What’s new in CommandCentral Storage 5.1
CommandCentral Storage 5.1 contains and builds upon CommandCentral Storage
5.0 functionality, providing several new features.
Management and discovery
CommandCentral Storage 5.1 introduces the following management and discovery
features.
Enhanced agentless discovery of storage resources
If you do not install the CommandCentral managed host on hosts in your storage
network, the CommandCentral Management Server can discover those hosts and
their connections to storage resources through agentless discovery.
The process involves creating a user-created host in order to associate the
unidentified adapter (HBA) discovered through switch discovery to the host to
which it connects. In previous versions of CommandCentral, you could do this
one host at a time. Now, CommandCentral 5.1 provides you with the ability to
create multiple hosts at once and to automate the process by creating rules and
importing information from a CSV file.
For more information about this feature, see the CommandCentral Storage User’s
Guide.
Detection of configuration related changes to storage arrays
In CommandCentral Storage 5.0 MP1, explorers initiate discovery of devices based
on the explorer’s polling interval. The polling interval is the amount of time that
the explorer waits to initiate discovery of the device. For example, the polling
interval might be 180 minutes.
In CommandCentral Storage 5.1, explorers continue to initiate discovery of devices
based on the explorer’s polling interval; however, for certain array explorers, you
can also enable change detection. When you enable change detection, explorers
listen to SNMP traps or frequently poll storage arrays—for example, every 15
minutes—in order to detect configuration related changes to that array—for
example, masking changes. When the explorer detects configuration related
changes to the storage array, the explorer initiates a full discovery of the array.
For example, if you enable change detection for EMC CLARiiON storage arrays,
by default, the explorer listens for SNMP traps from CLARiiON storage arrays.
When the explorer detects changes, it initiates discovery of the array. Because
the explorer discovers the changes in near real-time, CommandCentral Storage
can provide you with more up-to-date information about the storage array. In
contrast, if you do not enable change detection, discovery occurs only when the
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