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A Modular Solution For Monitoring Your Data Across Your Organization
Managing your organization's critical data can certainly be a challenge, especially as your data grows and moves around your organization. To ensure your business information flows efficiently throughout the data center and across your organization, you need to monitor all the systems that touch it—not just the storage device(s) on which it lives.
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The Solution: Storage Monitor
Xiotech's Storage Monitor helps answer your information management questions and allows you to turn data growth into business advantage.
Storage Monitor presents a centralized view of your data operations, including applications, operating systems, backup operations, Magnitude 3D® storage systems, storage networks, and backup applications. It offers executive-level views for strategic business planning, while providing drill-down options for those who need to keep the data center running.
From an intuitive Web browser, you can easily manage the health of your business applications around the clock and around the world. Based on business rules, you can automatically manage changes to avoid critical outages. Through trend analysis and exception reporting, you can ensure application availability and increase your overall operational efficiency.
Storage Monitor is a modular solution, so you buy just the pieces you need as you need them. Out of the box, Storage Monitor includes monitoring support for Magnitude 3D storage systems and Fibre Channel switches, as well as a server agent for a supported client operating system. Additional modules provide information on Fibre Channel switches, servers, backup software, and databases. You can implement as few or as many modules as you require; each easily integrates into the Storage Monitor platform.
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Key Features
Central, Web-based console
Easy installation and configuration
Monitoring of all major operating systems
Storage and Assets
Policy-based storage management
Asset change monitor
Capacity planning
Forecasting and trending
Chargebacks
Reporting
Predefined and customized reporting
Scheduled reports to email or publish
Drill-down reporting
User and File Analysis
File analysis on hosts
Usage by host or OS
Large and orphan file reporting
Rules engine to find specific files
Performance
Performance monitoring
Threshold monitoring with alerts
Server consolidation
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Storage Monitor's Features & Benefits
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Integrated Storage Management
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The Magnitude 3D module performs asset management, alerting and notification, performance management, capacity planning, and real-time and historical forecasting/trending. Server agents provide disk, volume, CPU, and memory usage to Storage Monitor for real-time analysis, trending, and alerting to help you avoid downtime events today and plan for tomorrow. Server agents also include data classification capabilities for information lifecycle management (ILM) and policy-driven automation.
Storage Monitor also offers modules for DAS, NAS, and other SAN devices to enable your organization to monitor your entire storage enterprise.
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Consolidated Backup Reporting
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Storage Monitor's Backup module provides a single view across all backup operations—even if disparate. It monitors backup processes, identifies how much data is being backed up, reports success or failure, indicates how much time the process is taking and trends when the backup window will be exceeded. is amount of time taken, and provides a method for storing backup reporting for audit and compliance purposes.
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Application Monitoring for Email, Databases and DNS
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Storage Monitor enables you to proactively manage and ensure availability of essential applications such as Exchange, SQL Server, and Oracle in the same consolidated, intuitive GUI as your operating systems, NAS devices, SAN devices, and backup applications. Storage Monitor also includes the DNS monitor, a near real-time tool allowing you to monitor DNS hosts for availability.
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Proactive Planning, Less Reactive Spending
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Storage Monitor helps your organization reduce operational expenses and better plan for future needs by addressing areas such as backup/disaster recovery, server consolidation, capacity planning, chargeback/tracking resource usage, asset management, and management reporting. Storage Monitor also helps you spot potential trouble and resolve issues before they affect end users.
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