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Technology Overview
Xsan
Remote Administration Tools
Xsan includes Xsan Admin, a set of tools for managing and monitoring your SAN.
An intuitive graphical user interface enables you to perform complex administration
tasks—such as creating storage pools, managing SAN volumes, setting up affinities,
and assigning quotas—that would otherwise be accessible only from a command-line
interface.
Command-line tools are also included for UNIX-savvy administrators.
Xsan Admin is easy to install and configure on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server
systems. Installation and configuration can be performed locally or remotely over
your LAN.
Real-time monitoring
Xsan Admin features real-time monitoring of Xsan SANs, providing the following
information:
• Free space in a volume or storage pool
• User quota utilization
• Graphs of processor and network utilization
• Status of file system processes
• Log file
• Connected clients
• Fibre Channel failures
• Status of Xserve RAID systems
Event notification
You can also use Xsan Admin to set status thresholds that trigger automatic notifica
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tion via email or pager. Whether a critical workstation is nearing its disk quota or your
metadata controller shuts down suddenly, the notification feature enables you to
respond to serious problems quickly.