Symantec 5.1 Discovery of storage resources, Policies for managing resources, Data collection

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About Veritas CommandCentral Storage

■Generate reports about the network’s physical resources and about storage usage

■Troubleshoot network elements

■Manage day-to-day performance and resource availability

■Develop a data protection strategy and assure that the storage network is secure

Meeting the needs of storage administrators with CommandCentral Storage

CommandCentral Storage can maximize the return on your investment in storage technology. It does so by providing tools designed to help the storage administrator optimize the operation of your storage network.

Discovery of storage resources

CommandCentral Storage contains in-band and out-of-band discovery methods for discovering a wide range of network or storage network objects. As a result, you can discover and monitor physical and virtual fabrics, hosts, groups, storage devices (such as arrays and NetApp unified storage devices), and applications.

Versatile displays of information about storage resources

The CommandCentral Storage Console provides a rich, versatile set of graphical and textual displays with which you can visualize physical resources—such as hosts and arrays—and logical resources—such as virtual fabrics—as well as the connections and interrelationships between them. Displays also include storage usage reports and projected storage consumption trends.

Policies for managing resources

Using the CommandCentral Storage Alert Manager, you can define and manage policies that are associated with objects in your storage network. A policy consists of a condition to monitor, such as heavy traffic on a specific switch port, and a set of actions to take when that condition is met. In addition to the policies you define, an extensive set of default policies is included with the CommandCentral Storage product.

Data collection

CommandCentral Storage includes a versatile set of collectors that gather information about network resources for evaluation by the Alert Manager. CommandCentral Storage collects information about capacity, environmental conditions (such as temperature), performance, traffic, errors, and object availability.