Term
| What does SNIA stand for and what do they do? |
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Definition
- Storage Networking Industry Association
- Responsible for the development of storage networking solutions and standards
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Term
| What does SMI-S stand for and what does it define? |
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Definition
- Storage Management Initiative Specification
- Defines an interface for storage management systems and allows management of physical and logical resources in a SAN
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Term
| What does CIM stand for and what is it used for? |
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Definition
- Common Information Model
- Describes a set of definitions for management of systems, networks, applications, and sservices.
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Term
| What does CIMOM stand for and what is it's function? |
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Definition
- Common Information Model Object Manager
- Provides an interface and repository for providers to store information
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Term
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| HP's retarded acronym for their implementation of CIMOM. |
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Term
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| Application code that runs on a client and communicates with the CIMOM to provide it with information. |
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Term
| What is the difference between SE Enterprise and Standard in the products supported? |
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Definition
- Standard Edition only supports homogeneous (HP single-vendor) environments
- Emphasis is on EVA SANs with Windows or Linux hosts
- Enterprise Edition support heterogeneous environments.
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Term
| List the features and benefits of Storage Essentials |
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Definition
- Unified server management
- Topology management and visualization
- Industry standard based architecture
- Capacity management and planning
- File performance management
- NAS management
- Backup management
- Event management
- Policy management
- Reporting
- Security
- Advisors and Automators
- Extensibility
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Term
| List the features of Storage Essentials |
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Definition
- Unified Storage and Server Management
- Topology Management and Visualization
- Industry Standards Based Architecture
- Capacity Management and Planning
- File Performance Management
- NAS Management
- Backup Management
- Event Management
- Policy Management
- Reporting
- Security
- Advisors and Automators
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Term
| Describe the Unified Server and Storage Management feature. |
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Definition
- Integrates with Systems Insight Manager
- Single Sign on
- Security Administration
- Asset management
- Reporting
- Discovery
- Licensing administration
- Event Management
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Term
| Describe the Topoloogy Management and Visualization feature. |
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Definition
- Automatically discovers and maps SAN and backup topology
- Displays objects, path, and zones
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Term
| Describe the Industry Standard Based Architecture feature. |
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Definition
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Term
| How have perspectives on storage evolved in the last 10 years? |
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Definition
- The move from DAS storage to centralized storage systems
- Maximizes the use of existing resources
- reduces administrative burden by centralizing management
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Term
| Describe the Capacity management and planning feature. |
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Definition
- Monitors availability and utilization at host, switch, and array.
- Graphical Trending and forecasting
- Soft Quota Management
- Proactive monitoring of consumption levels
- File System Management
- File level scanning
- Reporting
- Analysis
- Policy-based management
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Term
| Describe the file performance management feature |
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Definition
- Monitors application, host, HBA, switch, and disk sybsystem
- Enables quick identification of performance bottlenecks
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Term
| Describe the NAS Management feature. |
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Definition
- HP Proliant Storage Servers
- Analyze impact of configuration changes
- Analyze impact of file sharing changes
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Term
| Describe the backup management feature. |
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Definition
- Single view of all backup activities
- Identify unprotected appplications, servers, and files
- Analyze root cause of a backup failure
- Visualize backup configuration and recoverability of a file, directory, volume, or server
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Term
| What backup products does the backup management plug-in work with? |
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Definition
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Term
| Describe the event management feature. |
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Definition
- Monitor events and correlate their impact on your applications and hosts
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Term
| How many reports are available with the reporting feature? |
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Definition
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Term
| Describe the security feature. |
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Definition
- Control who can access different functional components of the software
- Create personalized storage resource views
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Term
| When creating a personalized storage view, which objects can you use? |
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Definition
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Term
| Describe the advisors and automators feature. |
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Definition
- Simplify and speed up common and time consuming storage administration tasks
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Term
| Describe the ways you can extend SE. |
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Definition
- Integrate custom scripts
- Use the OpenRAD toolkit
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Term
| What is the typical environment for Storage Essentials Standard, and visualize the topology for the environment. |
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Definition
- Small EVA environments with 50 to 150 MAPs and 2 to 120 TB
- 2 to 20 hosts
- Windows>70%
- HPUX 15%
- Linux 13%
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Term
| Can the Standard Edition use a dual server deployment? Respectively, what databases do SIM and SE use in a single server environment? What about a dual server environment? |
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Definition
- No, only Enterprise Edition
- Single Server
- HPSIM and SE both use Oracle
- Shared configuration
- Dual Server
- HPSIM can be installed on either MSSQL Oracle
- SE must be on Oracle
- Applies only to Enterprise Edition
- Dedicated Configuration
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Term
| When and what type of agreement did HP sign with what company for SE? With What companies does HP offer OEM versions of SE? |
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Definition
- February 2005 HP and AppIQ signed to resell the AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite as SE and for joint development
- In October 2005 HP acquired AppIQ
- HP OEMS SE with Hitachi, SGI, Engenio, and Sun
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Term
| Can SE Standard Edition integrate with HP OpenView? How does SE integrate with Openview and what functionality does it provide? |
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Definition
- No, only the Enterprise Edition integrates with HP OpenView
- Smart Plugins (SPI)
- Automation
- Visualization
- Simplification
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Term
| What is Engenio's OEM product of StorageAuthority? In what ways is it limited? What storage systems can it manage? |
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Definition
- Storage Performance Analyzer
- It only manages storage systems based on Engenio Software
- IBM DS4000
- SGI TP Series
- StorageTek Flexline
- Sun StorEdge 6130
- It only works on Windows Platforms
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Term
| What is HDS's OEM version of StorageAuthority? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is Suns OEM version of StorageAuthority? Who is Sun's strategic partner for high end storage systems? What are it's weaknesses? |
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Definition
- StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager
- HDS
- It does not integrate with server architecture
- Does not support True64
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Term
| List the tasks HP SIM performs on a device by default. |
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Definition
- Polling
- Initial Data Collection
- Identification
- Discovery
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Term
| What types of devices can SIM manage? |
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Definition
- HP Servers, Workstations, laptops
- Clusters
- SNMP Device
- DMI Device
- SMI-S device
- WBEM device
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Term
| How does the discovery component find new devices? |
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Definition
- Ping sweep identified subnets with ICMP echo
- Devices which respond are queued for system identification
- Devices specified with an XML file are queued for system identification
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Term
| What does the identification component do and what are it's phases? |
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Definition
- Finds additional information about a network address
- type of device
- serial number
- SNMP, DMI, and WBEM are used to gather information
- Filter is applied to discard systems not applicable
- Data is stored as attributes of objects in the database
- Associations are built between systems
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Term
| What does the polling component do? What are the two predefined tasks for polling and what management protocols do they use? |
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Definition
- Polling is used to determine status (health) of a device
- Software status polling uses SNMP and DMI to retrieve information about software and firmware
- Hardware status polling uses DMI, ping, HTTP, and SNMP to collect status
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Term
| After what processes does the data collection component start? What does the data collection component do? |
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Definition
- After SIM discovers, identifies, and polls a device
- Data collection identifies and categorizes each device
- DMI is used for desktops and laptops
- SNMP is used for servers and networking devices
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Term
| What does the cluster identification component do? |
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Definition
- List all discovered devices which comprise a cluster
- Identifies each member as a component of a cluster
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Term
| Will SIM discover devices which are not licensed by SE? |
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Definition
| Yes, it will discover all devices it can potentially support. |
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Term
| Identify and describe the two ways to discover devices in SIM. |
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Definition
- Manually - Enter the IP Address or DNS Name
- Automatically - Enter the subnet range to scan
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Term
| What are three steps to discovery with SE. |
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Definition
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Term
| Describe the setup step in the discovery process. |
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Definition
- Enter an IP manually, import a discovery file, or enter a range of IPs
- SE validates authentication, detects device type, and collects basic information
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Term
| Describe the topology step in the discovery process. |
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Definition
- This is an optional step as it is usually included in the details process
- SE traverses through various ports and identifies dependencies
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Term
| Describe the details step in the discovery process. |
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Definition
- SE traverses the SAN topology or backup topology to gather information on all devices
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Term
| What is an "unmanaged element"? |
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Definition
- Hosts that have no management agent which are pingable
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Term
| What is an "unknown element"? |
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Definition
- The host has an agent but SIM does not recognize it
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Term
| Describe the communication between SIM and SE during device discovery. What types of devices are handled by SE instead of SIM? |
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Definition
- Upon SIM discovery, SIM passes the device to SE
- SE discovers the system again and notifies SIM
- hosts, storage systems, switches, unmanaged elements, and unknown elements
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Term
| What functionality is in SE but not SIM? |
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Definition
- Test function on an IP Address
- Validate authentication information
- Get provider information
- Invoked when discovery fails on an IP
- Invoked when a discovered element fails to respond to data collection
Global application information - Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, Exchange- System specific application authentication information
- Product health monitoring
- Checks for error conditions on SE management server
- Low disk space
- database errors
- rman failure
- File System Viewer
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Term
| Which menus within SIM are Storage Essentials items added to? |
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Definition
- Tools, Deploy, Diagnose, Optimize, Reports, Tasks and Logs, Options, and Help
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Term
| What is the collection called and where is it added to in SIM when SE is added? |
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Definition
- Storage Essentials Systems
- Systems & Events panel
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Term
| What happens to reporting and data collection when SE is added to SIM? |
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Definition
- HP SIM data collection from SMI-S devices is disabled to avoid duplicate data collection.
- Reports should only be run from SE
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Term
| How are storage essential events handled? |
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Definition
- SE events are available in the Events tab of the System Page for all storage systems
- a collection called Storage Essentials Events is added to the list of shared collections under Events in the Systems and Events panel
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Term
| When an event is deleted or modified in SIM, does it cause the event to be deleted in SE? When an event is deleted in SE, does it cause the event to be deleted in SIM? |
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Definition
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Term
| How do you access the SE global application settings? |
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Definition
- The General Settings section in the Automatic tab on the Discovery page
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Term
| List the SE base components. |
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Definition
- System Manager
- Capacity Manager
- Performance Manager
- Application Viewer
- Policy Manager
- Event Manager
- Reporter
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Term
| What database is bundled with SE and what are the limitations? |
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Definition
- Oracle 9i Release 2
- The DB cannot be modified for other use, nor can it be deployed to another server
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Term
| List the optional SE modules. |
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Definition
- Application storage management
- Database viewer (Oracle, MSSQL, Sybase)
- Exchange Viewer
- File system viewer
- Configuration management
- Reporting
- Chargeback Manager
- NAS Manager
- Backup Manager
- Global Reporter
- Report Designer
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Term
| What functionality does the System Manager component provide? |
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Definition
- Graphical View of the SAN which displays logical connections between hosts, storage systems, and switches
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Term
| What functionality does the Capacity Manager component provide? |
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Definition
- Host Utilization - mounted, unmounted, and percentage of used space
- Switch capacity - ratio of used-to-unused ports
- Storage system capacity - mapped, unmapped, unallocated and unused
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Term
| What functionality does the Performance Manager component provide? |
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Definition
- Detailed performance metrics for managed hosts, switches, subsystems, and applications
- Flexible interface to monitor historical and real-time performance data
- Metrics which change based on selected elements
- Multiple windows for viewing different metrics and different time periods
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Term
| What functionality does the Application Viewer component provide? |
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Definition
- It lets you navigate the following types of applications
- Exchange applications
- Oracle applications
- SQL applications
- Sybase applications
- File servers
- Applications instances with File System viewer enabled
- Virtual applications
- Allow a DBA for example to understand how database tables are affected by storage infrastructure
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Term
| What functionality does the Policy Manager component provide? |
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Definition
- Set utilization watermarks on elements
- Root node policies apply to all elements under that node
- Host policies apply to all mount points on that host
- Establish system policies
- New element discovery
- Provisioning action(Enterprise Edition
- Events
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Term
| What functionality does the Event Manager component provide? |
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Definition
- ID
- Element
- Severity
- Severity
- Time
- Summary
- Element Type
- Rank(Hidden)
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Term
| What functionality does the Reporter component provide? |
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Definition
- Up to 150 detailed reports
- System
- Application
- Events
- Fabric
- File Server
- HBA
- Host
- NAS
- Performance
- Storage System
- Switch
- Backup Manager
- Applications
- Tape Libraries
- Recent
- Enterprise Edition has the following reports
- Global
- Asset Management
- Chargeback Manager
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Term
| Is the database viewer a standard component or a plug-in? What databases does it support? What functionality does it provide? |
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Definition
- Plug-in
- Oracle, SQL, or Sybase
- After automatic discovery, it graphically depicts databases, tablespaces, devices, and files and their dependencies on the SAN
- Path management and performance monitoring capabilities allow the user to predict the impact of SAN downtime and monitor SAN performance
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Term
| Is the Exchange Viewer a standard or optional plugin? Describe the capabilities. |
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Definition
"- Plug-in
- Discovers and graphically depicts instances, storage groups, and message stores
- Depicts the patch each resource takes through mount points, hosts, volume management software, HBAs, fabric switches, and storage systems
- Monitors performance and discovers messaging dependencing on components
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