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17 Dell Compellent Storage Center Management Pack 3.0 for Microsoft SCOM 2012/R2 Best Practices
The WMI Data Collector Providers shows all detected WMI Providers in the environment.
Figure 8 WMI data collector provider details
Note: The status of both the Data Collector and WMI Provider must show as healthy for the
Management Pack to receive any Storage Center data.
In situations where SCOM cannot communicate with the Data Collector, the entry for the Data Collector
will show a greyed out status. In most cases, this indicates a problem with the Microsoft monitoring agent
on the Data Collector server, but could be indicative of a problem with the SQL database. Please refer to
Section 6 of this document for troubleshooting steps.
Figure 9 Data collector communication problems