NetApp monitoring

Owing to the rampant adoption of NetApp storage appliances by businesses, and tonnes of vital resources stored on them, their malfunction could profoundly cripple operations. Also, their inconsistent monitoring could mislead resource allocation. Making NetApp monitoring a part of your routine and incorporating a dedicated NetApp monitoring tool could help you avoid operational disasters.

Avoid bottlenecks with a NetApp monitor

Due to the number of business-critical functions dependent on NetApp storage appliances, outages and downtime could severely cripple operations; to this end, an effective NetApp monitoring tool can do wonders.

Here are some bottlenecks you may encounter if you fail to employ a NetApp monitor:

• Outages caused as a result of overshooting data capacity
• Improper allocation of resources due to miscalculated storage forecasting.
• Loss of business-critical data stored in the devices owing to outages
• Setbacks in I/O processes in storage appliances impeding system functionality

Four crucial benefits of deploying a NetApp performance monitor

Here are some major benefits obtained by NetApp performance monitoring

OpManager's NetApp monitoring tool at your service

OpManager's NetApp monitoring tool helps you proactively monitor your NetApp storage appliances for availability and storage performance bottlenecks.

Here's how OpManager can help you effectively monitor your NetApp storage appliances:

• Proactive monitoring and troubleshooting
• Precise NetApp storage capacity forecasting 
• Extensive monitoring of your supplementary NetApp characteristics
• Comprehensive dashboards and data visualization

Real-time NetApp performance monitoring and troubleshooting

OpManager's NetApp performance monitor utilizes the StorageRESTAPI to monitor your NetApp storage appliances. With OpManager, monitor NetApp performance metrics such as latency, throughput and IOPS by assigning complimentary monitors to track them.

Also, OpManager offers NetApp device templates to enable you to add these devices into your network in a few clicks.

 

 

Storage capacity forecasting using OpManager's NetApp monitor

With OpManager's NetApp monitoring, drill down into even the smallest of data entities in your NetApp appliances. OpManager has in-built device templates which allow you to monitor everything from clusters, aggregates, and volumes to logical unit numbers (LUNs) and qtrees and makes it an effective NetApp storage monitoring tool for your network. OpManager enables you to monitor the utilization and capacity of all segments of your NetApp storage to achieve optimum storage capacity forecasting.

OpManager's NetApp monitoring tool also lets you monitor the nodes and every individual port connected with your NetApp appliances with utmost precision. Additionally, you can map each virtual server with its corresponding volume consumed from your NetApp storage with ease.

Extract more value by monitoring even auxiliary NetApp components

With OpManager, go the extra mile and monitor the supplementary attributes of your NetApp storage appliances; check the status and functioning of power supplies and associated batteries that help power those appliances, and track the status of hardware and hardware sensors to ensure robust functioning on a holistic level.

Holistic dashboards and graphical representation for seamless data visualization

OpManager's customizable dashboard offers a big picture on all the historical stats and real-time stats of your NetApp storage appliances on a single screen, saving you the trouble of switching between multiple screens to fetch data. Also, OpManager's graphical representation of data sets helps you interpret data better and aid in making deliberate and well thought out inferences.