# Fabric Switch Management

ManageEngine **OpManager** manages Fabric switches based on SNIA's standard Fabric switch management MIBs. In addition, vendor specific MIBs and APIs are used to provide fine-grained monitoring capabilities. **OpManager** automatically discovers fabric switches in your environment.

**OpManager** provides out-of-box reports spanning inventory, performance and availability as given below.

## Inventory Reports

![sanswitch-port1](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sanswitch-port1.png)

![sanswitch-shedule-report1](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sanswitch-shedule-report1.png)

Once the Fabric Switches are discovered, an additional detailed scan is performed to capture the complete set of asset, capacity, performance, and configuration details of the switches.

- Fabric Switches summary
- Switch Port details
- WWN - Interconnect information
- Zoning information
- Switch availability reports

## Visualization

![sanswitch-availability12](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/sanswitch-availability12.png)

- Topological map shows switches and their interconnections.
- Link details table shows link name, source, and destination.
- Color-coded icons depict switch and interconnection status.
- Drill-down views - Switch Sub-map views

## Alarm Management

![sanswitch-interfaces1](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sanswitch-interfaces1.png)

**OpManager** monitors status of switches and the ports and raises alarms whenever there is a change in the state. SNMP traps from the SAN switch are also captured and appropriate alarm is generated.

- Captures Switch & Port Status Change Notifications.
- Management functions such as assign owner, annotate, clear, and delete.
- Reports alarms to administrators through email or SMS messages based on customizable rules.
- Escalates unattended alarms to higher ups based on pre-defined rules.

## Real-time Graphs

![sanswitch-graph1](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sanswitch-graph1.png)

With **OpManager**, one can perform port level troubleshooting and diagnostics using non-intrusive, SNMP based live graphs capability. Real-time data is collected from the ports and plotted in graphs.

- Closely monitor specific port data – live, for brief period, for troubleshooting.
- SNMP based, non-intrusive, Fibre Channel port level data collection.
- Queries the Fibre Channel statistics and graphs each port on the switch.
- Plots graphs with live data.
- Auto refresh GUI to show the update.

## Port Performance Reports

![sanswitch-shedule-report1](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sanswitch-shedule-report1.png)

The following Port Performance statistics are computed for each port at periodic intervals and reports generated to provide trend analysis.

- Rx Throughput
- Tx Throughput
- Total Throughput
- Rx traffic
- Tx traffic
- Errors

Reports of Top N performing switches / ports and Top N available switches / ports based on the above parameters can also be generated.

Further, comparison reports of ports based on the above parameters are also available.

- Sends daily and weekly alarm reports.
- Helps IT team analyze trends, utilization, etc.
- Reports to identify ports that are over or under utilized.

## OpManager supports SAN switches from the following vendors.

- Brocade Silkworm Series
- McData Sphereon Series
- EMC Connectrix Series
- Cisco MDS Series
- QLogic SANbox Series
- HP SAN Switches
- LightSand Switches