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

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NOTE: The management server uses the Windows SNMP trap service when you run HP
SIM and HP Storage Essentials on a Windows server or when the property
cimom.winsnmpTrapService=true is set. The Windows SNMP trap service is not used
on Solaris servers.
Discovering McDATA and Connectrix Switches through a Direct Connection and SNMP
The management server uses SMI-S or SWAPI to discover a McDATA or Connectrix switch through a
proxy. If you want to discover McDATA or Connectrix switches directly, you must change the
discovery settings to SNMP before you begin the following steps. See ”Changing the Discovery
Settings” on page 43. See the support matrix for your edition for McDATA switch details (Help >
Documentation Center in HP Storage Essentials).
To discover a McDATA or Connectrix switch directly:
1. Make sure there are no port conflicts for receiving SNMP traps. When the management server is
configured to contact the proxy by SNMP, it receives events from the proxy in the form of SNMP
traps. By default, the management server uses port 162 to receive SNMP traps. If another
software package is using that port, the management server is unable to receive the traps. For
information about changing the port, see ”Changing the SNMP Trap Listener Port and
Community String for Switches Discovered with SNMP” on page 46.
2. Set up the proxy to send traps to the correct port. When you are using the SNMP setting to
discover a proxy, you must configure the SNMP agent on the proxy manager to send traps to the
management server using the port you selected. This configuration then sends traps from all
switches managed by that proxy. See the proxy documentation for more information.
NOTE: The management server uses the Windows SNMP trap service when you run HP
SIM and HP Storage Essentials on a Windows server or when the property
cimom.winsnmpTrapService=true is set. The Windows SNMP trap service is not used
on Solaris servers.
3. Enter the following information in HP SIM
• The IP address or system name of the switch you want to discover.
• The user name for accessing the switch. The default user name is public (the read-only
community string).
• Enter anything as a password; HP SIM does not allow an empty password field.
Changing the Discovery Settings
To change the discovery settings for McDATA and Connectrix switches:
1. If you have already discovered your switches, delete all McDATA and Connectrix switches as
described in ”Deleting Discovered Elements” on page 78.
2. Select Options > Storage Essentials > Manage Product Health, and click Advanced in the Disk
Space tree.
3. Click Show Default Properties at the bottom of the page.