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SolarWinds Storage Manager powered by Profiler Administrator Guide

2  Using STM • Oracle ® • SQL Server ® • Microsoft ® Exchange 2003 • Microsoft ® Exchange 2007 SAN and NAS: • 3Par • Dell™ EqualLogic™ •

92  Using STM 4. Click Run Report. The capacity planning results display a "Before and After" chart similar to the below example. Thin

Storage Manager  93 The legend for thin provisioning is as follows: • Used Space is the actual amount of space used. • Free is the physical amoun

94  Using STM • Poller: Select the poller you want to collector data. A poller is an agent that has been licensed to monitor the VMware infrastruc

Storage Manager  95 a. Select the Virtual Centre Instance in the top drop down, you should see ESX Hosts appear. b. Select the ESX Hosts you wan

96  Using STM Application Monitoring The following sections detail how to configure devices for application monitoring. MS Exchange 2003/2007 MS Ex

Storage Manager  97 4. When Exchange data gathering occurs at the next scheduled time, exchange module will start collecting data from the server

98  Using STM 7. Click Finish. This will allow the exe to log in and collect storage data. Adding an Oracle Device The STM Server has the capabil

Storage Manager  99 • param16 = ..\WEB-INF\lib\profiler-poller-4.9.2.jar;..\WEB-INF\lib\profiler-commons-4.9.2.jar; [shortened for example ]..\..

100  Using STM • Licensing: Check this box in order to assign a STM Right To Use (RTU) license to the Oracle device. If you don't check thi

Managing Storage with STM  101 Chapter 8 Reports and Schedules STM has the ability to email or print either the Main Console screen or individual d

Storage Manager  3 • QLogic switches • Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) (Emulex® and QLogic) Backup Profiler Backup Profiler requires purchase and is li

102  Managing Storage with STM • Quick Reports - Predefined reports STM uses a consistent format to display and manage reports regardless of whic

Managing Storage with STM  103 Selecting the My Reports option will allow the user to Edit, Delete, Schedule and Run any reports created by that us

104  Managing Storage with STM • Publish: How you want to publish the report when it is executed. • Email Report - send the report in an email t

Managing Storage with STM  105 Note: Remember, users can only see devices that are in the same groups as the user. If a user is restricted to just

106  Managing Storage with STM 8. Click Continue. 9. Enter a name for the report. 10. Click Save. The report will appear on the My Reports list.

Managing Storage with STM  107 Select Enterprise > Storage > Volume Usage Forecast and then click Continue: Next, select the columns you wan

108  Managing Storage with STM Next, select the sorts and filters for the report, allowing us to narrow the output to exactly what we want. Ente

Managing Storage with STM  109 The basic query you will build is "Volume Name like C: AND % Used > 90". So for the first part select

110  Managing Storage with STM Now save the report and your page should look like this. Available actions: • Save Report - saves the report and r

Managing Storage with STM  111 You have the ability to group filters, so you can do "Find all (C: OR D:) drives that are over 90%". S

4  Using STM STM Server The STM server consists of a MySQL Database, Tomcat Web Server, Collector, Poller, Event Receiver, and a Maintenance proce

112  Managing Storage with STM Using Groups The Grouping functionality allows an administrator to define a logical organization and permission stru

Managing Storage with STM  113 One way to think of a group is as a bucket. You place all the objects that logically belong together into a single b

114  Managing Storage with STM • When creating a device, if you do not associate it with a group you have defined, and then it will be associated

Managing Storage with STM  115 • Backup Client: All backup clients, including monitored and unmonitored devices (a monitored device has an agent,

116  Managing Storage with STM 4. To save the new group click the ‘Save’. The group list will reappear with the new group in the list. 5. To ca

Managing Storage with STM  117 The File Type Groups Page displays the existing File Type Group Names. To edit a File Type Group click the edit ico

118  Managing Storage with STM • Snap Mirror Monitoring The following section details how to create new rules. To create a new rule: 1. Click Set

Managing Storage with STM  119 File Analysis Rule The File Analysis Rule lets you define rules that will provide detailed file information. STM c

120  Managing Storage with STM • Created Age: If you leave the value set at 0, then all files will be evaluated, and considered potentially valid,

Managing Storage with STM  121 • File Types: A list of file types (extensions) returned by the rule. The files can be selected by using filters ba

Storage Manager  5 • Maintenance • Webserver STM Agents OS Agents reside on operating systems and provide two functions. • • Agents gather asse

122  Managing Storage with STM To assign shares for NetApp: 1. Go to Settings > Assign Remote Shares and choose the following (changes in sele

Managing Storage with STM  123 1. You can narrow it down the shares by using the regular expression filter. a. Select the shares you want. Yo

124  Managing Storage with STM SnapMirror Monitor The SnapMirror Monitor shows the current transfer between the source and the destination for all

Managing Storage with STM  125 • Event ID: The event ID you wish to monitor. • Record and Notify: The types of events you would like to either re

126  Managing Storage with STM Minimum File Count: numeric values that you would like to set in order to filter out directories that do not contain

Managing Storage with STM  127 Directory Path Regular Expression: A regular expression that you can set in order to restrict the directories consid

128  Managing Storage with STM a. Rule Name: Enter the name of the rule. b. Find the X Y files with: X represents the max number of files reporte

Managing Storage with STM  129 g. File Types: A list of file types (extensions) returned by the rule. The files can be selected by using filters b

130  Managing Storage with STM • Send Trap: Send out SNMP trap. Using External Scripts The STM Server has the capability to manage external script

Managing Storage with STM  131 IMPORTANT: An agent can belong to only one policy. If you move an agent from one policy to another, all settings (ev

6  Using STM Chapter 2 Installation Storage Manager is composed of two separate components that will need to be installed. The server install and

132  Managing Storage with STM Monitoring: You can also monitor the push list to see the progress of your configuration. From the push report, you

Managing Storage with STM  133 4. Define any necessary configurations and then click Push. 5. The Push List Report link displays a list of pushed

134  Managing Storage with STM 3. To edit a section click on the icon. Once you have completed setting all the parameters you can push one or m

Index  135 Chapter 10 Linux Installation The following sections detail the installation steps for LINUX. Note: 32bit agent/server should only be

136  Index Note: In case of RHEL 5/OEL 5 install, certain libXP packages are not installed along with the default RPM Packages. These are needed f

Index  137 1. Login as root. 2. Execute the install binary: # ./Storage_Manager_Agent-linux-x86_32.bin 3. Installation may take several minutes

138  Index # ./Storage_Manager_Server-linux-x86_32.bin 3. Installation may take several minutes. You will be prompted for the following: Destin

Index  139 Backup Profiler Requirements • CA ARCserve • CommVault • EMC/Legato NetWorker • IBM TSM • Symantec Backup Exec • Symantec Veritas N

140  Index Supported Platforms Windows Requires Agent? No – to collect Activity, Configuration, Media Yes – on CommServ to collect exceptions/erro

Index  141 Agent? Prerequisites • Account to access TSM database with operator privileges • Location of TSM BA client install (on proxy agent/mas

Storage Manager  7 Storage Manager System Requirements Verify that you have downloaded the correct versions for your environment and that your syst

142  Index Supported Platforms Windows, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX Requires Agent? Yes – on Master Server Requires a Proxy Agent? N/A Prerequisit

Index  143 6. Right click the offline Server and select Add a Device > Generic Service. 7. Select SolarWinds Storage Manger Agent Service fr

144  Index 10. Next you will need to login into Storage Manager web console, then click Settings > Device Management> All Devices > Cho

Index  145 12. Click Next and Save.

146  Index Appendix Appendix SMI-S Provider Installation & Configuration This section covers the installation and configuration of SMI-S Pr

Index  147 A: A provider is a CIMServer which handles CIM requests from a CIMClient. Using the vender’s API, the provider connects to the device an

148  Index SMI-S Providers The following sections detail various vendors SMI-S Provider installation steps and troubleshooting FAQs. 3PAR Provider

Index  149 Login using the username and password setup on the Array. You should see the following after successfully logging in. Note: By defau

150  Index A: Logon to provider as described above and call “help”. For help on a particular command, type “help <command>” where <comman

Index  151 a. All Programs > Administrative Tools > Local Policies > User Rights Management. b. Double click on Log on as a service Pol

8  Using STM Storage Manager Server STM Server Operating System Production : Windows 2003, 2008 (32 & 64 bit) Linux Red Hat, SUSE (32 &

152  Index a. Click Service from the left pane. b. Click Change at the bottom right in the Data Collector Service Properties. This allows you

Index  153 a. Change directory to <Compellent install folder >\Compellent Enterprise Manager\msaservice\Pegasus\bin b. Type: cimuser -a –

154  Index a. Login to SolarWinds Storage Manage. b. Click Home on the upper left or go to Settings on the upper right and Click Getting Start

Index  155 Answer: Step through the configuration steps and make sure everything is configured correctly a. Check the Task Manager . Process list

156  Index Release Notes: Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Software ~ S ~ Documentation > SMI-S Provider &

Index  157 Installation On Windows 1. Download the software from the Powerlink website. 2. Save all files and exit all Windows applications. Lau

158  Index 01 EMC Solutions Enabler V7.0.0.0 SMI KIT V4.0.0.0 #-------------------------------------------------------------------

Index  159 CLARiiON out-of-band Note: out-of-band CLARiiON are arrays which do not have any LUNs presented to the host where the provider is runnin

160  Index Installation on Windows 1. Double click the installer. 2. Click Next on the “Welcome” screen.

Index  161 3. Choose a location to install to at the “Destination Folder” screen. 4. Click Next

Storage Manager  9 • 1 additional Agent per 200 VM • Poller/agent: Single/Dual Processor, 2GB of RAM Large Installation: Up to 30,000 disks Wind

162  Index 5. Click Install at the “Ready to Install the Program” screen. 6. You should see the “Installing EMC Solutions Enabler with SMI” sc

Index  163

164  Index 7. Click Finish at the “InstallShield Wizard Completed” screen. Installation on Linux 1. Untar the kit by typing: tar –xvf <filen

Index  165 3. When the installer is finished, you will see the following: 4. Logging In 5. Run the TestSmiProvider.exe (located <install dir

166  Index 6. Accept defaults for host, connection type, port, username and password. Adding A SAN Symmetrix & CLARiiON Out-of-Band Note: O

Index  167 5. Type in the IP address of Storage Processor A and Storage Processor B if Clariion. Type the array id for Storage Processor A and Sto

168  Index 8. Confirm the array to be added is locally attached. <install_dir>\SYMCLI\bin\syminq –cids There should be at least one

Index  169 The 6.4.2 SMI Kit and higher has an auto-synchronization mechanism, which by default is one hour after the last update (this option is c

170  Index 3. Run EMC TestSMIProvider and run the command ‘dv’. Make sure all array are discovered without any errors. 4. Make sure Performance

Index  171 1. Click Start. Click Run. Type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK. 2. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings. 3. On the

10  Using STM Primary Communication Ports: • HTTP Port 4319 (configurable) – handles requests from STM Server Collector • UDP Port 162 (configu

172  Index 3. Click Properties. 4. Click Network. (This will show the IP address for spA). 5. Do steps 2 – 4 for spB. Q: The server where we p

Index  173 The observed behavior is consistent with the way Clariion works. On Clariion, it is possible to see the primordial pool with RemainingMa

174  Index ‘SymDevMaskLoginHisto The VCMDB_RESTRICTED bit on symm 000187751584 is set, only records for this host will be returned’ This message m

Index  175 5. Change the port0 and port1 tag values to ports currently not in use. For Example:<ECOMSetting Name="Port0"> <

176  Index 2. Start  <install_dir> ECIM/ECOM/bin/sm_service start ecom.exe On Unix: 1. Stop  Obtain the PID of the ECOM process an

Index  177 4. Run TestSMIProvider and add your arrays. Troubleshooting EMC Version Pre-4.0.0 Q: I want to monitor a Symmetrix V-Max Array. Which

178  Index <install_dir>SYMCLI/storbin/stordaemon shutdown all 2. Start  <install_dir>SYMCLI/storbin/cimserver -start e

Index  179 Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Provider The following section detail installation steps for Windows. The HDS provider is part of the HiComma

180  Index 3. Accept the license agreement. Click Next. 4. Select Disable SNMP trap function if port 162 is in use. Otherwise, skip this step.

Index  181 Note: Disabling SNMP function has no effect on SMI-s provider.

Storage Manager  11 Versions/Models 2003, 2007: Mailbox Analysis Server and Application Performance Attachment Analysis (Ver. 2003 only) Requires

182  Index 5. Choose the Destination folder for HiCommand. Click Next.

Index  183 6. Choose the destination for the HiCommand Suite Common Component database. Click Next.

184  Index 7. Choose the destination for the HiCommand Device manager database. Click Next.

Index  185 8. Specify the IP address of the machine HiCommand Device Manager is being installed on and Port for HBase Storage Management Web Servi

186  Index 9. Click Next at the adding to the windows firewall exceptions screen.

Index  187 10. Select YES for enabling the SMI-s provider service after installation. Click Next.

188  Index 11. Select NO for SSL, unless a secure connection is needed. Change port if needed. Click Next.

Index  189 12. Depending on the Array type, a Device Manager agent may be needed. If it is needed, select yes and specify an IP address. Refer to t

190  Index 13. Select YES for the SLP function to be enabled after installation. Click Next.

Index  191 14. Select YES to start the HiCommand Suite to start after installation. Click Next.

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12  Using STM Communication SQL Queries over IP Oracle: Versions/Models 10G, 11G Requires Agent? No Requires a Proxy Agent? Yes – via STM

192  Index 15. Click Install at the Pre-Installation Summary page.

Index  193 16. Click Next at the Secure Socket Certificates Note.

194  Index 17. Click Finish. If you are using installing HDS 6.3 Device Manager Q: How do I enable the provider? A: 1. EditC:\ProgramFiles\HiCo

Index  195 3. Click Add Subsystem. 4. Select the Type of subsystem to be added. 5. Type in the IP Address of the Controllers. 6. Click OK.

196  Index 7. Click OK when asked “Are you sure”.

Index  197 You should see:

198  Index 8. Click Close. Troubleshooting HDS The following section details troubleshooting steps for HDS.

Index  199 Q: Which HDS arrays need a Device manager agent for performance metrics to be gathered from? A: Refer to the following image (USP V/VM,

200  Index Q: What should I do if the test results window returns blank and I am using an admin ID to access the device manager? A: Save the resou

Index  201 Q: Will disk or controller performance be available? A: No. HDS does not plan to support those metrics via smi-s. Q: Is performance sup

Storage Manager  13 Other System Requirements: • VMware Requirements • Fibre Channel Requirements • Port Requirements STM Server Data Collector

202  Index AMS2100, AMS2300, AMS2500 WMS WMS100 SMS SMS100 Note: Midrange arrays: 9200 (thunder) 9500 (thunder) 9900, 99

Index  203 A: Steps to change the memory settings - from "Device Manager Server Installation and Configuration Guide" 3.1.2.3 Setting M

204  Index Restart the Device Manager server as follows: Select Start, Programs, HiCommand, Device Manager, and then Stop Server. After the Devic

Index  205 Select Language.

206  Index Click Next at the introduction screen. Accept the License agreement. Click Next.

Index  207 Accept the license key agreement. Click Next. Choose Install Set. Check EVA PerfMon and SMI-S Cimom. Click Next.

208  Index Keep in mind the Security Groups Configuration for post installation. Click Next. NOTE: Post install, follow the steps in the “Adding U

Index  209 You will be presented with the following during the install. Click Done.

210  Index Adding Users to HP Groups The following section details how to add users to HP groups.. Right click “My Computer”. 1. Click Manage.

Index  211 2. Click “Local users and Groups”. 3. Click Groups.

14  Using STM • EMC Symmetrix, DMX, VMAX: Configurable: 5988 (HTTP) or 5989 (HTTPS) used by EMC Solutions Enabler. • HP EVA: Configurable: 5988

212  Index 4. Double Click “HP Storage Admins”. 5. Click Add. Enter the names to be added.

Index  213 6. Click OK. 7. Click OK. This will return you to the Computer Management screen. Double click HP Storage Users. Follow the steps for

214  Index A: For Command View version 7.0 or below: The user must be a valid local system user(domain user is not enough). User ha

Index  215 Performance data is not available if firmware is ‘6110’. This is due to a known issue where port WWN is zero. Solution is to upgrade to

216  Index a. Stop the HP StorageWorks CIM Object Manager service (Services window) b. Change the parameters cxws.http.port and cxws.https.po

Index  217 2. Set the path to the specified directory as in the following example: Installed Path\Hewlettpackard\ SMIS\CXWSCimom\bin 3. Enter the S

218  Index Information collected successfully Location: C:\Program Files\Hewlett- Packard\SMI -S\support_ d200896_t105335.zip Note: Make sure the

Index  219 If it is not found to the valid Command View EVA Server IP, add the correct IP using ‘discoverer.bat’ . Then remove the invalid IP.

220  Index Q: How do I install the trust certificate between provider and command view? A:Please select the "Server Options" in the CV

Index  221 - Command View version info - If it is an issue with performance, include the output of the following evaperf commands. • a. evaperf

Storage Manager  15 Downloading the Installer To download the Storage Manager installer, you will need your SolarWinds ID (SWID) and password to lo

222  Index Finding a Management Node To find a management node for a specific cluster 1. Click on the node and check the Status on the Details

Index  223 Enabling SNMP: You need to have SNMP enabled and also allow the respective proxy agents to access the information. After adding perm

224  Index Note: Community Strings are CASE sensitive and need to reflect their case sensitivity in Profiler as well. To check if proxy agent is

Index  225 Add proxy agent IP to Access Control list: From the Edit SNMP Settings page, click Add. This will bring you to the Add SNMP Client pa

226  Index The proxy agent IP should now be in the Access Control list. The last step is to copy these SNMP settings to the rest of the nodes wit

Index  227 Once you click copy the configuration is copied to all the nodes selected. You should now see the proxy agent IP in each node's Ac

228  Index Note: The Bundle and LIC are firmware versions for the array. The compatibility matrix shows the minimum and maximum for the specific

Index  229 A: “IBM System Storage CIM Agent for DS Open API x.y Pegasus Server”, where x.y is the version. Q: Where are the logs located? A: <i

230  Index Q: In what release did the CIM Agent become embedded in the HMC (Hardware Management Console)? A: Starting with Release 2.4 (Bundle 6.2

Index  231 A: For DS8000 release 4.0 and earlier, the CIM agent administrator and storage administrator are required to create and maintain user pa

16  Using STM For example: If you install the 32bit version of Profiler on a 64bit system, download the STM5.0 64bit version and run the installer

232  Index IBM SVC Provider The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) SMI provider is embedded in each cluster. Note: Older versions of SVC have anothe

Index  233 A: No. The CIMOM is a core part of the SVC Console so you have to upgrade it as a part of your Console upgrade. The supported upgrade pa

234  Index New Provider (Eagle 5) downloads are located here: http://support.netapp.com/apbu/oemcp/protcd/ After logging in to the site, click the

Index  235 2. Click Next at the “Introduction” screen.

236  Index 3. Accept the License Agreement, Click Next.

Index  237 4. Click Install. Add the IP addresses for the Array Controllers. Save and close Notepad.

238  Index Click Finish at the “Install Complete” screen. Installation for Linux The following section details the installation steps on a Linux s

Index  239 Adding A SAN These following steps are taken for the arrays added during installation. Installation on Windows 1. Run the ArrayManage

240  Index 3. Stop the cimserver with /opt/lsi/pegasus/bin/cimserver-s 4. Start the cimserver with /opt/lsi/pegasus/bin/cimserver start Legacy

Index  241 3. Click Next at the “Introduction” screen.

Storage Manager  17 1. If you downloaded the product from the SolarWinds website, complete the following steps: a. Navigate to the location of yo

242  Index Accept the License Agreement, Click Next.

Index  243 Choose the Install location, Click Next. Click Install at the “Pre-Installation Summary” screen if the summary is correct. You should

244  Index

Index  245 Add the IP addresses for the Array Controllers. Click OK.

246  Index Click Done at the “Install Complete” screen.

Index  247 Installation on Linux 1. Untar the Linux_Installer_xx.xx.xx.xx.tar file. 2. Execute the install executable. Adding A SAN The fol

248  Index 5. Type the Array Password. Linux 1. Run the /usr/engenio/SMI_SProvider/bin/ProviderUtil script. 2. Type the default username, p

Index  249 5. Type the array password. Obtaining Array Identifier CIMWorkshop The LSI Provider has CIMWorkshop enabled, located: C:\Program File

250  Index 2. Double click on the Storage Array name (You should be taken to the Logical / Physical View, like below). 3. Right Click on the S

Index  251 4. Scroll down to Storage array worldwide name (ID) under Summary for All tab. Common Array Manager 1. Login to Common Array Manager a

18  Using STM Installing the Storage Manager Integration Module on your Orion Server If you are using an Orion product (NPM, APM, etc…) with Core 2

252  Index 2. Remove the colons for providing the identifier within Profiler as shown below

Index  253 Troubleshooting LSI New Provider Eagle 2 Q: What is the default username/password? A: admin/admin Q: What is the default namespace?

254  Index A: See section above “Adding a SAN” under the “Provider Version Eagle 2 and above” section. Troubleshooting LSI Legacy Provider (Pre-

Index  255 Note: Changes to the tracing level requires a restart of the provider to take effect. The SMISProvider.log file is created if you have d

256  Index Array Perf: smi-s Controller Perf: calculated by Profiler. Aggregate the performance values for all the luns that belong to specific c

Index  257 Q: How do I get the LSI provider to work on Solaris? A: For Solaris 10, you will probably need to change the port the lsi provider liste

258  Index A: Run /opt/engenio/SMI_SProvider/bin/ProviderUtil You must provide ip address of the controller, and also a valid username/password th

Index  259 A: Solaris changed the default way services can be started/stopped in Solaris 10 (via service management facility: smf). SMF avail in S

260  Index A: Copy/paste following script to new file on system. Script from unknown source#!/bin/ksh line='-------------------------------

Index  261 Q: Since provider is embedded in the controller, is there a way to manually start/stop the provider? If so, how? A: You can restart th

Storage Manager  19 3. Click "Enter Registration Key" and then paste the string you copied from the customer portal. As long as the St

262  Index A: They are located on the pilot (if you can ssh to it) under /var/log. They can be obtained via "Collect System Information"

Index  263 Clone LUN Fibre Channel Protocol NDMP NFS Pilot SSH Acc

264  Index This button serves several purposes: 1. Verifies connectivity to provider by checking: a. username/password b. namespace

Index  265 <java bin dir>\java -classpath .;mod.sys.smis.Smis.jar;.\lib\sblim-cim-client2-2.0.9-INTERNAL-r1.jar;..\..\lib\core.jar TestProvid

266  Index 6. Once connected, you should see the following. Obtaining Array Identifier (enumerating instances) 1. Type ein at command prompt.

Index  267 1. Unzip the wbemservices-1.0.2.bin.zip 2. Open the wbemservices-1.0.2.bin directory. 3. Edit cimworkshop.bat located in the bin dire

268  Index If you wanted to connect to the namespace root/cimv2 on the host named crawfish using http on port 5988, you would specify the host as:

Index  269 3. Click OK. You will be taken to screen below: 4. Click the Magnifying Glass looking icon or Action > Find Class. Search for cim_

270  Index 6. Right Click cim_computersystem in the “class schema” tree menu. 7. Click “Show Instances”. You will find the Array Identifier /

Index  271 Follow the instructions in the EMC Provider > Installation section on where to download and how to install this utility. Obtaining A

20  Using STM 4. Repeat the process for each key you want to activate (1 Storage and 2 Backup Categories). 5. Enter the Registration informatio

272  Index 2. Type “ens” to get a list of namespaces. 3. Type “ns” to change namespaces Note: the default namespace for this utility is root/

Index  273 4. Restart ECOM Remote Agent Upgrade Utility Note: This section only applies if your agents are older than version 4.12. In the legacy p

274  Index The utility will provide a log directory to monitor the upgrade progress. Note: Before installing an agent you need to edit the Default

Index  275 The web properties file contains the URL location of the server where online help for SolarWinds products are stored. The default locati

276  Index Index Index A adding scripts 78 agent installation 15 upgrade utility 15 asset change rule 77 C configuring Profiler 19 D data retent

Index  277 rules and alerting 66 S scheduling rules 77 server setup 30 SMI-S Provider Installation 42 CLariion arrays 47 LSI arrays 43 NetApp Ops M

Storage Manager  21 1. Verify the version of the agent in the Devices page. 2. If the agent version does not match the current version, then move

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22  Using STM 2. Complete or change the following info: a. Server IP Address: The Server IP Address of the server where the agent resides. Note:

Storage Manager  23 • To remove a device from a group, simply click the group name in the Selected field and it will move to the Available field.

24  Using STM Note: When Storage Manager is configured to use LDAP authentication, then the domain is assumed by Storage Manager based on those set

Storage Manager  25 3. Replace the data directory (see section above for paths) with the backed up directory 4. Restart MySQL 5. Restart STM ser

26  Using STM Chapter 3 Web Console Navigation The STM Web Console provides a consolidation of information about your enterprise. The left naviga

Storage Manager  27 Virtualization: Settings: Provides quick access to all the STM settings. Storage Summary Page: Server Monitor

28  Using STM The Server Monitor page list the monitored servers and displays condition levels which are represented by various status icons. Back

Storage Manager  29 SnapMirror Monitor The SnapMirror Monitor shows the current transfer between the source and the destination for all the filers

30  Using STM Adding Users Managing Existing Users Adding Users To add a new user: 1. Click Settings > Manage Users 2. Click Add New User a.

Storage Manager  31 In addition, STM allows you to select the type of data a user can see. • Backup - Backup Servers and Clients • Device - All D

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32  Using STM 5. You may edit the email address of the user or add new email addresses. Multiple email addresses and aliases can be entered if nec

Storage Manager  33 The Getting Started page allows you to add devices at any time. To begin Network Discovery 1. Click Discover 2. Add IP range

34  Using STM Note: When VC is assigned it will do an additional discovery in which additional ESX servers discovered will need to be configured on

Storage Manager  35 After entering the necessary information, the device will appear in the device list for management Clicking the icons below al

36  Using STM Deleting Device To delete a device from STM, return to the device screen and click the trash can icon. A dialog box will appear reque

Storage Manager  37 Data Retention Policies Data Retention Policies allow Administrators to define the duration that they wish to keep each kind o

38  Using STM Chapter 4 Server Setup Define the parameters of your Storage Manager server. These parameters are separated into the following functi

Storage Manager  39 • Auto Assign OS License determines if STM automatically assigns an OS RTU License when it registers an agent. Default is yes.

40  Using STM • NetBackup: Treat job exit code 1 as lets the administrator determine whether or not an exit code 1 should be logged as a success o

Storage Manager  41 • NetBackup:Exclude Exit Codes from Final Status summary Reports This parameter will exclude all the exit codes added in this

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42  Using STM • File Age Categories sets the coding thresholds for File Age reporting values in reports. • Always Pre-Select All NAS Shares dete

Storage Manager  43 • CPU Error Minimum sets the minimum CPU Busy for a HIGH Error threshold. • CPU Warning Minimum sets the minimum CPU Busy fo

44  Using STM Server Settings The Server settings control the overall behavior of the collector, the SNMP and DNS Poller, how the server sends emai

Storage Manager  45 • Collector Frequency allows administrators to specify the maximum time between collection attempts, ranging from 30 minutes t

46  Using STM • LDAP Server Display Domain name Provide display name for LDAP server • LDAP Server URL Provide URL for LDAP Server • LDAP Serv

Storage Manager  47 Virtualization Settings • VM Age Categories by Boot Time sets the coding thresholds for VM Age Categories by Boot Time reporti

48  Using STM

Storage Manager  49 Chapter 5 Monitoring Storage Arrays STM monitors arrays in a variety of ways – SMI-S, SNMP, API, Telnet/SSH, and each method c

50  Using STM Xiotech 3D 4000 and Emprise Web Services No Storage Array Requirments The follwing is a list of requirements needed to monitor your

Storage Manager  51 Actions Ports Used Configurable: 5988 (HTTP) or 5989 (HTTPS) used by 3PAR provider. Communication • See the STM Ports section

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52  Using STM available upon request. Usually provided just the root login • Add Proxy agent to list of trusted hosts on the NetApp storage system

Storage Manager  53 Prerequisites • IP Addresses of Controller A (SPA) and Controller B (SPB) • Identify firmware/Flare code of array and confirm

54  Using STM • CommandView ID and Password for the provider. • Define user account on Command View EVA managing EVAs. Local user for CV-EVA v7.x

Storage Manager  55 Credentials Account and password stored in Profiler database and configuration files on proxy agent using custom encryption Rea

56  Using STM Windows/UNIX server that has IP connectivity to SVC Credentials Account and password stored in Profiler database and configuration fi

Storage Manager  57 a role with access to execute specific API calls. List available upon request. Usually provided just the root login • Add Prox

58  Using STM • IBM 3xxx,4xxx,5xxx Arrays • IBM SVC • EMC CLARiiON • Hitachi • HP 3PAR • NetAPP • NetAPP Flier • Pillar Monitoring IBM 3xxx

Storage Manager  59 2. From the dropdown list select LSI and click OK. . 3. Click the Configure a LSI Array link. 4. Enter the following sele

60  Using STM a. Server IP Address: Select the agent you want to monitor the Array - b. Device Display Name: Type a descriptive name for the LSI

Storage Manager  61 6. Click Save to save the configuration and push it out to the agent to begin monitoring the array.

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62  Using STM Note: Click Test to test the connectivity between the agent and provider, and if successful, display the identifiers from the arrays

Storage Manager  63 2. Select the Array type from the dropdown, click OK 3. On the New Device page, provide the appropriate values for the fol

64  Using STM • Server IP Address: Select the agent you want to monitor the Array - • Device Display Name: Type a descriptive name for the Clar

Storage Manager  65 Provide the appropriate information about the array you want to monitor. If you are unsure about a value, do not change the va

66  Using STM • User Name: Type the user name used to access the provider • Password: Type the password used to access the provider • Provider

Storage Manager  67 2. Select the Array type from the dropdown, click OK, then click Configure a NetApp Operations Manager. 3. On the New Devi

68  Using STM Provide the appropriate information about the array you want to monitor. If you are unsure about a value, do not change the value fro

Storage Manager  69 Monitoring NetAPP Filer The process of adding NetApp is made easier in STM, using the DFM Operations Manager which discovers al

70  Using STM Pillar The Pillar SMI Provider is embedded in the array, so there no separate installation required. Upgrades for the Provider are bu

Storage Manager  71 The following items are required before you begin: • Switch IP Address. This IP must be accessible via telnet from the select

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72  Using STM include proxy agent(s)'s IP address to the list Credentials • SNMP community string for each FC Switch • Zoning (v4.8+): Login

Storage Manager  73 • McDATA Switch: Check this if the device uses the FIBRE-CHANNEL-MGMT MIB rather than the standard Fibre Alliance MIB (for exa

74  Using STM Chapter 6 Backup Profiler The Backup Console summarizes a backup cycle (24-hour period that begins at the start of the backup windo

Storage Manager  75 • Equivalence can be set using the following command from the windows command line: (If you are logged in as a user who has no

76  Using STM a. Server IP Address: Select the agent you want to monitor b. Device Display Name: Type a descriptive name for the ARCServe device

Storage Manager  77 No Job Id Job Type Job Status Job Owner Start Time End Time Set Name 1 13 Backup Finished Caroot

78  Using STM 1. On the New Device page, provide the appropriate values for the following fields: • Server IP Address: Select the agent you want

Storage Manager  79 • CommVault Database Port: Database Port. This can be found by checking the Dynamic Port under the TCP IP properties in SQL Ne

80  Using STM • Backup Start Window: Select the Backup start time. This should be the approximate time backup jobs start for the day. If backups r

Storage Manager  81 dsmadmc id = < username > -password = < password > q actlog the output looks like Date format will be MM/dd/yyyy

Storage Manager  1 Chapter 1 Introduction to SolarWinds Storage Manager powered by Profiler SolarWinds Storage Manager (STM) is designed to give us

82  Using STM • DSM Directory path: Type the Directory path to dsm.opt file. • Has Oracle Clients: If the user wants to combine the RMAN pieces f

Storage Manager  83 • Enable Server Exception: You can turn off Server level exceptions messages by selecting False, which will ignore all the ANR

84  Using STM • Log Directory : Type the directory where log files are written (default on Windows is "C:\Program Files\Legato\nsr\logs"

Storage Manager  85 The following items are required before you begin: • Supported versions: Symantec Backup Exec 8.5, 9, 10, 11, 11.5, 12, 12.5

86  Using STM • Version of Backup Exec: Select the Backup Exec version from the drop-down menu. • Prefix of the Backup Exec Logs: Type the prefix

Storage Manager  87 • If Backup Exec is on Windows and the Backup Exec version is 9.x - <start_time> Backup started on 1/7/2008 at 12:00:

88  Using STM • Backup Exec Media polling Frequency : The frequency at which Backup Exec media would be polled. 4. Click Save to save the config

Storage Manager  89 Provide the appropriate information about the backup agent you want to monitor. If you are unsure about a value, do not change

90  Using STM Chapter 7 Monitoring VMware This section covers the following topics: • VMware Configuration • VMware Requirements • Virtualiza

Storage Manager  91 The STM Virtualization Dashboard provides quick views into your current virtualized environment including: • Asset Summary (in