Fabric details

View detailed information about the components and resources that are associated with a fabric.

To view the details page for a fabric, click Resources > Fabrics. Then right-click a fabric in the list and select View Details.

General

Click an item to view key information about the fabric.

Overview

Most Active Ports Receive: Use the Most Active Ports Receive charts to view the performance of ports with the most receive data over the past 24 hours. There are two charts in this carousel: Receive Data Rate, and Receive Bandwidth. Click the arrows to cycle through the charts.; Use the chart information to quickly determine which ports that are receiving the most data. Hover over the chart lines to view the details of specific data points.
Most Active Ports Send: Use the Most Active Ports Send charts to view the performance of ports with the most send data in a fabric over the past 24 hours. There are two charts in this carousel: Send Data Rate, and Send Bandwidth. Click the arrows to cycle through the charts.; Use the chart information to quickly determine which ports are sending the most data. Hover over the chart lines to view the details of specific data points.
Port Congestion: Use the Port Congestion charts to view the performance of ports with the highest congestion over the past 24 hours. There are three charts in this carousel: Port Congestion Index, Zero Buffer Credit Rate, and Zero Buffer Credit Percentage. Click the arrows to cycle through the charts.; Use the chart information to quickly determine which ports have the highest congestion. Hover over the chart lines to view the details of specific data points.
Most Problematic Ports: Use the Most Problematic Ports chart to view the performance of ports with the largest number of errors over the past 24 hours.; Use the chart information to quickly determine the ports with the largest number of errors. Hover over the chart lines to view the details of specific data points.

Tip:

The charts show performance data that was collected in the last 24 hours. If no performance data was collected during that period the charts will be blank.
To view different charts, click the name of a chart and select the chart that you want to view. Click the arrow icons to cycle through the different charts that are available for each chart type.
You can choose to display the charts in different positions on the page. For example, you can display the Zero Buffer Credit Rate and Zero Buffer Credit Percentage charts for Port Congestion at the same time in different positions on the page.
If you do not clear browser cookies between login sessions, the selected charts are automatically displayed in the same positions the next time that you log on to the GUI and view the details of the resource.
The chart selections that you make in the details of one fabric will be applied to all other fabrics when you view their details.

Properties

View the attributes of the fabric, including information about its status and connectivity.

Alerts and Alert Definitions

View the alerts that were generated when certain conditions were detected on a fabric on the Alerts page. Alerts are generated when the conditions that are specified on the Alert Definitions page are detected.

Use alert policies to manage the alert definitions and notification settings that apply to fabrics. You can view, set, or create the alert policy for a chassis from the Alert Definitions page. The tasks that you can do depend on whether the fabric is managed by an alert policy. You can also create and assign alert policies from the Alert Policies page.

Alert policy status	Tasks available on Alert Definitions page
An alert policy is assigned	View the policy or set a different policy to manage the fabric. Click View Policy or Set Policy from the Policy Actions menu.
No alert policy is assigned	Set a policy to manage the fabric or create a policy from the existing alert definitions. Click Set Policy or Create Policy from the Policy Actions menu. If you do not want to use a policy, you can define alerts for fabric by clicking Edit Alerts Defintions.