HP Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software User Guide

1 Overview
Intended Audience
The HP Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software (IIAS) is intended for customers who have HP
storage hardware in their SAN. The HP IIAS can be used to monitor and diagnose the physical
layer of Storage Area Network (SAN) in real-time, with an emphasis on the Small Form-factor
Pluggable (SFP) on FC Switch only. The solution is highly beneficial for enterprise SAN, where
SAN management becomes cumbersome and tedious.
Introduction
HP IIAS uses industry-standard protocols (such as SNMP, SMI-S, Telnet) to monitor the physical
layer (SFPs) across SAN, diagnose changes/events in SFP states/characteristics, and presents the
SAN topology, inventory, and diagnostic information to the user in real-time.
HP IIAS enables you to:
• Discover and collect data of B-Series and H-Series switches in SAN.
• Periodically monitor the SAN of an active profile as per the configured intervals.
• Monitor or diagnose, degrading or failing SFPs in an active profile.
• Generate report (current and historical).
• Notify the user on any change in the topology or SAN component state.
• Provide SAN summary in terms of component inventory.
Acronyms and abbreviations
CIM Common Information Model
CIMOM Common Information Model Object Manager
DC Data Collection
HBA Host Bus Adapter
LAN Local Area Network
SAN Storage Area Network
SFP Small Form-Factor Pluggable
SMI-S SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative Specification
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
WWN World Wide Name
XML eXtensible Markup Language
Hardware and Software for installation
The following are the system requirements for HP IIAS:
Table 1 Hardware and Software requirements
Supported platforms, versions, or configurationHardware and software requirements
Dual-core 2.0 GHz CPU or betterCPU
2 GB or higherRAM
250 MB
NOTE: Minimum 250 MB disk space is required on the drive where TEMP
folder is located.
Product installation disk space
requirements
Intended Audience 5