10.4 Integration of Storage, Systems, and Enterprise Management

Systems management applications consolidate the process of monitoring and controlling network resources, and they often encompass different networks within an enterprise under a single application umbrella. A systems management application may be dedicated to a specific function, such as utilization and performance of all network resources, or it may incorporate related categories across multiple networks, such as asset and accounting control for tracking resources and billing individual departments' use of network equipment and bandwidth. Systems management functions such as security management and fault management span wide area, local area, and storage networks, and so they require common interfaces to all topologies.

Enterprise management applications embrace all or most of the individual systems disciplines and provide the most comprehensive view of all corporate network resources. Sitting at the top of the management food chain, enterprise management relies on a steady diet of status, statistics, configuration, utilization, performance, and other management data fed to it by the underlying management subsystems and entities. Because storage networking introduces another rich set of data points for systems and enterprise management, initiatives have been proposed to rationalize the flow of management data between the lowest-level network structures and the upper-level, enterprise-wide management applications.



Designing Storage Area Networks(c) A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs
Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0321136500
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 171
Authors: Tom Clark

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