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PATROL® for McDATA Directors
Business Challenge
McDATA Directors are highly scalable and can extend to large multi-switch fabrics providing many connectivity options. It is important to automate metrics, health checks and diagnostics to monitor the deviceā??s health. But this can be difficult without automated management tools. 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 McDATA 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 McDATA Directors gathers performance, configuration, and device status and event information to ensure that the device is available and performing optimally. You can view environmental data inside the device, port level configuration data and a variety of port performance statistics. You will have the knowledge and information you need to effectively configure and manage McDATA.
Key Features & Benefits
- Centralizes and simplifies McDATA 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 for storage devices
- 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 McDATA 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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