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OpStor

Multi-Vendor Storage Management
OpStor is a heterogeneous storage infrastructure monitoring solution that helps enterprises to monitor their storage resources.
  • Multi-vendor storage infrastructure management
  • Pro-active Fault and Performance monitoring
  • Visualize SAN availability and health
  • Detect problems with utilization and availability of storage devices.
Success Stories
"OpStor lets us monitor our entire storage environment, Servers, HBA's, Switches, and the SAN." - Bryan Dearlove, - Information Guelph General Hospital Download 21-Day Trial

Monitoring Windows servers like Windows 2003, XP, NT and 2000

OpStor provides monitoring and management of Windows servers in SAN and NAS networks

Models Supported

  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows XP

Features supported
Storage Resources System Resources Inventory Details Report Details
  • SCSI details
  • Fibre channel details
  • CPU Utilization
  • Memory Utilization
  • Disk / IO statistics
  • Ethernet link status
  • Processor
  • Ethernet Card
  • CDROM Drive
  • Host Summary
  • Availability
  • Ethernet interface statistics
  • Interconnect details

Prerequisites for monitoring windows server in OpStor
  • Start the platform SNMP service if not already started.
  • Check the SNMP service Security settings.
  • This can be viewed via
    Start-->Settings-->Control Panel--> Administrative Tools-->Services-->SNMP Service-->(Right-click) Properties--> Security (Tab)
  • OpStor uses public as snmp community to talk to Host Servers
  • Check if the snmp community name public is available in the text-window under Accepted Community Names with READ-ONLY rights.
  • If not then add the community with READ-ONLY rights
  • Check if the server running OpStor is able to access this SNMP Service
  • Now check if the IP address of the server where OpStor is installed is present in the Accept SNMP packets from these host text-window.
  • If not, then configure this IP address.
  • After making any modifications save them by selecting Apply and restart the SNMP service. This is required for the latest changes to take effect.

Note: If SNMP is not available then a telnet account with username guest and password guest needs to be created for discovery

HBA Discovery
  • Ensure that the HBA Agent is installed and running in the server.
  • Download URL & installation instructions for each OS is available at ,
    HBA Agent Download & Installation

SCSI Discovery
  • Microsoft utility devcon.exe needs to be installed in the server where OpStor is running to discover SCSI adapters and attached SCSI devices
  • Go to the server where OpStor is installed.
  • Now download devcon.exe from Microsoft site.
  • Run <devcon_download_dir> devcon.exe
  • This opens up a dialog box asking to 'UnZip'
  • Select 'UnZip' option and choose a directory <devcon_install_dir>
  • This will create two directories
      <devcon_install_dir>/I386
      <devcon_install_dir>/Ia64

  • If Windows machine is 32-bit Processor based, set <devcon_install_dir>/ I386 to PATH environment variable
  • If Windows machine is 64-bit Processor based, set <devcon_install_dir>/ Ia64 to PATH environment variable
  • Restart OpStor (This is required for the latest PATH changes to take effect)
  • devcon.exe detailed documentation is available online for reference

Steps to add Windows server in OpStor
  • Navigate to Admin Tab-->Manage Storage Devices link in OpStor
  • Select SNMP option
  • Specify the IP of the host server
  • Provide snmp port and community string (default is 161 & public)
  • If the read community is other than public then specify it in the community field
  • Click Add Device.
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