Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.1 SP1 Getting Started Guide (5900-1498, April 2011)

About Symantec Operations Readiness Tools

Symantec™ Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a set of Web-based tools and

services that lets you proactively manage your Symantec enterprise products.

SORT automates and simplifies administration tasks, so you can manage your

data center more efficiently and get the most out of your Symantec products.

SORT lets you do the following:

■ Collect, analyze, and report on server configurations across UNIX or Windows

environments. You can use this data to do the following:

■ Assess whether your systems are ready to install or upgrade Symantec

enterprise products

■ Tune environmental parameters so you can increase performance,

availability, and use

■ Analyze your current deployment and identify the Symantec products and

licenses you are using

■ Upload configuration data to the SORT Web site, so you can share information

with coworkers, managers, and Symantec Technical Support

■ Compare your configurations to one another or to a standard build, so you can

determine if a configuration has "drifted"

■ Search for and download the latest product patches

■ Get notifications about the latest updates for:

■ Patches

■ Hardware compatibility lists (HCLs)

■ Array Support Libraries (ASLs)

■ Array Policy Modules (APMs)

■ High availability agents

■ Determine whether your Symantec enterprise product configurations conform

to best practices

■ Search and browse the latest product documentation

■ Look up error code descriptions and solutions

Note: Certain features of SORT are not available for all products.

To access SORT, go to:

http://sort.symantec.com

Where to find more information

About Symantec Operations Readiness Tools