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

Discovering Switches, Storage Systems, NAS Devices, and Tape Libraries60
NOTE: The user name and password must be for a Partition Storage Administrator account.
Discovering IBM Storage Systems and IBM SAN Volume Controllers
Before you can discover an IBM storage system or an IBM SAN Volume Controller, you must have
the IBM CIM agent installed.
Installing the IBM CIM Agent for IBM Storage Systems
This section describes how to install the IBM CIM agent for versions earlier than 5.2.1 for IBM
Storage Systems.
It is best not to install the IBM CIM agent on the HP Storage Essentials management server. For more
information, see the CIM Agent for DS Open (API) - Installation and Configuration Guide for details
on configuring the CIM agent. Briefly, this procedure entails:
1. Installing the software (ESS devices only).
The installation checks for the existence of the ESSCLI. If the ESSCLI is not installed, installation of
the CIM agent cannot proceed.
2. Configuring the protocol and ports used to communicate with the CIM agent.
You can change the CIM agent port value, protocol (HTTP/HTTPS), and enable or disable the
debug option. Unless a secure connection is required between the management server and the
CIM agent, it is best to use port 5988 and protocol HTTP.
3. Changing the default authentication method in order to discover the CIM agent.
a. Stop the IBM CIM agent service, and then edit the cimom.properties file in
C:\Program Files\IBM\cimagent.
b. Open the cimom.properties file and change the following property to false:
DigestAuthentication=False
4. Using the setuser command to configure a user to access the CIM agent.
The user credentials specified here are used to access the CIM agent and are specified in the HP
SIM discovery task. The credentials are not necessarily the same as those used to login to the
ESS Specialist management utility or the DS Storage Manager.
5. Using the setdevice command to configure the ESS and DS devices that are managed
through the CIM agent.
The setdevice command requires a valid user with the necessary privileges to access and
configure the ESS or DS storage systems.
a. Navigate to \Program Files\ibm\cimagent\setdevice.
b. Do one of the following:
• For ESS devices, enter cmd addess <ipaddress> <username> <password>
where ipaddress is the IP address of the management console server of the ESS device
and username and password are the management console credentials.