The alerting feature is valuable because it completes the gap of storage monitoring. Often the storage comes with a tele-diagnostic service. For security purposes, it’s very important for us to be aware of every single failure in order to be more proactive and not only reactive.
We use the SNMP gateway to aggregate hardware and performance events.
The use of agents is not easy. The architectural design of using every single agent for every type of storage can be reviewed with the use of general proxies.
The general proxies also discover other vendors’ storage. This can be done with custom made scripts.
We have been using this solution for five years.
I did not encounter any issues with stability.
There were some scalability issues because we needed several agent servers.
The installation was complex because we had to setup multiple servers.
We evaluated these solutions:
It’s very important to plan the correct setup of agent servers.
