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Northern Storage Reporter

Northern Parklife Storage Reporting

It is expensive and inefficient to make decisions about storage without information. Don’t manage mission critical data in the dark.

Using Northern Storage Suite’s Usage Monitoring functionality (found in the NSS:Storage Reporter component) you can:
- Reveal actual server, NAS and SAN content.
- Identify unwanted usage patterns and take immediate action.
- Tune storage management policies to better achieve strategic goals.

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Below you will find a comprehensive list of all Usage Monitoring features within Northern Storage Suite:Information-rich drill-down interface shows general storage status:

• General status – view status at enterprise, host group, host and path levels
• Distribution across data types – view usage by file type group and individual file type
• Distribution across users – view usage by user
• Largest files – view largest files at host and path levels
• Oldest files – view oldest files at host and path levels
• Customizable graphical displays – choose to display data as column chart, pie chart, a plain list or as icons

Comprehensive scheduled reports reveal specific details of your storage environment:

• File size – list all files above a certain threshold
• File accessed date – list all files that haven’t been accessed since a certain date
• File modification date – show all files that haven’t been modified since a certain date
• File creation date – report on all files that were created before, after or on a certain date
• File type – list all files of a specific type, using file extension or header data
• File backup status – show all files that have their backup attribute set or not set
• Files containing hidden streams – report on files that contain hidden streams
• File type growth rates – show the file types that have grown the most during a specific time period
• File duplicity – identify true duplicate files by matching file content, not just name and size
• Folder size – see the usage per folder
• Folder size per user – see the usage of every folder per user
• Folder size per file type – see the usage of every folder per file type
• User accounts – list all files owned by a specific user
• User accounts that are obsolete – report on all files owned by obsolete accounts
• Users that consume the most space – list the top users within your environment
• Quota report – easily see all the quotas above or below a certain size
• Exchange report – see all the Exchange mailboxes above or below a certain size
• Graphical report output – inline graphs for clearer communication
• Grouped report output – group raw data straight in the report

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