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SMI-S Provider Installation Guide

Introduction

The Dell PowerVault MD Series storage arrays provide an industry-standard application programming interface (API) 

called the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). This interface enables third party SMI-S client 

applications to manage MD Series storage arrays in a multi-vendor storage area network (SAN) environment.
SMI-enabled management applications are known as Common Information Model (CIM) clients. To allow clients to 
manage a storage device, an SMI-S Provider (also called SMI-S Agent or CIM Agent) is required. SMI-S Providers can 
be implemented as:

A proxy interface that translates the existing API of a device to an SMI-S compliant interface. This 

implementation is the quickest path to SMI-S compliance, but a proxy provider and a Common Information 

Model Object Manager (CIMOM) must be installed on a server. A CIMOM is a CIM/WBEM infrastructure that 

receives, validates, and authenticates CIM requests from the client application. The 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 
Provider.
The SMI-S Provider provides the SMI-S interface to the Dell PowerVault MD Series storage arrays. The provider uses 
the proxy CIM Agent model and is supported on Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms only. For more information 
about the platform versions, see the Support Matrix for the MD Series storage arrays at support.dell.com/manuals.

Version Information

The following table lists the version details of the components.

Component

Version

SMI-S

1.4

SMI-S Provider

10.26

OpenPegasus 
CIMOM

2.9.1

Supported Profiles And Sub-Profiles

SMI-S Provider version 10.26 supports the following profiles and sub-profiles:

Block storage views

Thin provisioning

Replication services

Physical package

Profile registration

Device credentials

Proxy server system management

Multiple computer system

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

Страница 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...

Страница 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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Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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 ...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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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