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

[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 ?