OpStor Multi-Vendor Storage Management

OpStor is a multi-vendor storage area networks SAN and network attached storage NAS monitoring tool for storage devices like Storage Arrays, Fabric Switches, Tape Libraries, Host servers and Host Bus Adapters cards from leading vendors like EMC, HP, IBM, Cisco, Brocade, DELL, ADIC, SUN, QLogic, Emulex, JNI and more

OpStor provides increased visibility with unified view of your storage environment thereby reducing the downtime with timely detection of problems.

What is OpStor?

ManageEngine^® OpStor is an enterprise-ready, easy-to-use,and affordable storage infrastructure monitoring solution that helps enterprises to monitor their mission-critical storage resources effectively. It enables you to monitor fiber channel switches, Storage Arrays, Tape Libraries, Host Servers and HBAs which form the backbone of enterprise applications.

ManageEngine^® OpStor enables Storage Administrators to have a unified view of their heterogenous storage environment through a user-friendly web interface. It helps administrators detect problems early before they affect the business applications. It also help reduce the time to repair through an integrated management solution.

Key Benefits

• Increased visibility with unified view of your storage environment
• Reduced downtime with timely detection of problems
• Saved administrative time with effective reporting and escalations
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership with NO extra software purchases
• Simplified management at an affordable price.

Unified View

ManageEngine^® OpStor gives an integrated view of multi-vendor resources that make up your storage environment. It constantly keeps track of resource availability and performance so that critical business applications that depend on storage infrastructure are not affected. Storage Administrators can view the critical status of storage resources and be notified of any alarms in real time.

Fabric Switch Monitoring

    Ensure Port availability
    Monitor Port performance and utilization
    Monitor zones, VSANs
    Troubleshoot with real-time graphing
    Secure telnet tunnelling

Storage Array Monitoring

    Monitor Physical components - Controllers, ports,drives
    Monitor logical components - LUNs, Volumes, Storage Groups
    Monitor health,availability and utilization of resources
    Monitor sensor faults, battery, Power supply status

Tape Library Monitoring

    Monitor Physical components - Tape drives,ports,cartridges
    Monitor logical components - Partitions, Movers
    Monitor health,availability and utilization of resources
    Monitor sensor faults, battery, Power supply status
    Launch device manager application from opstor client
    storage_array

HBA Monitoring

    Ensure HBA Port availability
    Monitor HBA Port performance and utilization
    Monitor traffic on HBAs

 Host Server Monitoring 
 

    Identify SCSI/HBAs mounted on Host servers
    onitor CPU & Memory utilization
    Monitor Disk space Utilization & IO statistics
    Monitor Windows,Linux,Solaris,HP-UX,IBM AIX servers

Notify & Resolve Problemsmap

    Intelligent alarm correlation and color coded alarms
    Automatic escalation of critical and unresolved alarms
    Get notified through e-mail,SMS
    Take corrective actions by executing custom scripts
    Acknowledge and add operator notes

Reports & Graphs

    Reports on storage resource availability & utilization
    Reports on Key performance indicators (KPI)
    Top-N reports on Availability & Performance
    Reports on vendor & location spread
    Reports on critical alarms and history
    Real-time graphs at port level to troubleshoot problems

Miscellaneous

    Search - To find a device or alarm by specifying a sub-string of the same.
    Help To guide the user in case he does not understand how to proceed with a particular operation.
    Talkback To file issues, suggestions, or feature requests in OpStor.
    Export as PDF To save the reports and other information shown in the client, for future reference.
    Printer Friendly To print the reports and other information shown in the client.
    Sorting To enable easy grouping of records, all the tables are sort-able on their column headings.

    Hardware: PIII 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk space
    Operating System :Windows, Linux
    Browser :Internet Explorer, Firefox and Mozilla.