Hitachi 9900 Series - Manual (Page 49)

Hitachi Resource Manager ™ 9000
The following is a summary list of the many ways in which the Hitachi Resource
Manager ™ can simplify IT operations, improve availability and performance service levels
for business critical OLTP and DSS applications, and thereby enable the more rapid
deployment of new applications by managing data more intelligently.
Service Level Management
• Policy Management
• Security Management
• Automation
• Monitoring/Reporting
• Storage Management
Deployment Management
• Asset Management
• Change Management
• Capacity Planning
Compliance Management
• Event Management
• Performance Management
• Quota Planning
• Accounting Management
• Problem Planning
SNMP support ensures compliance with all major systems management
platforms
Hitachi Resource Manager ™ supports Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
SNMP is the most widely used network management protocol in the marketplace. System
Information Messages (SIMs) are converted to SNMP Management Information Blocks
(MIBs) for use with Hitachi Resource Manager
™ software, or the VERITAS ® Storage
Manager ™ , Tivoli ® , CA Unicenter TNG, HP ® OpenView ® . With CA Unicenter TNG,
“super MIBs” allow the control of the Lightning 9900 ™ using CA Unicenter commands.
This out-of-band
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reporting format ensures that Hitachi Resource Manager ™ 9000 can
determine the status of your Lightning 9900 ™ storage system even if the data channel path
is down.
Hitachi Graph-Track ™ takes the guess-work out of performance management
As the cornerstone of the software utilities of the Hitachi Resource Manager ™ 9000
software suite, the Hitachi Graph-Track ™ GUI is widely recognized as user friendly. Icons
and pull-down menus define and display data, while point-and-click capabilities and
on-line help further enhance its ease of use. All Hitachi Graph-Track
™ data can be
exported in several formats quickly and effortlessly, for use in other data analysis and
reporting programs.
Hitachi Graph-Track ™ gives users a more reliable and centralized way to manage
performance. Available for S/390 ® , UNIX ® , and Windows NT/2000 ® environments, this
unique tool monitors hardware performance and supplies complete system storage
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The Hitachi
Graph-Track
™ GUI
is widely recognized as
user friendly.
6 “Out of Band” refers to the path that system management messages travel which is a
different path from the data. “In band” messages would compete with data for bandwidth.