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What is Softek SANView?
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What is Softek SANView?
Softek SANView manages heterogeneous multi-vendor SANs, streamlining SAN
management through the following features:
• Automatically detects and discovers host bus adapters (HBAs) and Fibre Channel
Management Integration MIB (Fibre Alliance MIB)-compliant switches, hubs,
routers, bridges, disks, and arrays in the SAN for management; collects and
interprets management data; and allows you to launch alternate management
tools (such as Telnet or Web-based tools).
• Monitors and displays the health of the interconnections between SAN devices.
• Scales easily (through its advanced architecture) to accommodate updates of
Softek SANView Modules. A Softek SANView Module is a software subset that
allows Softek SANView to discover, monitor, and manage specific SAN devices.
Options include specialized discovery, data collection and interpretation,
graphical user interfaces, and launch of alternate management tools.
• Integrates with and reports events to Enterprise Management Applications such
as CA Unicenter (when related Softek SANView Integration Module is installed).
• Quickly troubleshoots and isolates problems through health monitoring, user-
filtered event logs, and advanced diagnosis capabilities. These features help you
quickly identify, isolate, and fix issues to keep your SAN operating reliably.
• Manages agents out-of-band to facilitate SAN management configuration, allow
remote management capability, and ensure continually available management
data (even if parts of the SAN transport are down).
• Proactively monitors status and detects problems at every level, notifying
administrators via email when failure-marked events occur. All events are shown
in the SAN Events frame as well. The health of all SAN devices is continually
monitored and displayed.
• Tracks bandwidth usage with configurable traffic threshold alerts for easy
capacity planning.
• Secures both monitoring and management options through user-defined
passwords, passed between Client and Server through the MD5 encryption
algorithm. (MD5 is Message Digest 5, a public one-way hash function used for
password encryption. MD5 is defined in RFC 1321.)
• Runs on UNIX and Windows®.
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