Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for MS Windows

For more information on Configure or Repair Agents, see HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 User Guide at
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html and the HP Systems
Insight Manager help system.
Setting up managed storage systems
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
standard that enables interoperable management for storage networks and storage devices. HP Systems
Insight Manager uses this standard to discover and manage the storage systems it supports.
You must have a storage system’s WBEM SMI-S provider installed and configured on a managed node for
HP Systems Insight Manager to discover SAN storage. This includes storage devices such as Fibre Channel
disk arrays, switches, tape libraries, or hosts (with Fibre Channel host bus adapters.)
See the HP Systems Insight Manager SMI-S Provider webpage, http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim/providers,
to view the latest information regarding HP Systems Insight Manager support for a particular device. This
webpage offers information on obtaining, installing, and configuring SMI-S providers.
Installing SMI-S providers
Each storage vendor provides the SMI-S provider and installation instructions for its storage system. The
webpage referenced in the previous section provides information on obtaining SMI-S providers. Also, consult
the storage vendor’s website or representative for more information regarding their SMI-S providers. For
each storage system:
1. Verify that the applicable SMI-S provider is installed.
2. If the SMI-S provider is not installed, obtain and install it per the vendor’s installation instructions.
Verifying SSL
HP Systems Insight Manager requires that Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is enabled for the SMI-S provider in
order to discover and manage the storage system that the provider supports. Verify that SSL is enabled for
each SMI-S provider.
Configuring SMI-S providers
Occasionally, it might be necessary to modify an SMI-S provider’s port number or password. Use the
provider’s documentation to perform these modifications.
For example, if two CIMOMs exist on the same host, you must configure them to use different ports to
communicate with the CMS.
Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems
After verifying that each storage system’s SMI-S provider is installed and configured, configure HP Systems
Insight Manager to discover the storage systems.
Procedure 4-1 Configuring HP Systems Insight Manager to discover the storage systems
1. Enter the user name and password for each provider’s SMI CIMOM in the Default WBEM settings
section on the Setting Global Protocols page.
2. Add each SMI CIMOM IP address to the Discovery task or to the Creating a New Discovery task.
See the HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/
management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.
HP Systems Insight Manager discovers the storage systems after the next automatic discovery task. If you
want to discover your storage systems immediately, run the discovery task as described in the “Running a
Discovery Task” section of the HP Systems Insight Manager 6.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/
products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.
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