Welcome to CAM, the Common Array Manager web log. CAM is the management software for Sun's
midrange storage arrays including the Workgroup Disk, Modular Disk, and new Storage Expansion Array lines. This blog is devoted to all things CAM -- both the free product released by Sun and the new OpenSolaris project. CAM is distributed with every new midrange storage array and is also available for download from the Sun Download Center. The OpenSolaris project is devoted to making the software and technology available to the community. CAM has been designed with an architecture that allows new device support to be added to the product through a plug-in mechanism. One of the main goals we have for the project at this point is to build up a collection of CAM plugins which would allow the software to manage many other types of storage arrays and disk systems. We are planning to release some sample plugins soon along with a toolkit that will provide documentation and guidance for writing new plugins.
CAM is java software and is supported on Solaris, Windows and Linux. It includes a monitoring agent, a web application and a command line utility. The web application currently runs in the Sun Java Web Console and the common line utility can be installed on a separate host and remotely connect to the agent. Additionally, the agent can operate in a proxy mode where it can act on behalf of an agent installed on another host. With these software configuration options CAM provides flexibility with how to arrange your disk management infrastructure. CAM offers both in-band and out-of-band management of devices. Some of the supported devices can only be managed in-band (the Storage Expansion Arrays are an example of such devices). In these cases either a proxy agent or a full CAM installation is required on the host that is attached to the storage device.
That's all for now. We hope to provide regular postings on usage, tips and tricks of the software and more detailed information on the design and implementation of the software as our OpenSolaris project evolves. Stay tuned and we look forward to your comments and suggestions.
This is awesome news now there will be a good tool to manage older arrays like the 3510/3511 series
Posted by 130.95.186.220 on August 13, 2008 at 01:11 AM PDT #
Hey, how come we can't download source code?
Posted by 128.221.197.20 on August 28, 2008 at 11:55 AM PDT #
You ruined a really good idea (common array management) with a really, truly horrible, complicated, complex, slow, inefficient technology: Java(TM).
Would it have killed you to have written the whole application in PHP? It would have been portable, would not have required any special software (like JRE/JDK/JVM), and it would have been blazingly fast, while being very economical on the system resources.
Not to mention an order of magnitude simpler. How could you choose such a horrible technology like Java(TM) to develop with? I just can't belive it.
Posted by UX-admin on September 05, 2008 at 01:30 AM PDT #
This CAM software is extremely slow. The idea behind off-array management is speed. I am pulling my hair out. What should take 1 hour now takes 3 hours, as the software is a hit and miss affair.
Posted by Christopher Young on October 03, 2008 at 06:33 AM PDT #
They have removed the RAID 1+0 for STK6140 from this CAM version..which is not good. If anyone wants RAID 1+0 what s/w should he use to do now.?
Posted by Raj on July 15, 2009 at 07:35 AM PDT #
They have removed the RAID 1+0 for STK6140 from this CAM version..which is not good. If anyone wants RAID 1+0 what s/w should he use to do now.?
Posted by Raj on July 15, 2009 at 07:36 AM PDT #