Monitoring CX3-80 with SCOM

Ian,
Welcome to the forums. I believe you will need to setup a management station. It could be a PC or VM (or a VM running Windows XP), and does not have to be a server. IIRC you need to setup a portal running the navi agent software and designate the workstation as a portal in Navisphere.

In the Navisphere online help there is a section on Managing Storage Systems and a subsection on Managing Portals. See if that is what you need for the SCOM connection for monitoring.

Aran

Hi Ian

Ive just been setting this up myself and the instructions are a little frustrating. To this point I have the Windows box receiving events from the Clariions, but Im waiting for our SCOM guys to work their SCOM 'magic' to confirm it all works

This is my setup:
VM Windows 2003 Server with Navisphere Agent installed, you do not need the Navisphere server utility. Ensure the agent.config file has an entry for each SP of each Clariion you wish to monitor.

In Navisphere Manager, ensure each SP on each clariion has the system@ of the windows hostadded in the SP Properties-> Agent tab.

Create the windows host as a portal, so follow the steps in Portal Configuration, to add the host to a storage system. (This seemed a little back to front to me but it worked)

Under the "Monitors" tab, import the SCOM_template.tpl
If the windows host was added as a portal as above it will now show as a 'monitor', right click the windows host and select "Select Global Template" and choose the SCOM_Template.

Right click again and choose "Monitor System" add the storage arrays you wish to monitor to the Windows host as well.

I also edited the SCOM_Template to include monitoring of the Test Event (Informational event id 0x2004) so that I can fire off test events on the clariions and I see them appear on the windows application event log. However the SCOM Management pack does not include this test event so thats about where Im up to.

Hope this helps a bit.

If anyone has done it differently I'ld be interested to hear. To date we have used distributed monitoring not centralized and I havent yet worked out the impact of this setup.

Cheers

Steph

Hi Steph,

Thanks for your help - I am getting an error when trying to apply the SCOM template 'logging events to system log by agent on SP is not supported'
There is another SNMP template applied that works fine - can I apply more than 1 ?
I'm not all that familiar with EMC and am trying to work my way through the process and hope you could clarify some of the points below...



<<< Same I have VM 2003 with Navisphere agent, Navisphere Off-array management & UI & the SCOM agent installed

Yeah - this one stumped me for a while.



- check this one.


- Make sure you have an entry for each Storage Processor on the CX, so two entries per array.


In navisphere Manager, Select Tools, Portal Configuration, RIght Click on Portals -> Add Portal you get prompted to add one of your arrays. Then right click the array after you have added it and select Add Storage System, make sure 'agent ' is selected at the top, and go to the lower half of hte pane and insert the IP of the WIndows host - it will then show in the selected system panel.

You can then go back to the Monitors tab in the main Enterprise Storage window and the windows host should appear here. Now you can assign the SCOM_Template.tpl to the Windows host, you may need to import it into Navisphere Manager.

You cant monitor a storage array directly with the SCOM Template, because you are not allowed to write to the event log of the storage processors.


SCOM_Template.tpl goes to Navisphere manager and the .mp goes to SCOM



Cheers

Steph

Hi Steph,

Thanks that helped make things a lot clearer - I successfully added my Navisphere VM as a monitor, and eventually got the SCOM template applied but an error popping up in the console:

"Error saving configuration - monitor busy"

Is that just because the SP is busy doing something ?

Cheers,
Ian