This software stands behind the stable operation of a multi-vendor storage system environment such as a SAN, a DAS, and a NAS using the configuration that provide integrated management of storage-related resources and functions of connection, fault, and performance management.
Configuration management realizing total management of devices in an entire system
This function displays the status of each device in a current entire storage system and the status of physical connection between devices graphically on the GUI. You can drill down from an icon of each device to the detail window to get detail information which part of the device (for example, a Fibre Channel switch port) is connected to which part.
Correlation management realizing total management of small-sized resources of all devices
This function not only manages detail configuration within the storage devices but also automatically obtains the physical paths from disks, file systems of the related server nodes, multi paths, mirrored disks, and database configuration information and displays information correlating these data on a single window.
It used to be very hard to recognize the correlation between entities because those entities were supported by their own management tools and were displayed in various formats respectively. In this software, the correlation of entities can be displayed in a common display format on a single window, and consequently the entire configuration can simply be grasped and an error can be detected if any configuration error should exist. Additionally, such configuration information can be saved in a file, and the configuration can be viewed off-line and compared to the previous one.
This function displays the actual access path from a database used by an application to a physical disk and the connection relation on a window. For example, it is useful in the following situations:
When a failure occurs on a part or parts must be replaced
The data and operation it affects can be recognized immediately.
When performance delay occurs on some volume
The data and operation it affects can be recognized immediately with the threshold monitoring function as storage performance. It is also simplified to review the storage system tuning.
When a business is delayed
The shorter time is consumed to solve the problem because the correlated storage entities can be recognized immediately.
Properties are retained for each component and history of events such as failures managed, for example, by the version number, re-edition date, and device of that component can also be viewed.
Fault management function for facilitating to locate of failed parts and affected areas
Failures that occur on devices are properly displayed in an understandable way. In addition, the detailed display on the Correlation window enables you to pinpoint the cause by part. The path display provides detailed information about the areas affected by the failed part allowing for fast and accurate recovery.
Error information can be automatically reported to Systemwalker, integrated administrative software, and other venders' Management Software, and centralized management of the system becomes available.
Optimal environment delivery via performance information management
Performance information of managed devices can be managed and displayed. Performance information of devices are stored on the administrative server, past performance information can be accessed as well as real-time performance information. Additionally, because performance information can be viewed in a graphic format, you can simply see the picture of the performance statuses and load statuses of devices.
In addition, threshold values can be set on devices so that alarms are reported when those threshold values are exceeded. The bottleneck causes and locations can be identified, and as a result, the configuration of devices is improved and the operation in the optimal environment is delivered.
Performance information can be viewed from the Report window of Systemwalker Service Quality Coordinator Enterprise Edition Server (for Agent) 12.x.
