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Upgrade: SmartMon-VMS |
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Nemonix has collaborated with SANtools to finally bring SANtools powerful storage hardware management solutions to openVMS. The following is an outline of features. |
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SMARTMon-VMS Features |
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- Goes beyond S.M.A.R.T technology
- Provides full manual control and full queries outside industry standard:
- What rack, row, column is serial number 3N2XGGG?
- Scriptable, can run embedded within a NAS or SAN appliance, server, or node
- Bench performance to create ECC errors to time rebuilding
- Data integrity validation testing
- Measures true data at disk for proper benchmarking, load balancing, cache efficiency, and BUS saturation insuring disks are not over or under utilized
- Phone home, Syslog/NT logging, email supported
- Runs manufacturers self testing to confirm warranty replacement
- Polling, threshold monitoring, customize alerts on all internal counters in disk drives
- Allows user to interact with storage hardware and turn on hidden features
- Extensive drill in capabilities for LSI and other controllers
- Works on all peripheral types (tapes, drives, libraries, SES/SAF-TE enclosures)
- Extensive library of vendor specific disk and tape feature reporting
- Allows user to run same procedures as developers for management control
- Can scan GB, TB, PT storage farms in a few hours
- On demand reporting
- Self healing through background media scanning
- Fixes bad blocks
- Eliminates slow down for software based integrity checking
- Verifies interface link speed maximizing bandwidth
- Cache related tuning, error recovery, retry settings, streaming video/OLTP settings
- Centralized SQL shared database and event logging for enterprise-wide query, control, and enumeration
- Collects and aggregates full inventory, state, health, and configuration history
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