HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.4.1-00 User Guide (TB581-96337, March 2013)

2 Discovering, registering, and adding
management targets
This module describes how to discover SAN resources, such as storage systems, and hosts.
Registering storage systems
This module describes how to register storage systems.
About registering and removing a storage system
Registering (discovering) a storage system in Command View AE Suite enables you to manage the
storage system's resources, including:
• Parity Groups
• LDEVs
• Volumes
• THP/Smart pools
• Resources available through external storage connections
When you specify IP address (or host name) and authentication information for a storage system, the
storage system is discovered based on the specified information. For SMI-S enabled storage systems,
the SMI-S provider's IP address is used for discovery.
Note that information about a storage system can be changed after the storage system is registered.
If managing a storage system with Command View AE Suite is no longer necessary, for example
because of reorganization, you can remove the registered storage system. Removal will result in the
following:
• Configuration information such as parity groups, volumes, and allocated paths will be retained
in the storage systems themselves.
• When storage systems are excluded from management by Command View AE Suite, the information
set in Command View AE Suite, such as tiers and data placement profiles, is deleted.
Prerequisites for registering a storage system
Before you can discover and register a storage system, you must collect and confirm the following
storage system information:
• Storage system type.
• Storage system IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) or host name (alias name).
• User name and password for the storage system management tool, such as Remote Web Console.
• Host name (alias name) or IP address for the SMI-S provider (IPv4 or IPv6), user name, password,
port number (for SMI-S Enabled storage systems).
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