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PATROL® for INRANGE FC/9000
Business Challenge
INRANGE FC/9000 is an enterprise class Fibre Channel director that supports FICON and Open Fibre Channel Network connectivity. The FC/9000 controls server connectivity and simplifies storage area network (SAN) management. Ensuring that the INRANGE FC/9000 is healthy, online and performing becomes critical as capacity or storage grows, but can be difficult to accomplish manually.
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 INRANGE FC/9000 uses industry-standard interfaces to help you gather performance, configuration, status and event information. With PATROL for INRANGE FC/9000, you can view status information about the power supply module, temperature sensors, device circuit board, and fans. You can also view port level data such as port type, state and status, as well as worldwide name, zoning and performance statistics.
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-defined thresholds, and drill-down capabilities into the device
- Ensures applications are online and performing by automatically detecting and resolving device-related events and alerts
- Maintains rapid data access without interruption by consolidating critical device- and application-specific event, performance and capacity data
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