Fabric Switch Management
ManageEngine® OpStor manages Fabric switches based
on SNIA's standard Fabric switch management MIBs. In addition, vendor specific
MIBs and APIs are used to provide fine-grained monitoring capabilities.
OpStor automatically discovers fabric switches in your environment.
OpStor provides out-of-box reports spanning inventory, performance
and availability as given below,
Inventory Reports
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Once the Fabric Switches are discovered, an additional detailed
scan is performed to capture the complete set of asset, capacity,
performance, and configuration details of the switches.
- Fabric Switches summary
- Switch Port details
- WWN - Interconnect information
- Zoning information
- Switch availability reports
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Visualization |
- Topological map shows switches and their interconnections.
- Link details table shows link name, source, and destination.
- Color-coded icons depict switch and interconnection status.
- Drill-down views - Switch Sub-map views
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Alarm Management |
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OpStor monitors status of switches and the ports and raises
alarms whenever there is a change in the state. SNMP traps
from the SAN switch are also captured and appropriate alarm
is generated.
- Captures Switch & Port 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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Real-Time Graphs |
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With OpStor, one can perform port level troubleshooting and
diagnostics using non-intrusive, SNMP based live graphs capability.
Real-time data is collected from the ports and plotted in
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.
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Port Performance Reports |
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The following Port Performance statistics are computed for
each port at periodic intervals and reports generated to provide
trend analysis.
- Rx Throughput
- Tx Throughput
- Total Throughput
- Rx traffic
- Tx traffic
- Errors
Reports of Top N performing switches / ports and Top N available
switches / ports based on the above paramters can also be
generated.
Further, comparison reports of ports based on the above paramters
are also available.
- Sends daily and weekly alarm reports.
- Helps IT team analyze trends, utilization, etc.
- Reports to identify ports that are over or under utilized.
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OpStor supports SAN switches from the following vendors.
