Didier from Stormons recently got in contact (I knew a degree in French would eventually come in handy for something) to let me know that Stormons 1.3.2 GA has now been released. I’ve been meaning to give this tool a run in the lab for a while now, and I’m hopeful that I can do something in the next few weeks when work gets a bit quieter. You can download pre-compiled Windows (32 and 64-bit) binaries or Linux source code here. I won’t go into all of the features now, but here’re a few highlights:

In terms of the code, it is comprised of 43000 lines of Perl 5.14, 70 HTML reports, a multi-threaded engine and a scheduler.

Some reports offer the ability to compare configurations between two dates (helpful for trending and capacity planning).

Detailed alerts can be created.

“Storage Classes” can be created and used as a basis for Chargeback reports.

There’s a bunch of other features, including support for Brocade fabric traffic monitoring and some Nagios integration. And, as mentioned previously, there’s 70 HTML reports covering RAID Groups, CX Storage Pools, MirrorView, NetApp Volumes, Celerra LUNs, and so on. The program has been written for storage admins by a storage admin. I’m looking forward to testing it out on our CX4s, and Mat might even have a little less work to do as a result.