HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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To access the online help for Storage Essentials, access Storage Essentials, and click Help > For this
page or Help > Documentation Center. The Documentation Center provides the documentation set
for Storage Essentials, including the PDFs, online help, release notes, and support matrices.
Figure 3 Accessing the Documentation Center
To manage and monitor your elements in Storage Essentials, discover your elements.
When HP Storage Essentials is integrated with HP SIM, Discovery and Discovery Data Collection
are performed using HP SIM’s discovery user interface pages. This allows you to use credentials
and perform discovery and data collection tasks in HP SIM and enables hardware and software
health status polling, monitoring, and event management for storage, servers, switches,
infrastructure, and other elements on your network, such as enclosures, racks, clients and printers. In
addition, HP SIM provides standards-based support for HP and third-party devices and integration
with HP Business Technology Optimization (BTO) Software and other third-party management
frameworks.
IMPORTANT: When HP Storage Essentials is integrated with HP SIM, if you initiate discovery from
the HP Storage Essentials Discovery Setup page, you will significantly limit the functionality of the
integrated solution. The HP Storage Essentials discovery pages are designed primarily for HP
Storage Essentials when it is used as a standalone product. In an integrated environment, the HP
Storage Essentials Discovery Setup pages can be used for troubleshooting discovery issues specific
to HP Storage Essentials or to enable product health monitoring. For more information, see
”Troubleshooting” on page 685.
See ”Discovering Switches, Storage Systems, NAS Devices, and Tape Libraries” on page 19 and
”Discovering Applications, Backup Hosts and Hosts” on page 83.
Storage Essentials runs on a central server, and it relies upon CIM extension to provide information
about hosts and applications. A CIM extension is a small software program that gathers information
about a host and its applications. The CIM extension then provides the information it has gathered
to Storage Essentials. If you want to monitor a host and its applications, install a CIM extension on
the host. Refer to the Storage Essentials Installation Guide for more information on how to install
CIM extensions.
Storage Essentials can simplify your complex environment and lower your cost of management with
CIM-based integrated storage management. The management software integrates the management
of applications, servers, storage networks, and storage systems in a single, easy-to-implement and
intuitive solution.
The management server integrates the various components in the storage area network infrastructure
into a CIM/WBEM/SMI standards-based database, so you can eliminate any vendor