Monitoring Brocade san switches

[inex]

So it means that there is functionality in the switch os itself that can send out mail if f.ex a power supply fail. Or do I need a tool to pick up info from the switch and this tool will send out a mail.

-inex

[Bill Rothanburg]

The switch can send email by itself. You will need to configure DNS and possibly a mail gateway.

[inex]

Is it possible to sort which messages the switch should forward? The customer probably do not want a lot of informational messages.

-inex

[Bill Rothanburg]

These can be tuned in Fabric Watch. Check the Fabric Watch and Admin guides for your version of FabricOS.

[marsh_1]

hi,

if you are monitoring a number of these and you wish to have much more control over the events and alerts that are sent out - i would suggest as have others here that you look at HP SIM or IBM DIRECTOR depending whether your customer has a preference, both are free and can be used to monitor most infrastructure elements (servers, storage systems etc).
this would centralize and simplify management of these switches.

HTH

links for both products :-

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/director/downloads/

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/download.html

[inex]

Thanks a lot to everybody

-inex

[DRXEON]

Would you please let ma know if you have any templates for HP swithces for Cacti ?