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
- VMware ESX Servers
- Windows
- Linux
- Solaris
- IBM AIX
- HP UX
Features supported
| Asset Details |
System Resources |
Monitors |
Report Details |
- SCSI details
- Fibre channel details
- Interconnect details
- Processors
- Ethernet cards
- CDROM drive
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- CPU utilization
- Disk / IO statistics
- Memory Utilization
- Ethernet link status
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- Ethernet link status
- Disk / CPU usage
- Memory usage
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- Host summary
- Availability Trends
- Top N Availability
- Host statistics
- Top N Performance
- Location summary
- Trouble Tickets summary
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 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.
- Drill-down views - Host Sub-map views
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