White paper HP Systems Insight Manager with HP Command View EVA HP Systems Insight Manager
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Table of Contents Terminology ................................................................................................................................... 5 HP Command View EVA overview ..................................................................................................... 7 HP Systems Insight Manager overview ......................................................................................... 8 Installing HP SIM and HP CV EVA ............
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Command View on the EVA 4400 ....................................................................................................... 37 Configuring HP CV EVA and HP SIM on different servers .................................................................. 39 Summary .......................................................................................................................................
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Executive summary Many businesses today face similar infrastructure challenges—under-utilized server and storage capacity, a great deal of time and money spent on managing the infrastructure, and a relentless demand to meet changing business needs. And with each passing year, the costs associated with the management of the server and storage infrastructure take a larger chunk out of the data center budget.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Terminology This document uses the following terms: 5 | March 2013 Term Definition ABM Array-Based Management CIMOM Common Information Model Object Manager CLI Command-line interface CMS Central Management Station CV EVA Command View EVA DESTA Distributed Enterprise Service Tools Architecture ELMC Event Log Monitoring Collector EVA Enterprise Virtual Array GUI Graphical user interface HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTPS Hypertext Transfer
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 6 | March 2013 SNIA Storage Networking Industry Association SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol SSL Secure Sockets Layer SSO Single sign-on SSSU Storage System Scripting Utility UI User interface UUID Unique unit identifier WBEM Web-Based Enterprise Management WCC WEBES Common Components WEBES Web-Based Enterprise Services WMI Window Management Interface WWN World Wide Name
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager HP Command View EVA overview The HP CV EVA software suite is used configure, manage, and monitor the EVAs, a family of advanced, enterprise storage arrays from HP. The software suite comprises the following: HP Command View EVA: Use the GUI for initial configuration, storage provisioning, and ongoing storage system management and monitoring. HP Storage System Scripting Utility (SSSU): Use the CLI to script and run repetitive and complex configuration tasks.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager HP Systems Insight Manager overview HP SIM is the foundation for the HP unified server-storage management strategy. HP SIM is a hardware-level management product that supports multiple operating systems on HP ProLiant, Integrity, and HP 9000 servers; HP MSA, EVA, and XP arrays; and third-party arrays.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Installing HP SIM and HP CV EVA For information about installing and setting up HP SIM and HP CV EVA, see the manuals available on the following webpages: HP SIM: http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html HP CV EVA: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/cmdvieweva/index.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager HP CV EVA deployment options HP CV EVA can be installed on a server called the SBM server. On certain models, it can also be installed on the EVA management module called the ABM module. The way that HP CV EVA is deployed affects the way it interacts with SIM.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Discovering EVAs in HP SIM To enable HP SIM to discover each Command View instance and the EVAs: 1. Launch HP SIM, and then select OptionsDiscovery. See Figure 1. Figure 1: Add a new discovery task—Step 1 2. To create a new discovery task, click New, and then select the option that you want (Discover a group of systems or Discover a single system). To discover a group of systems, click Help with Syntax. By default, the Schedule option is selected.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Figure 3: Add a new discovery task—Step 3 4. The newly created discovery task appears on the OptionsDiscovery page. Select the new discovery task, and then click Run Now to start the discovery and initial data collection. See Figure 1. 5. After the discovery and initial data collection is completed, click All Systems in the navigation pane to see all discovered systems. Select a system and browse through it for detailed information. See Figure 4.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Centralizing event notifications HP SIM can receive events by using SNMP or WBEM. SNMP 1. In HP CV EVA, configure the following under System Options: SNMP event notification: Select all events or specified events to be notified, and save the changes. SNMP host notification: Add the IP address of the HP SIM server, and save the changes. 2. Ensure that SNMP services are running on both the HP SIM and HP CV EVA servers.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 5. Open a command window on the HP SIM server, and then enter the following path: C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\mibs 6. Execute the mcompile command (for example, mcompile eva6400.mib). The system generates a .cfg file (eva6400.cfg in this example) and displays the following output in the command window (Figure 6): Figure 6: Compiling the MIBs in HP SIM 7. Execute the command mxmib -a (for example, mxmib –a evapamib.cfg).
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Snapshot of events from HP SIM To see all events from HP SIM, click All Events in the navigation pane. See Figure 8. Figure 8: Snapshot of events from HP SIM Sample SNMP events On the Event Details page, the SNMP event name is prefixed by “(SNMP).” See Figure 9. Figure 9: SNMP events WBEM WEBES and EVA 4400 Command View V9.1 and later for ABM includes ELMC (WCCProxy) running on the ABM. This provides WEBES with a connection point to the array event data.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager The following sections explain how to set up HP SIM and WEBES to monitor the array. Remote Support Advanced (RSA) First, you must set up the Command View Protocol credentials in the WEBES UI. This enables the correct ELMC protocol to be selected when WEBES discovers the array and ABM. The ABM firmware does not include SNMP or WBEM agents to support HP SIM communication for retrieval of hardware information. Therefore, certain fields must be set manually.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager In Figure 10, EVA is required in the Product model and Hardware description fields for the RSE check. ABM is included in this example as a way to differentiate between the ABM and the array in the HP SIM UI. Figure 10: ABM Module System Properties—Section 1 In Figure 10, the Hardware description field has also been populated for the ABM. This is not required, but it is a convenient location to add information presented in the HP SIM UI.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Figure 11: ABM Module System Properties—Section 2 The WEBES Managed Entity UI should now display the EVA 4400 array and the ABM module. Remote Support Standard (RSS) WEBES cannot obtain the entitlement information from HP SIM because it is not installed on the RSS. The Managed Entity information is entered manually using the WEBES Managed Entity UI. To add the EVA 4400 array: 1.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager These fields are required for WEBES to set up the ABM entity correctly. The information can be obtained through Command View UIarray-nameHardwareController Enclosure. See Figure 14. Figure 14: Controller enclosure information After the required information is added and saved, WEBES connects to the ABM module and discovers the EVA 4400.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager To receive events through WBEM: 1. In HP SIM, subscribe to WBEM events by selecting all of the EVAs. Then, select OptionsEventsSubscribe to WBEM Events. See Figure 16. To unsubscribe from WBEM events, select OptionsEventsUnsubscribe to WBEM Events. Figure 16: Subscribing to WBEM events from HP SIM—Step 1 2. Follow the instructions in Step 1: Verify Target System and Step 2: Task Confirmation, and then click Run Now.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Sample WBEM events Each WBEM event name on the Event Details page is prefaced by WBEM. See Figure 18. Figure 18: WBEM events Using WEBES instead of SNMP is advantageous because WEBES provides a higher-quality event as an alert indication. If WEBES is configured to send Type 3 traps, the SMI-S provider includes event severities in alert indications sent to HP SIM.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager To learn how to configure actions, select the following in HP SIM (Figure 19): OptionsEventsAutomatic Event HandlingNew Task OptionsEventsAutomatic Event HandlingE-mail Settings For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Launching HP CV EVA from HP SIM To launch HP CV EVA from HP SIM: 1. In the navigation pane, select SystemsSharedSystems by TypeStorage SystemsAll Storage Systems. 2. Select an EVA that has been discovered. In the content pane, the following tabs appear: System Tools & Links Events Essentials 3. Click the Tools & Links tab. 4. Click URL of the Command View EVA web-based element manager. See Figure 20. 5.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Configuring a trust relationship for HP SIM in HP CV EVA Currently, the SSO feature is disabled for HP CV EVA in HP SIM. However, the following procedure explains how to configure SSO in HP SIM for HP CV EVA. This feature is enabled in HP SIM 6.0 and HP CV EVA 9.2. Adding a trust relationship enables you to automatically log in to HP CV EVA from HP SIM. This feature is sometimes called SSO. HP CV EVA imports a certificate from a trusted source, such as HP SIM.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 2. Enter the HP SIM server IP address in the Server field, and then click Install Certificate. See Figure 22. The trust relationship is established successfully. See Figure 23.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Viewing EVA LUNs and storage capacity information from HP SIM To view the EVA LUNs: 1. In the navigation pane, select SystemsSharedSystems by TypeStorage SystemsAll Storage Systems. 2. Select an EVA that has been discovered. 3. In the content pane, the following categories appear on the System tab: Identification Product Description Firmware and Software revision Ports Storage Volumes Capacity Information 4.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Configuring HP CV EVA and HP SIM on a single server Port settings The default port assignment of 5989 for WBEM/WMI and SMI-S has created an issue for several versions. The following sections describe the changes that address the port-assignment issue and provide a solution for setting up HP SIM with Command View SMI-S on the same server. The installation sequence for HP SIM and Command View SMI-S on a CMS affects the default port settings.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Follow these steps to identify the port that HP SIM will use to connect to SMI-S. In this example, port 60000 is used for the SMI-S HTTPS connection to the interop namespace. 1. Open the following file: C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\config\identification\wbemportlist.xml 2.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 3. Save the changes. 4. Restart the HP SIM service. Correcting an existing HP SIM installation Important: Do not use the following procedure if this is a first-time installation of HP SIM.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager To change the WMI Mapper Proxy port in HP SIM: 1. Log in to HP SIM with Administrative privileges. 2. Verify that the credentials for the CMS are correct: a. Open the All Systems list and select the HP SIM CMS from the list. b. Click the Tools & Links tab. c. Click System Credentials. d. Select the check box for the CMS instance of WMI Mapper that is running on the local host. e. Click Edit system credentials. f.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Figure 27: WBEM/WMI Mapper Proxy—Protocol Settings Troubleshooting SIM connectivity to Command View SMI-S If the discovery process fails to find the Command View server and gather information about the EVAs, you can use the WBEMDISCO tool to determine if the SMI-S provider is responding and that the credentials are correct. WBEMDISCO is installed automatically by SIM. Using WBEMDISCO WBEMDISCO is packaged with HP SIM. To use WBEMDISCO: 1. Open a command window.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager The following dialog box appears: 32 | March 2013 4. In the Profile Name field, enter a name for the profile (optional). 5. Specify the IP address of the server on which SMI-S is installed, and the port (either HTTP or HTTPS) on which SMI-S is running. 6. Specify the root namespace for CXWS CIMOM (interop) and the SMI-S user name and password credentials. 7. Click Run.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager After WBEMDISCO has finished checking the SMI-S provider response and credentials, the following output is displayed, listing the discovered EVAs: If the credentials are not correct, WBEMDISCO displays a message similar to the following: If this occurs, verify that the HP Storage Admins group on the CV EVA server contains the specified user name and password.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Restoring defaults to wbemportlist.xml 1. Open the following file: C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\config\identification\wbemportlist.xml 2. Remove the following lines from the file: 3. Add the following lines to the end of the file.
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White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Figure 28 shows an example of SMI-S installation on an RSA host that already has HP SIM installed with WMI Mapper. Figure 28: Installing SMI-S on an RSA with HP SIM After the ports are set, you can verify them by executing the netstat command as described in Port settings. The following output is displayed: TCP 0.0.0.0:5988 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 1712 [JavaWrapper.exe] TCP 0.0.0.0:5989 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 460 [WMIServer.exe] TCP 0.0.0.0:60000 0.0.0.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Command View on the EVA 4400 The SMI-S provider cannot be installed on the ABM. SMI-S must be installed elsewhere in the LAN to serve as a proxy connection to the array. The Command View installation kit enables SMI-S to be installed on a server independently. SMI-S can be installed on the HP SIM CMS or any other server in the LAN. SMI-S includes a utility named discoverer.bat for setting up the connection to the array ABM.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Figure 30: Setting up SMI-S Proxy for ABM—Step 2 3. Select 3 to view a list of the Command View IPs. See Figure 31. Figure 31: Setting up SMI-S Proxy for ABM—Step 3 If Command View is installed on the local host that is running discoverer.bat, you will also see the IP address of the local host in this list. 4. Enter 0 to exit the discoverer.bat utility. 5. Restart the HP CIMOM service.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Configuring HP CV EVA and HP SIM on different servers When HP SIM and HP CV EVA are installed on different servers, a port conflict on port 5989 does not occur. Follow the installation procedures for HP SIM and HP CV EVA described in the installation guide.
White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager Summary The benefits of a unified server and storage infrastructure are very compelling. HP SIM, together with HP CV EVA, provides a solid foundation for a unified server-storage management strategy. Sign up for updates hp.com/go/getupdated Share with colleagues Rate this document © Copyright 2010, 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.
