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IBM® DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL

IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL provides monitoring and reporting capabilities that fully integrates with the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management environment allowing SAN administrators to manage their IBM storage assets from centralized management platform. IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL discovers and monitors all the software aspects of the array: overall capacity, spare disks, data traffic, oversubscription, etc.

How it Works

IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL

IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL works in conjunction with Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL. Hardware Sentry KM discovers and monitors all the hardware aspects of the IBM disk array: disks, RAIDs, controllers, temperature sensors, fans, power supplies, Ethernet cards, fiber ports, etc.

IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL discovers and monitors all the software aspects of the filer: size, consumed and subscribed capacity, data traffic, etc. IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL requires the installation of IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager.

  • To fully monitor IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 disk systems, you are required to install IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager. Install IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager on the system with the PATROL Agent that is to monitor the Disk Array.

Supported Platforms

IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL support the following IBM storage equipment:

  • IBM DS3000 Series
  • IBM DS4000 Series
  • IBM DS5000 Series

Key Features

IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL

  • Subsystems: size and capacity, cache statistics consumed and subscribed capacity...
  • Disk Array: overall capacity, available space, overall traffic, available spare disks...
  • Controllers: CPU utilization, data traffic, cache statistics...
  • Logical Disks: data traffic, cache statistics, mapping...

Key Benefits

  • Collects storage performance and metrics to keep total control of your SAN environment
  • Identifies performance bottlenecks (arrays, volumes, storage pools, etc.)
  • Manages and helps rationalize disk space consumption
  • Detects oversubscription situations (thin provisioning)
  • Complete view of your heterogeneous SAN in a centralized environment

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Licensing

To monitor an IBM DS, you need to acquire a license "Sentry Software Monitoring and Analytics for BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management – Storage Monitoring" from BMC Software. The "Storage Monitoring" license gives you the right to use both "Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL" and "IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM for PATROL" to monitor one IBM DS.