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Dell PowerVault MD Series Storage Arrays
SMI-S Provider Installation Guide

Summary of Contents for PowerVault MD3060e Series

Page 1: ...Dell PowerVault MD Series Storage Arrays SMI S Provider Installation Guide ...

Page 2: ...on are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc Microsoft Windows Windows Server Internet Explorer MS DOS Windows Vista and Active Directory are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the United States and or other countries Novell and SUSE are r...

Page 3: ...ed Profiles And Sub Profiles 5 Installing And Uninstalling The SMI S Provider 6 System Requirements For SMI S Provider 6 Installing SMI S Provider 7 Configuring CIM Server 7 Uninstalling SMI S Provider 9 Managing The SMI S Provider 9 Starting And Stopping The OpenPegasus CIM Server 9 Troubleshooting The SMI S Provider 10 ...

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Page 5: ... CIMOM directs the requests to the appropriate device provider A native feature of the storage device API This implementation is sometimes referred to as an embedded agent Dell MD Series SMI S Provider is implemented as a proxy interface The Dell SMI S Provider referred to as SMI S Provider runs on a server on the storage network OpenPegasus CIMOM is installed during the installation of this SMI S...

Page 6: ...ent Memory 1 GB minimum 2 GB recommended Connectivity Ethernet with 100BASE T minimum Gigabit Ethernet preferred and TCP IP Port TCP port 5988 or TCP port 5989 or any other available port if these ports are not available Storage array password The device credentials profile requires the storage array password SharedSecret to modify operations The SMI S Provider persistently tracks an instance of t...

Page 7: ...installation you can delete the installation executable file Installing SMI S Provider For Linux Based Operating Systems To install the SMI S Provider 1 Move the SMI S Provider RPM package file into the file system on the server where you want to install SMI S Provider 2 Run the following command rpm ivh rpm package name rpm To change the OpenPegasus CIMOM configuration see Configuring CIM Server ...

Page 8: ...SLP is started when cimserver starts false true false false External Pegasus SLP registration runs in cimserver with a default registration timeout set to 3 hours same as the SLP default timeout false false true false External OpenSLP registration is run in CIM server false false true true External OpenSLP registration is attempted and falls back to external Pegasus SLP registration if it fails de...

Page 9: ...ice and select start or stop 3 To start a service run the following command in the command prompt net start cimserver 4 To stop a service run the following command in the command prompt net stop cimserver Starting And Stopping The OpenPegasus CIM Server For Linux Based Operating Systems 1 To start the OpenPegasus CIM server run the following command on a terminal window cimserver 2 To stop the Ope...

Page 10: ... conflict remove the application that is using the port or select a different port To select a different port 1 Stop the CIM server 2 Set the new ports using the following commands cimconfig s httpPort HTTP PORT p imconfig s httpsPort HTTPS PORT p 3 Start the CIM server CIMOM default port in use is not reported in the Microsoft Windows operating system In Windows if the default ports 5988 and 5989...

Page 11: ...ilure Update the Property Secret with the current storage array password in the OEM SharedSecret instance by using Modify Instance CIM You can perform this operation from the client used for communicating with SMI S Provider for example CIM Navigator The following message is displayed when you use the CIM CLI application roundTripTime is incorrect in ClientOpPerformanceData You can ignore this mes...

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