Users Guide

Customizing unit monitors

You can customize the following parameters of the Dell MD Storage Arrays Management Pack unit monitors by using the following

overrides:

• Enabled — Allows you to enable or disable monitors. You can set the Override Setting to be True or False. The default setting is

True.

• Interval in Seconds — The frequency (in seconds) with which the management pack polls the Dell PowerVault MD Storage

Array device to check the health of a component. The default setting for monitors could range between 3600 - 4300 seconds.

Specifying override parameters for unit monitors

To specify override parameters for unit monitors:

1. In the OpsMgr console, click Authoring.

2. In the Authoring pane, select Management Pack Objects → Monitors.

NOTE: You may need to change scope to locate the unit monitors.

3. Right-click the component unit monitor you want to override and select Overrides → Override the Monitor.

4. Check the appropriate monitor parameter that you want to override and set its Override Value.

5. Save the override settings in a new management pack.

6. Click Apply.

Extracting Dell MD Storage Array IP addresses from Dell PowerVault

Modular Disk Storage Manager

The Dell_MDStorageArray_ExtractMDListFromMDSM.vbs is a VB script that is packaged in the Dell MD Storage Array Management

Pack Suite. This script helps in extracting and saving the IP addresses of Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays managed by the Dell

PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) so that they can be managed in the OpsMgr. Run this script as an

administrator from a command prompt on a system where MDSM is installed. The IP addresses are saved in the format required by

the Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite. For the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays to be discovered and monitored on

the SCOM Management Server (OpsMgr machine), copy the saved le containing the IP addresses to the OpsMgr machine and

add the contents of the le to the dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg le present in the OpsMgr machine.

NOTE: Run the script as an administrator because the script invokes smclient.exe (installed with MDSM) to retrieve the

list of IP addresses, and smclient.exe requires elevation (run as Administrator) when run from the installed folder.