Monitoring Brocade san switches

[inex]

Hi,

Anyone got a recommendation for a free tool which can be used for monitoring Brocade san switches. Customer wants alerts when fan, power, ftp modules etc failes.

-inex

[Terri Harris · Accepted solution]

Within the Brocade FOS you can configure SNMP and email alerts. So start with the Brocade itself.

[Steven Clementi]

Yep. Additionally, if you have HP SIM installed somewhere, you can have those alerts go to SIM and SIm can push out e-mails and stuff.

Steven

[DJMC]

Hi,
As far as I can remember you could monitor switches using ISEE.

D

[Steven Clementi]

Not exactly with ISEE, but with it's partner programs, WEBES and OSEM.

Both of these program s talk(ed) backed to HP SIM and/or ISEE.

For a simple configuration where ISEE might not be installed... HP SIM should work.

Steven

[inex]

My customer does not have ISEE/webs or HP sim.

-inex

[Terri Harris]

you were asking for a recommendation on a free tool. SIM (System Insight Manager) is a free tool.

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

[Bill Rothanburg]

Even without a Fabric Watch license, you still get basic hardware monitoring through the Fabric Watch facility, which can send SNMP traps and email.

Brocade switches can send log messages to a syslog server. You could combine this with a program that monitors the syslog on the server.

[IBaltay]

hi,
there is also the Cacti/Thomb tool, which allows you to continuously SNMP monitor (with the thresholds) all the switches and have it all in graphs and online...

[IBaltay]

hi,
sorry for the typo Cacti/Thold