When it comes to SAN analysis and reporting, the right tools can keep your SAN running as efficiently as possible. To help you, Brocade offers SAN Health, a free software utility designed to securely audit and analyze your SAN environment — saving you considerable time, effort, and money.
To help optimize your SAN's performance, SAN Health automatically discovers critical fabric characteristics and reports their details in easy-to-understand Excel and Visio formats. In addition, SAN Health performs critical tasks such as:
- Taking inventory of devices, switches, firmware versions, and fabrics
- Capturing and displaying historical performance data
- Comparing zoning and switch configurations against best practices
- Assessing performance statistics and error conditions
- Producing detailed graphical reports and diagrams
How SAN Health Works
SAN Health gives you a powerful tool that helps you focus on optimizing your SAN rather than manually tracking its components. In fact, a wide variety of useful features make it easier for you to collect data, identify potential issues, and check your results over time. As a result, you can greatly increase your productivity while improving your return on investment—all with a single, easy-to-use utility.
To provide a comprehensive report about your SAN environment, SAN Health utilizes two main components: a data capture application and a back-end report processing engine. After SAN Health finishes the capture of switch diagnostic data, the back-end reporting process automatically generates a Visio topology diagram and a detailed "snapshot" report on your SAN configuration. This summary report contains information about the entire SAN as well as specific details about fabrics, switches, and individual ports. Other useful items in the report include alerts, historical performance graphs, and recommended best practices.
SAN Health delivers topology diagrams, comprehensive reports, detailed explanations and more. If you are a Brocade Customer or a Brocade Partner get your copy of SAN Health and get better insight to the health of your SAN.
