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Host monitoring

You can verify that a host is available and correctly configured by accessing the list in the appropriate Hosts window for storage systems, vFiler units, and Open Systems SnapVault systems.

The NetApp Management Console data protection and provisioning capabilities regularly check for updates to configuration information. This data is gathered from SNMP queries by system monitors. The monitors update the DataFabric Manager server database at scheduled intervals. The NetApp Management Console data protection and provisioning capabilities query the DataFabric Manager server database for the information that is then displayed in NetApp Management Console.

Because the NetApp Management Console data protection and provisioning capabilities do not query the hosts directly but rely on the scheduled monitors, the configuration information displayed in the Hosts windows is not real-time data. Therefore, this data might not reflect recent changes made to a storage system or configuration and could be outdated by a few minutes or a few hours, depending on the changes made.