iAM:Storage
In modern IT Infrastructures, storage is often held
on dedicated components (e.g. SANs or NAS) and is critical to
providing successful Business Services. iAM:Storage monitors the
availability and performance of storage and SAN devices to ensure
optimal availability.
Why is this necessary?
The storage and retrieval of data is the lifeblood of
most businesses and to ensure optimum access to it you need to monitor the
availability and performance of the components.
Without this you will not be able to see exactly where
problems are occurring so that you can deal with them in a timely manner.
Business Service availability depends on being able to see the whole
end-to-end service, which involves servers, applications, networks and
storage, and identifying problems wherever they occur.
How does iAM:Storage do it?
If there are problems with any of the storage devices
your data will not be delivered. iAM:Storage allows you to interrogate the
devices such as SAN switches via SNMP to check on their status. Also by
gathering and analysing SNMP traps, broadcast problems can be spotted
quickly and resolved before impacting users.
iAM:Storage captures SNMP traps, analyses them and
creates standard Itheon events for alerting and reporting. It also polls
MIBs using SNMP GETs so that you can regularly check the condition and
performance parameters of storage devices. By storing this data over time
you can produce graphical reports on the key device performance
indicators. Is Reporting and Graphing possible?
Yes, using a web-based reporting/graphing system you can
analyse the key performance indicators of your storage devices and ensure
SLA compliance.
What alerting mechanism does
iAM:Storage use?
Generating alerts when problems occur, iAM:Storage can
send a variety of different alerts, including pop-ups, pager/SMS messages,
email, links to enterprise managers and links to help desks.
How does iAM:Storage benefit my
business?
When storage isn't properly looked after you create
problems for your users, and customers, etc as performance and device
malfunctions will lead to reduced user productivity, lost profit, loss of
customers and other business problems.
iAM:Storage addresses these problems, and enables you to
analyse the essential information needed to store and retrieve your data
quickly and reliably.
What type of organisations use
iAM:Storage?
iAM:Storage is a cost-effective solution for any
organisation that needs to monitor and maximise the performance of its
storage infrastructure. It is essential for any organisation that needs to
bring storage monitoring into a single central view of the IT
infrastructure.
System
Requirements:
iAM:Storage comes on its own hardware appliance and is accessed and used
via standard web browsers. |
