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Manage and Generate Reports on SAN Storage

Manage your disk arrays by performing the following tasks:

• View the path from a SAN attached physical disk
• Define a query service
• Define an automate service

You can customize and generate various reports on SAN storage utilization using the user views. These reports helps you in identifying the disks in your array that are most vulnerable and which contains the most valuable data.

A sample report (with the graph and trending information) created for each of the disk array objects are provided from the object tree.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Object Tree icon on the Windows Client interface.
2. Expand Network Storage, Disk Arrays, and Disk Array object.

   The grid opens on the right pane.

3. Select the graph icon on the bottom of the right pane.
4. Select the X-axis Source icon and select the Family checkbox.
5. Select the Y-axis Source icon and select the Allocated and Assigned checkboxes.

   The graph displays the allocated and assigned utilization of registered disk arrays.

   

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Object Tree icon on the Windows Client interface.
2. Expand Network Storage, Disk Arrays, and Disk Array object.

   The grid opens on the right pane.

3. Select the trend icon on the bottom of the right pane.
4. Select the Trend Trace Source icon and select the Name checkbox.
5. Select the Trend Data Source icon and select the % Allocated and Size checkboxes.

   The trend provides the total size and the allocated size of registered disk arrays over a time.

   

You can export these reports to Excel, HTML, PDF, TXT, .MDB, and Web Document formats. Thus, you can customize and generate SAN reports. These reports help you in identifying the disks in your array that are at risk and contains the most valuable data.