| With the ever increasing
amount of stored data manageability of complex
environments is greater than ever.
Northern Storage Suite is designed to manage
everything from SMBs to large enterprises. This
means deep integration into existing strucutres
as well as support for hetrogenous storage plattforms.
Manage the enterprise:
- Multi-host display - all
workspaces can include data from all devices
- Multi-host management - all
workspaces allow concurrent management of multiple
devices
- Email protocol support -
send notifications using SNMP, MS Mail, MS Exchange,
Windows Messenger and command-line messaging
- Operation Manager support
- post warnings and information messages to
the Event Viewer
- COM API - integrate storage
control policies with COM aware applications
- SQL database store - quota
settings, usage and cost data, billing class
definitions, etc. are all stored in an open
SQL database
- Active Directory integration
- LDAP is used extensively to automate configuration
wherever possible
Plattform Support (read more):
- Microsoft Windows [2000 Server or later]
- Microsoft Windows Cluster [all modes supported]
- Network Attached Storage [with CIFS enabled]
- EMC Celerra [Celerra 5.6 or later including
CEE framework and CEPA module]
- NetApp [Data ONTAP 7.0 or later including
FPolicy 1.4]
- Storage Area Network [where the resource appears
locally to a Windows host]
Licensing and Set-up:
- Northern Storage Suite is licensed by [physical]
host and by capacity [sum of managed volumes]
- NSS services must always be installed on a
Windows server regardless of the target platform[s]
- A Microsoft SQL Server must be available on
the network
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