HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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When you use the management server to discover the CLARiiON storage system, provide the IP
address for the CLARiiON storage system and the user name and password used to log into
Navisphere.
Discovering LSI Storage Systems
When discovering LSI storage systems, note the following:
• Discover all controllers on an LSI storage system by entering the IP address of each controller.
The management server discovers these controllers as one single storage system.
• The management server must have the User Name box populated to discover the LSI storage
system. Even if your LSI storage system does not have a user name set, you must enter something
in the User Name box.
• To obtain drive-related statistics, install a proxy host. Ensure that the proxy host has at least one
LUN rendered by each controller of the array.
• A license key is required for each storage system. The key is obtained from the web site specified
on the Activation Card that shipped with your storage system.
• LSI storage systems do not require a password for discovery data collection. If you do not want
to use the management server for provisioning on LSI storage systems, select the Do Not
Authenticate option. The management server will still monitor the LSI storage system; however,
you will not be able to do provisioning tasks.
• After discovering LSI controllers on an LSI array, the array is displayed as having three controllers
on the HP SIM All Systems page. Two of these elements are displayed as unmanaged, but one is
displayed as the accessible storage system for the array.
• If an LSI storage system that has two controllers with different IP addresses is discovered and
identified with one password, and you change the password on the array and for both
addresses in HP SIM, the password might not be updated correctly in HP Storage Essentials. In
this case, subsequent data collections will fail, and the array might be reported as missing. To
work around this, delete the array access point on the HP Storage Essentials Discovery Data
Collection page (Options > Storage Essentials > Discovery > Run Discovery Data Collection) and
then rediscover the array in HP SIM.
Discovery Information for LSI Storage Systems
To discover LSI storage systems, enter the following information in HP SIM:
• IP address or system name of the controller or proxy you want to discover.
• User name for the storage system. Even if your LSI storage system does not have a user name,
you must enter something in the User Name box.
• HP SIM does not allow blank passwords. If the storage system does not have a password, you
can enter any value in the password field.
Discovering HDS Storage Systems
HiCommand Device Manager is required for the management server to communicate with an HDS
storage system. To discover an HDS storage system, enter the IP address, user name, and password
for the server running HiCommand Device Manager. Do not point to the disk array for the storage
system.