Overview

NetApp Filers KM for PATROL monitors all your NetApp storage assets within a centralized management console. All the information concerning disk arrays, aggregates, controllers, LUNs, quotas and ports are directly displayed in your BMC Framework.

By monitoring all your NetApp storage devices within a centralized management console, you can respond quickly to performance problems, easily determine capacity requirements, effectively plan for network expansions or also keep an eye on the critical hardware components of NetApp Filers.

NetApp Filers KM for PATROL discovers and monitors all the software aspects of the array (overall capacity, spare disks, data traffic, oversubscription, etc.), as well as the hardware aspects of the NetApp disk array (disks, fans, temperature sensors, power supplies, etc.), avoiding the need to load Hardware Sentry KM and bringing them along with storage performance metrics into your BMC framework.

The complete storage monitoring solution architecture is composed of the elements represented in the illustration below:

NetApp Filers KM for PATROL – Architecture