Press Releases for New Products
June 2001

Connex Unveils SANavigator Lite

Connex announced its SANavigator Lite storage management application, designed for entry-level storage management. According to the company, SANavigator Lite provides many of the storage management features of the company's SANavigator software to smaller SAN installations

SANavigator Lite, like SANavigator Version 1.5, is a Java-based storage management application that operates as a host for other storage management applications, utilities, and tools from other storage vendors. It includes an Auto Discovery feature that performs a complete inventory of all SAN and NAS resources. The SANmap component of SANavigator Lite presents a visual map of the SAN showing all devices and their interconnections.

According to the company, one of SANavigator Lite's features is its ability to automatically discover direct-attached Fibre Channel devices. This gives entry-level SAN customers an opportunity to test Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) or other SAN devices before they invest in a complete SAN architecture that incorporates fabric devices.

Like SANavigator, SANavigator Lite supports all Microsoft Windows platforms (98, NT, and 2000), Solaris, and Linux. SANavigator Lite is fully interoperable with other storage management applications and can be utilized to launch operations such as serverless backup using third-party backup software. SANavigator Lite provides storage management functionality, but does not include the Data Path Map, Event Notification, Trap Forwarding, Community Strings, and SNMP Listen Port Change features included with SANavigator. Additionally, SANavigator Lite does not have the ability to change the port on which SANavigator listens for SNMP traps. According to the company, when a SAN grows to the point that these management features become necessary, a manager can simply upgrade to SANavigator.<>