Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite Version 6.0 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager User's Guide
- Overview
- Using Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite
- Related documentation and resources
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix a — enabling external program tasks
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Using Dell MD Storage Array Management
Pack Suite
This chapter describes the various operations that you can perform on the OpsMgr using the Dell MD
Storage Array Management Pack Suite.
The management pack suite enables you to:
• Discover and provide detailed inventory information of the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays. For
more information, see Discovery.
• Monitor the health of the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays and its constituent components. For
more information, see Monitoring.
• Monitor the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array devices for SNMP traps in OpsMgr 2012 consoles. For
more information, refer Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite Version 6.0
Installation Guide.
• Launch Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array discovery utility through a console task. For more
information, see Launching the Dell Discovery Utility from the OpsMgr console.
• Customize parameters of the MD Storage Array Management Packs by using overrides. For more
information, see Customizing the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array Management Packs.
Discovery
To discover Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays in the network, an important prerequisite is the IP listing
file; dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg that contains the IP addresses of the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays.
NOTE: For information on Dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg file, see Discovering Dell PowerVault MD
Storage Arrays.
The default IP listing file, Dell_MDStorageArray_ip_sample.cfg is available on the management server
where you have installed the Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite. This file provides the
reference format in which the IP addresses have to be provided in the IP listing file;
dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg.
Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays discovered in MDSM can be monitored in OpsMgr by using the Dell
PowerVault MDSM IP list extraction utility. This utility extracts the IP addresses of the Dell PowerVault MD
Storage arrays into the file; Dell_MDStorageArray_IPList.cfg. This file has contents in the format that is
recognized by Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite version 6.0. The contents of the file output
from the utility should be appended to the contents of the Dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg file. For more
information on running the Dell PowerVault MDSM IP list extraction utility, see Extracting Dell MD Storage
Array IP addresses from Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager.
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