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 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.
• Drill-down views - Host Sub-map views