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Monitoring and Management of RAIDs in OpStor
Heterogeneous management tool for storage area networks
AdventNet ManageEngine® OpStor uses SNMP / CLI / vendor-specific
APIs to discover the RAIDs in your network. Complete set of asset,
capacity, performance, and configuration information of the RAID
and its components are discovered and represented in the OpStor
client.
Opstor provides out-of box reports spanning inventory, performance,
and availability as given below
RAIDs Supported
- IBM ESS
- HP MSA
- HP EVA
- EMC CLARiiON
- Hitachi
- NetApp
- StorageTek
- IBM FastT / DS4000
- SUN StorEdge
- Infortrend
Features supported
Physical Assets |
Logical Assets |
Monitors |
Report Details |
- Controller
- Controller Fabric Ports
- Disk Drives
- Interconnect Details
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- LUNs
- Volumes
- Raid Groups
- Virtual Disk Groups
- Partitions
- Volume Groups
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- Controller status
- Controller port status
- Disk Drive status
- Volume status
- Disk Group status
- LUN status
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- Raid Capacity summary
- Availability Trends
- Top N Availability
- Array statistics
- LUN statistics
- Disk Drive statistics
- VDisk statistics
- Top N Performance
- Location 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.
- Comprehensive physical and logical asset details in RAIDs
- Device level problem report filing and maintenance
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Fault Management |
OpStor periodically polls the devices to check the health,
availabiity, and utilization of storage RAIDs. Early indications
are provided on hardware/software problems and alarms are
generated on drive failures, sensor faults such as Fan Failure,
Battery Failure, Power supply failure. SNMP traps from the
arrays are also captured and appropriate alarm is generated.
- Captures Storage Array & Component 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 on RAID controllers and its ports 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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Performance Reports |
Performance statistics are computed at periodic intervals
and reports generated to provide trend analysis for the storage
array components like
- Storage Array Capacity
- Storage Array
- Controller / Storage Processor
- Virtual Disks
- Raid Groups
- Disk Groups
- Disk Drives
- Controller Port Statistics
The parameters collected include the following ,
- Traffic - Read / Write / Total
- Utilization - Read / Write / Total
- Bandwidth - Read / Write / Total
- Throughput - Read / Write / Total
- Latency - Read / Write
- Queue Depth
- Storage array capacity - Total / Configured / Used / Free
You can visually see the utilization of components like LUN
volumes and take preventive measures as they reach their peak
capacities |
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Visualization |
- Topological map shows arrays and their connections to switches
and host servers.
- Link details table shows link name, source, and destination.
- Color-coded icons depict switch and interconnection status.
- Drill-down views - Array Sub-map views
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