Multi-Vendor Storage Management

• Storage Infrastructure discovery

  • Auto discovery uses SNMP, CLI , SNIA's SMI-S and vendor specific algorithms
  • Discovers storage devices such as RAIDs, tapelibraries, tape drives, FC switches, HBAs, and host servers.
  • Supports all major storage vendors devices.
  • End-to-end modeling of devices including sub components.
  • Supports discovery at runtime through web based GUI

• Asset Management

  • Up-to-date device summary
  • Administrators can key in details such as device location, vendor details, and technical support info
  • Complete physical and logical assets are monitored
  • Entire system resources like CPU, Disk, Memory and IO details are listed
  • HBA card details along with ports are listed
  • Device level problem report filing and maintenance

• Visualization

  • Topological map shows devices and their interconnections.
  • Link details table shows link name, source, and destination.
  • Color-coded icons depict device and interconnection status.
  • Drill-down views - sub-maps and device property views

• Fault Management

  • Captures sensor faults such as power supply, temperature, fan, battery, etc.
  • Captures status change notifications.
  • Management functions such as assign owner, annotate, clear, and delete.
  • Reports alarms to administrators through email or SMS based on customizable rules.
  • Escalates unattended alarms based on pre-defined rules

• Real Time 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

• Business Reporting

  • Sends daily and weekly alarm reports.
  • Helps IT team analyze trends, utilization, etc.
  • At a glance reports on availability and performance trends.
  • Reports to identify elements that are over or under utilized

• Storage Capacity Forecasting

  • Analyzes the historic and current usage trends for storage capacity
  • Analyzes traffic utilization trends
  • Generates capacity forecasting reports
  • Generates reports on future traffic utilization trends
  • Helps storage administrators to identify performance bottlenecks

• Benefits

  • Increased visibility with unified view of your storage environment
  • Reduced downtime with timely detection of problems
  • Saves administrative time with effective reporting and escalations
  • Lowers Total Cost of Ownership with NO extra software purchases
  • Simplified management at an affordable price.