The company's strategy is to provide other McData switch-specific features through the software, says Steve Hindman, senior product manager for SANavigator: "What we want to do is build more capabilities in the hardware level -- in the ASICs and firmware -- and provide more intelligence in SANavigator so we can do things like chargeback, routing, and quality of service."
Meanwhile, other new features in SANavigator 3.5 provide only incremental enhancements over previous versions (see McData Ships SANavigator 3.5).
The new version provides the ability to discover and monitor Fibre Channel-to-IP gateways, although for now it can't actively manage them. The software supports Cisco Systems Inc.'s (Nasdaq: CSCO) SN 5428 iSCSI router, CNT's (Nasdaq: CMNT) FC-to-IP routers, and Nishan Systems Inc.'s 4000 series of routers. "Although there aren't a lot of people using these today, we wanted to get the plumbing into the software," Hindman says.
SANavigator 3.5 now allows role-based access, so that multiple administrators can be given separate access rights. Also new is the software's support for LUN (logical unit number) masking, which allows administrators to block or unblock access to a LUN, but currently only for EMC's Clariion and IBM Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) Enterprise Storage Server (a.k.a. Shark) systems. McData is now providing agents to communicate with other management applications, including CA Unicenter, Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) OpenView, BMC Software Inc. (NYSE: BMC) Patrol, and IBM Tivoli
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