Legato sys unveils NetWorker Availability

NEW DELHI: Enterprise storage management software provider, Legato Systems India has launched NetWorker Availability, an add-on solution to its flagship LEGATO NetWorker product. Highlights of the new solution's capabilities include: automatic restart, resource monitoring and automatic alert of failed operations and optional two-server fail over.

NetWorker Availability monitors the NetWorker server and other critical resources within the data zone to assure reliable backup and recovery operations. This includes monitoring of clients, libraries, disk devices, storage nodes and resources such as CPU on the NetWorker Server host itself.

Each resource has a pre-set threshold, which can also be custom-tuned to a customer's particular environment. The customer receives a notification via an email and page alert if a threshold is ever crossed. Trends in usage of key resources are kept for up to 150 days, so that administrators can use the data to support capacity planning and to justify assignment of additional resources before those resources run out and cause failures.

In the event of server failure, NetWorker Availability provides automated restart of NetWorker services and can, as an alternative, fail over to a second server on an optional two-server configuration.

"In the amount of time it takes to notify operations staff of a system slowdown or failure, then determine the root cause of the problem and then take action, the damage is already done. Intelligent solutions that follow pre-programmed rules for self-managing and self-healing are needed to overcome these challenges at computer speed rather than waiting for humans to respond," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of system software research, IDC.

"The combination of LEGATO NetWorker with NetWorker Availability is an example of the type of solution that can prevent some types of system slowdowns and failures. Reduction or prevention of these occurrences is critical for supporting business operations as we enter into the fourth generation of distributed computing," he added.