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To benefit from a complete monitoring of your IBM environment, IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL needs to be used in conjunction with Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL.
| • | Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL discovers all the physical components, that is: controllers, disks, power supplies, fans, network and fiber ports, and reports hardware failures on these components. Additionally, it monitors the traffic on each network and fiber port. Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL is part of the Sentry Software monitoring product line. |
| • | IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL monitors all of the performance metrics and usage statistics of your IBM environment, such as file disk space usage, storage controller utilization, I/Os on the disks/controllers/volumes, etc. It continuously monitors the activity of each subsystem and is also able to build reports on past utilization statistics. |
Architecture
The complete storage monitoring solution architecture is composed of the elements represented in the illustration below:
IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL – Architecture
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