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PATROL® for Crossroads Storage Routers
Business Challenge
Crossroads Storage Routers transfer data between Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (FC SANs) and SCSI devices. As with any complex technology, it is important to modify configurations, monitor the system throughout, and ensure the deviceā??s health, but this can be difficult to accomplish manually. As capacity increases or storage is added, it becomes even more critical to ensure the device is online and performing.
Business Need
- Simplify device management and centralize storage management by combining storage data and tasks
- Ensure availability, optimize performance, and automate maintenance of network storage devices
- Monitor, expose, and manage key environmental and performance data points to avoid system downtime
- Isolate and resolve device problems quickly and automatically with minimal manual intervention
- Guarantee applicationsā?? service levels and access by identifying device-related events and alerts
Our Solution
PATROL for Crossroads Storage Routers leverages both industry-standard and proprietary sources as a means to gather performance, configuration, device status and event information. Starting at the router level, you can drill-down into the device to view configuration, status and availability information as well as port level data, including type, world wide name and status. You can also view Fibre Channel-to-SCSI mapping information and a variety of port performance statistics, including frames transmitted, frames received, bad CRC frames, SCSI I/Os and SCSI aborts.
Key Features & Benefits
- Centralizes and simplifies device management through detailed topology mapping and reporting of discovered devices and their interconnections
- Optimizes storage configurations by proactively tracking and reporting detailed environmental, performance and capacity metrics
- Manages costs associated with storage devices through predefined, vendor-specific and customized historical application-to-storage device reporting
- Expedites problem resolution through a centralized GUI-interface menu, user-definedthresholds, and drill-down capabilities into the device
- Ensures applications are online and performing by automatically detecting and resolvingdevice-related events and alerts
- Maintains rapid data access without interruption by consolidating critical device- andapplication-specific event, performance, and capacity data
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