Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite
The SANnav Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) feature allows you to configure and monitor policies on discovered switches in a fabric.
The Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) is an optional storage area network (SAN) health monitor that allows you to enable each switch to constantly monitor its SAN fabric for potential faults and automatically alert you to problems long before they become costly failures.
MAPS tracks a variety of SAN fabric measures and events. Monitoring fabric-wide events, ports, and environmental parameters enables early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement. You can configure fabric measures and alert thresholds on an individual port and group basis.
For Fabric OS devices, MAPS provides customizable monitoring thresholds. You can configure MAPS to provide notifications before problems arise, such as reporting when network traffic through a port is approaching the bandwidth limit. This information enables you to perform preemptive network maintenance, such as trunking or zoning, and avoid potential network failures.
MAPS enables you to define how often to check each switch and fabric measure and specify notification thresholds. Whenever fabric measures exceed these thresholds, MAPS automatically provides notification using several methods, including e-mail messages, SNMP traps, and log entries.
Note: An active and valid Fabric Vision license is required to configure and view MAPS policies.
MAPS must be already enabled on the switch. The MAPS enable function is not supported in SANnav.
MAPS is supported on switches running Fabric OS 7.4.0 and later. It is enabled by default on switches running Fabric OS 8.x and later.
MAPS configuration requires read and write permissions to the MAPS Management privilege.
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