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HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 Installation Guide vii

Testing your SMI-S Providers (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Configuring the Selective Discovery Filter (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Configuring the HP SIM Connector to Pass Devices with the DNS Name (Optional) . . . . . . . . 110

Signing in to HP SIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Enabling Product Health Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Discovering the HP Storage Essentials Management Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Discovering Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Discovering Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Discovering Brocade Switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Migrating Brocade API Switches to SMI-S

After Upgrading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Discovery Information for Brocade Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Discovering CNT Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Discovery Process for CNT Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Discovering Cisco Switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Discovery Information for Cisco Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Discovering Sun StorEdge, QLogic and HP StorageWorks M-Series for p-Class BladeSystems . 123

Discovery Information for Sun StorEdge, QLogic and HP StorageWorks M-Series for p-Class

BladeSystem Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Discovering McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Discovering McDATA and Connectrix switches with SMI-S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

SMI-S Discovery Information for McDATA and Connectrix Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Discovering McDATA and Connectrix Switches through a Proxy with SWAPI . . . . . . . . . . 127

Discovering McDATA and Connectrix Switches through a Proxy with SNMP . . . . . . . . . . 128

Discovering McDATA and Connectrix Switches through a Direct Connection and SNMP . . 129

Changing the Discovery Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Excluding McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches from Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Managing McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Adding McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Removing McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Replacing McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Changing the SNMP Trap Listener Port and Community String for Switches Discovered

with SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Discovering Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Discovering 3PAR Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Discovering EMC Solutions Enabler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Excluding EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems from Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Excluding EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems from a Forced Device Manager Refresh. . . . . 137

Discovering EMC CLARiiON Storage Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Discovering LSI Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Discovery Information for LSI Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Discovering HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Discovery Information for HDS Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Excluding HDS Storage Systems from Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Excluding HDS Storage Systems from Force Device Manager Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Discovering HP Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Discovering HP StorageWorks MSA Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142