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BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp® Filers

BPM Express for NetApp® Filers monitors all of the performance metrics and usage statistics of your NetApp filers, such as filesystems usage, processor utilization, per protocol traffic, etc. It continuously monitors the activity of each filer and is also able to build reports on past utilization statistics.

How It Works

BPM Express for NetApp Filers doesn't need to be installed on each monitored server. It doesn't rely on a PATROL Agent: it is agent-less. Once loaded into BMC Portal, you can check the health of NetApp Filers from your Web browser through the Portal interface. The operators will be alerted as soon as a threshold breach is detected.

BPM Express for NetApp Filers discovers and monitors all the software aspects of the filer: shares, filesystems, quotas, protocols, etc. It uses the SNMP protocol to communicate with the controllers of the NetApp filer.

Key Features

  • Array activity statistics (network, disk activity, backups, processor utilization, etc.)
  • Files System monitoring (space consumption, available snapshots, quotas, etc.)
  • Per-protocol statistics (CIFS, NFS, fiber, etc.)
  • Mirroring reports (SnapMirror and SnapVault activity and traffic, etc.)
  • LUN Statistics (statistics report on read/write usage over the past days/hours, mapping)…
  • Cluster monitoring (interconnection status, partner status)…

Key Benefits

  • Collects NetApp Filers performance and metrics and bring them into your BMC environment
  • Identifies performance bottlenecks (physical disks, controllers, fiber links, etc.)
  • Manages and helps rationalize disk space consumption
  • Reports on activity generated by each protocol
  • Analyzes overall traffic and in-depth I/Os, etc.

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Licensing

To monitor a NetApp® filer, you need to acquire a license "Sentry Software Monitoring and Analytics for BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management – Storage Monitoring" from BMC Software. The "Storage Monitoring" license gives you the right to use both "BPM Express for Hardware" and "BPM Express for NetApp® Filers" to monitor one NetApp® filer.