HP Storage Essentials V5.00.01 installation guide (T4283-96011, January 2006)

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IMPORTANT: EMC customers using the EMC Connectrix Manager (EMC’s rebranded EFCM)
cannot use the EMC Fibre Zone Bridge (EMC’s rebranded Bridge Agent) to discover EMC switches
using SWAPI. The McDATA SWAPI library is incompatible with EMC’s Fibre Zone Bridge Agent.
If the Fibre Zone Bridge Agent is not installed or not needed, you can uninstall the Fibre Zone Bridge
Agent and install McDATA’s Bridge Agent. The McDATA Bridge Agent will work with EMC’s
Connectrix Manager, but it cannot co-exist with EMC’s Fibre Zone Bridge Agent.
If you are running Connectrix Manager and you need to have the EMC Fibre Zone Bridge Agent
running, you will not be able to discover EMC switches using SWAPI. You must discover them
through the SNMP provider, either directly or through a proxy. See ”SNMP Setting Through a Proxy”
on page 59 for more information about using the SNMP provider to discover switches through a
proxy. See ”Contacting a McDATA or Connectrix Switch Directly” on page 62 for more information
about discovering switches by their IP address.
NOTE: Neither McDATA nor EMC officially support running the EMC Connectrix Manager with
the McDATA Bridge Agent. Although this configuration has been tested for discovering EMC
switches using SWAPI, you should check with your EMC or McDATA representative to determine the
implications of this configuration.
Step 1 - (McDATA Switches Only) Install the Bridge Agent
To communicate with EFC Manager, the management server requires the Bridge Agent. Refer to
your McDATA representative for more information about the Bridge Agent.
Step 2 - Change the Discovery Setting for McDATA and Connectrix
Switches to SWAPI
To change the discovery settings to SWAPI:
1. Click Options > Storage Essentials > Manage Product Health. Then, click Advanced
in the Disk Space tree.
2. Click Show Default Properties at the bottom of the page.
3. Copy the following property. How you copy the text depends on your Web browser. If you are
using Microsoft Explorer or Netscape Navigator, select the text and then right-click the selected
text. Then, select Copy.
cimom.useSnmpMcDataProvider=FALSE
4. Return to the Advanced page (Options > Storage Essentials > Manage Product
Health. Then, click Advanced in the Disk Space tree).
5. Paste the copied text into the Custom Properties field. How you paste the text depends on
your Web browser. If you are using Microsoft Explorer or Netscape Navigator, right-click the
field and select Paste.
6. Uncomment the cimom.useSnmpMcDataProvider property by removing the number sign (#)
in front of cimom.useSnmpMcDataProvider.