Monitoring Brocade switches, directors using OpStor

• Brocade SilkWorm switches
  • SilkWorm 4100
  • SilkWorm 200E
  • SilkWorm 3850
  • SilkWorm 3250
  • SilkWorm 4012
  • SilkWorm 3016
  • SilkWorm 3014
• Brocade silkworm  directors
  • SilkWorm 24000
  • SilkWorm 48000
    

• Inventory information for switch & switch ports
  
• Switch ports monitoring
• Reports:
  
• Switch zoning configuration report
  
• Availability reports for switch & switch ports
  
• Performance reports for switch Ports
  • Bandwidth Utilization
  • Errors
  • Rx Traffic
  • Rx Utilization
  • Tx Traffic
  • Tx Utilization
• Switch summary reports
  
• Real time graphs for trouble shooting
• SNMP trap based alarms
• Launch of telnet/applet brocade client for configuration
  

• Ensure SNMP agent is running in the Brocade silkworm switch / director.
• OpStor uses snmp port 161 and read community 'public' for discovery. If your settings are different , please provide the same in the OpStor web-client while adding Switch.
• Ensure that the IP of the server running OpStor is included in the the SNMP access list of the Brocade Switch.
  • The following command can be used to know the snmp community & access list configurations in brocade silkworm switches.
    Run the command  agtcfgdefault via CLI  console of the switch.
    Details: Refer the "Brocade Fabric OS Reference Manual"
• Register OpStor server IP address as a trap destination for the Brocade Silkworm Switch.
• Use agtcfgset command in the Brocade Fabric OS command line interface to specify the Trap Recipient.
  Details: Refer the "Brocade Fabric OS Reference Manual"

• Navigate to 'Admin tab' --> 'Manage Storage Devices' link in OpStor Webclient
• Default 'None' option will be selected
• Provide the IP Address of Brocade switch /director  IP in the "IP Address' text fields
• If the read community is other than "public" , choose 'SNMP' option and specify it in the "community" field
• Click "Add Device'.