Manage the Enterprise

With the ever increasing amount of stored data manageability of complex environments is greater than ever.

Northern Storage Suite is designed to manage large enterprise environments. This means deep integration into existing strucutres as well as support for hetrogenous storage platforms.

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 SMTP, 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