EMC Symmetrix DMX-3, Product Manual

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Performance and Optimization
Solutions Enabler In order to retrieve data from a Symmetrix system and information
about databases and file systems that are to be monitored by certain
ControlCenter agents, such as Common Mapping Agent, you must
install the EMC Solutions Enabler on the host managing the
Symmetrix system (either the host running the Storage Agent for
Symmetrix or a proxy host.
Solutions Enabler provides low-level SCSI commands that
communicate with Symmetrix systems to retrieve configuration,
status, and performance information.
When you install Solutions Enabler, you are installing these
components:
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SYMMAPI — The Symmetrix Application Programming
Interface and runtime libraries.
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SYMCLI — An open systems application, written using the
SYMAPI, that manages Symmetrix systems.
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SYMAPI Server — A process that retrieves status and
performance information by polling the Symmetrix systems and
processing client commands.
Symmetrix
Management
Console Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) is an intuitive,
browser-based graphical user interface for managing Symmetrix
systems. It can be hosted on a small Windows server and accessed
using a customer’s Web browser. Symmetrix Management Console is
a graphical complement to CLI (command line interface) usage and
to full EMC ControlCenter SRM capabilities when customers need to
perform device management of a Symmetrix system. Symmetrix
Management Console is now bundled with ControlCenter
Symmetrix Manager and available to Symmetrix Manager customers
with active maintenance contracts at no extra charge.
SMC accelerates FBA and CKD device management tasks, for
example, enabling administrators to configure or replicate devices
with a few clicks and keystrokes and to duplicate devices with simple
templates containing device attributes such as capacity,
configuration, and emulation type. SMC provides realtime
monitoring and alerting on system health, director and drive status,
and SRDF/A replication operations (looking at such metrics as cache
utilization and cycle time).