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Storage Monitoring

The Sentry Software Solution

Reduce costs - avoid extra hardware spending by isolating the bottlenecks

Performance Bottleneck Isolation: Identify bottlenecks, from the blade to the disk array and through the fiber switch. Sentry Software has taken its popular hardware monitoring solution for BMC Performance Manager and extended it to cover not only servers but also storage devices: disk arrays, fiber switches, filers and tape libraries.

Integrated as a native module for BMC Performance Manager (both agent-based “PATROL” and agent-less BMC Portal), Sentry Software’s solution monitors the physical aspects of all SAN components. It reports hardware failures, monitors key performance metrics and helps you diagnose any availability issue in the SAN. Sentry Software’s hardware monitoring products which already supports servers from DELL, IBM, HP, Sun, Fujitsu and NEC now also supports storage devices from EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Brocade, Cisco, LSI, Emulex, QLogic, NetApp, StorageTek, Quantum and ADIC. All your servers and storage devices are now monitored in a central place with a unified interface. No more integration headaches or holes in the monitoring coverage!

Monitoring Disk Arrays

Monitoring Fiber Switches

Monitoring NetApp Filers

Monitoring Tape Libraries

Supported Devices

Disk Arrays Filers Tape Libraries Fiber Switches HBA
  • EMC Symmetrix
  • EMC Clariion
  • HP EVA, HP StorageWorks XP, VA, EMA, MSA
  • IBM DS3000, 4000, 6000, 8000 series
  • Hitachi USP, AMS
  • NetApp
  • Quantum/ADIC
  • IBM
  • HP
  • StorageTek
  • Brocade Silkworm
  • McData
  • Cisco MDS
  • Emulex
  • QLogic

 Key Benefits

  • Detect failures in your SAN Shorter time-to-repair, better uptime
  • Diagnose storage performance issues Shorter time to sort out poor performance issues
  • Reports on disk space availability Manage and plan storage capacity
  • One single interface to monitor them all Less complexity, visibility on 100% of your IT
  • Native integration with the BMC framework to achieve a successful BSM implementation (BMC Event Manager, BMC Service Impact Manager, etc.) Shorter time to implement BSM

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 Hardware Monitoring
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