Monitoring and Management of Host Servers in SAN / NAS networks
Heterogeneous management tool for storage area networks
Host servers form the front-end of the storage area networks where-in the applications accessed by the users reside. OpStor provides comprehensive Storage Area Networks management by incorporating host server management
Opstor provides out-of box reports spanning inventory, performance,
and availability as given below
Host Servers Supported
Windows
Linux
Solaris
HP UX
Features supported
Asset Details
System Resources
Monitors
Report Details
SCSI details
Fibre channel details
Interconnect details
Processors
Ethernet cards
CDROM drive
CPU utilization
Disk / IO statistics
Memory Utilization
Ethernet link status
Ethernet link status
Disk / CPU usage
Memory usage
Host summary
Availability Trends
Top N Availability
Host statistics
Top N Performance
Location summary
Trouble Tickets summary
Asset Management
Up-to-date device summary
Administrators can key in details such as device location,
vendor details, and technical support info.
Complete 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
Fault Management
OpStor periodically polls the devices to check the health,
availabiity, and utilzation of host servers. Early indications
are provided on hardware/software problems and alarms are
generated on disk, cpu, memory utilizations are also captured and appropriate alarm is generated.
Captures Host servers 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
Availability Trends
Availability reports of Host servers show the availability trends, downtime history, MTTR, MTBF, etc
You can generate the reports for various time periods such as today, yesterday, last N days, last week, this month, last month, and between two selected days
Visualization
Topological map shows hosts and their connections to switches
and storage arrays.
Link details table shows link name, source, and destination.
Color-coded icons depict switch and interconnection status.
In today's fast-growing Internet age, storage administration has become a very crucial role for every Storage Administrator.
OpStor brings together in a single console, fault management, performance management & inventory management of multi-vendor storage devices. Map views of the different devices and their interconnectivity give an overall view of the Storage environment to the Storage Administrator who can drill-down from these to view device specific performance and availability reports. Apart from assisting in the everyday tasks of assigning new storage and making sure continuous availability of data, OpStor also provides a sound notification system with device-specific alarms. Alarms can be configured with multiple thresholds to set different alarm severities & notifications sent by Email or SMS to be acted upon before costly downtime occurs.
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The number and types of storage devices keep increasing as the organization and its number of workforce increases. It is said that in a year the storage administrator will roughly add 52% more storage and refresh 38% of the current infrastructure (source: SNIA S10-200). Before you know it, the organization will have myriad vendor devices and keeping everything centralized, organized and running in perfect order will prove to be a gargantuan task.
OpStor is a storage management tool that supports management of multi-vendor SAN Switches, RAID, Tape Libraries, Host Servers and HBAs. Apart from the instantaneous reports on performance and availability of each device on the storage network, important statistics such as Mean Time Between Failures over a monthly/weekly/daily time period keep the Storage Manager aware of his team's effectiveness in achieving minimum downtime.
The Events and Alarm notifications in OpStor allow for easy strategizing & assigning of Storage faults. Each alarm is acknowledged by an administrator who can then see to the problem, add notes for future reference and then change severity of the alarm once corrective action is taken. Unattended alarms for each device type can be escalated to email addresses. Daily and weekly critical alarm reports are scheduled and emailed for offline record and analysis. Problem tickets for each device can also be provided through the OpStor Web Interface so as to have appropriate action be taken to resolve faults.
ManageEngine OpStor provides a simple management solution for the complex, heterogeneous world of Storage Networks. Call toll-free at 1-888-720-9500 for more information or click here to request a technician-assisted demo of OpStor.
