Freedom Storage 5800 Support

Management Support Software
SOMMET Delivers Enterprise-wide Control
SOMMET—or Storage On-line Management and Media Error Transmission—is one of many resource management programs included in Hitachi Storage Central, a customizable suite of software solutions that heighten competitiveness, increase productivity, and reduce the total cost of computing. Designed for the Hitachi Freedom Storage™ 5700, 5700E, and 5800 subsystems, SOMMET is a flexible, easy-to-use configuration management tool.

With SOMMET, Hitachi Freedom 5700/5700E/5800 users can:

  • Monitor and manage their storage subsystems in multivendor environments through a graphical user interface
  • Pin-point the exact nature of a failure—all the way down to the component level
  • Initiate service quickly, if needed
  • Gather performance statistics covering I/O activity, cache data, and availability/operational information
  • Dynamically configure disk storage while the system is active
  • Guard against unauthorized access to administrator functions.
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Hitachi Storage Central WATCHMAN™
HSC WATCHMAN makes managing your Hitachi Freedom Storage™ environment easy and convenient. HSC WATCHMAN is a Web-based, error-management tool that lets you monitor your Hitachi Freedom Storage 5700/5700E/5800 systems—anywhere, from any computer, at any time.

By providing point-and-click access, HSC WATCHMAN helps you streamline your entire storage management process. It automatically detects modular component errors in storage and notifies you of them immediately on your browser and through worldwide e-mails. These malfunction alerts cover the status of disks, controllers, batteries, fans, power supplies, and cache memory in array units.

With HSC WATCHMAN, monitoring can be done at the unit level or the component level. Color-coded visual aids help you quickly detect failures so you continue providing users with access to information. You can also customize HSC WATCHMAN for viewing your HDS configuration by geography, division, or according to any other standard that is meaningful to the business.

HSC WATCHMAN can be deployed under any platform that supports any industry-standard Web browser.

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