to prevent it from compromising fabric integrity.
Unlike many systems monitors, Fabric Watch is easy to configure. Administrators can select custom fabric elements and alert thresholds - or they can choose preconfigured settings. In addition, it is easy to integrate Fabric Watch with popular enterprise systems management solutions.
Highlights
- Increase availability and avoid costly failures by monitoring
numerous fabric and switch elements
- Receive automatic event notifications when switch and fabric
elements exceed thresholds
- Quickly identify and isolate faults
- Monitor and optimize fabric-wide performance
- Easily integrate Fabric Watch with enterprise systems management
solutions
- Enhance manageability by mitigating the need for multiple,
vendor-specific monitoring tools
