Foglight for Storage Management Shared 4.8

For supported Solutions Enabler and SMI-S provider versions for each VMAX array, see Collection Target Support Matrix. Contact EMC Customer Service to enable SMI-S Provider on the service processor. EMC requires involving EMC Customer Service when starting and stopping Solutions Enabler services and the SMI-S Provider.

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Foglight for Storage Management requires an SMI-S account with the Monitor role. For help setting up a monitor account, see the SMIS Provider Release Notes.


	IMPORTANT: EMC has deprecated some storage systems with the 8.0.1 release of Solutions Enabler. For more information refer to https://support.emc.com/docu55547. An EMC support account is required. As a result, customers wishing to monitor any VNX array or any CLARiiON CX, CX3, CX4, AX, AX4 series array must use a 7.6.x release of Solutions Enabler.

Configuring Agents to Monitor EMC Storage Arrays (SMI-S)

During this procedure you configure the agent to use SMI-S to collect from the Array Management Host that monitors the arrays. For details, see Configuring Agents to Monitor Storage Devices.

Configuring the SMI-S Provider for EMC CLARiiON or VNX

The SMI-S Provider has a programmatic interface that enables management applications that are integrated with the provider with the ability to discover CLARiiON or VNX storage arrays out of band. This discovery method does not require that a CLARiiON or VNX LUN be visible to the host on which the SMI-S Provider is running—only the IP connection to the storage array is required.

You must provide the following information:

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The IP address of SPA and SPB of the CLARiiON or VNX array to be managed.

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The username and password of the CLARiiON or VNX array that has administrator-level privileges with global scope.

EMC offers the TestSmiProvider tool for adding CLARiiON and VNX arrays to the SMI-S Provider.

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On Windows platforms, the TestSmiProvider.exe resides in c:\program files\emc\ecim\ecom\bin.

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On Linux platforms, TestSmiProvider resides in: /opt/emc/ECIM/ECOM/bin

For more information, see the SMI-S Provider Release Notes.

To configure SMIs collections for the EMC array:

Set up the SMI Provider.

The following testsmiprovider program is interactive and provides acceptable defaults. Press return on each line (change the password if needed):

C:\Program Files\EMC\ECIM\ECOM\bin>testsmiprovider

Connection Type (ssl,no_ssl,native) [no_ssl]\:

Host [localhost]:

Port [5988]:

Username [admin]:

Password [#1Password]:

Log output to console [y|n (default y)]:

Log output to file [y|n (default y)]:

Logfile path [Testsmiprovider.log]:

(OUTPUT)

Connecting to localhost:5988

Using user account 'admin' with password '#1Password'

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## EMC SMI Provider Tester ##

## This program is intended for use by EMC Support personnel only. ##

## At any time and without warning this program may be revised ##

## without regard to backwards compatibility or be ##

## removed entirely from the kit. ##

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slp - slp urls slpv - slp attributes

cn - Connect dc - Disconnect

rc - RepeatCount st - Set timeout value

ns - NameSpace ens - EnumerateNamespaces

ec - EnumerateClasses ecn - EnumerateClassNames

ei - EnumerateInstances ein - EnumerateInstanceNames

a - Associators an - AssociatorNames

r - References rn - ReferenceNames

gi - GetInstance gc - GetClass

lc - Log control dv - Display version info

ind - Indications menu sl - Start listener

addsys - EMC AddSystem refsys - EMC RefreshSystem

disco - EMC Discover remsys - EMC RemoveSystem

im - InvokeMethod tms - TotalManagedSpace

q - Quit h - Help

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Namespace: root/emc

repeat count: 1

(localhost:5988) ?

Test the provider to be sure it is working.

If you successfully connected to the SMI-S Provider, issue the dv command to list basic information about the provider and any attached storage arrays:

(localhost:5988) ? dv

++++ Display version information ++++

CIM ObjectManager Name: EMC:10.247.73.48

CIMOM Version: EMC CIM Server Version 2.6.6.1.0.3

SMI-S spec version: 1.4.0

SMI-S Provider version: V4.6.1.0

SMI-S Provider Location: Proxy

SMI-S Provider Server:

Windows_NT l2se0048 6.1.7600 x86_64 (64bit Libraries)

Solutions Enabler version: V7.3-1300 1.0

Retrieve and Display data - 1 Iteration(s) In 0.109006 Seconds

Press the enter key to continue.


	IMPORTANT: In the above example, the SMI-S Provider is not aware of any attached storage arrays.

Add the storage arrays to the provider.

Use the addsys command to attach a CLARiiON or VNX array to SMI-S Provider. This command is not for Symmetrix arrays. The following provides an example of attaching an VNX array to the SMI-S Provider:

(localhost:5988) ? addsys

Add System {y|n} [n]: y

ArrayType (1=Clar, 2=Symm) [1]:

One or more IP address or Hostname or Array ID

Elements for Addresses

IP address or hostname or array id 0 (blank to quit): 10.247.73.78

IP address or hostname or array id 1 (blank to quit): 10.247.73.79

IP address or hostname or array id 2 (blank to quit):

Address types corresponding to addresses specified above.

(1=URL, 2=IP/Nodename, 3=Array ID)

Address Type (0) [default=2]:

Address Type (1) [default=2]: