Synergy with Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL

To benefit from a complete monitoring of NetApp Filers, NetApp Filers 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 a filer, 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.

•NetApp Filers KM for PATROL monitors all of the performance metrics and usage statistics of your NetApp filers, such as file systems usage, processor utilization, per protocol traffic, etc. It continuously monitors the activity of each filer and is also able to build reports on past utilization statistics.

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

NetApp Filers KM for PATROL – Architecture