SYMCLI access to V-MAX service processor-based SMC?

Alan,

Paul, thank you for answer.

Is there chance that this would be possible in the future?

It does not look to be such a major work for the server to run in the service processor, is it?

Voutsinas,

I can't really speculate on whether or not this will ever be the case, however you could submit and enhancement request through powerlink and see what engineering come back with.

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Paul

Hmmm... they probably want to make sure they can do whatever they need to on the SP without worrying about external processes or scripts. If they need to reboot the SP they don't want to have to wait for some customer script running on another system through the SYMAPI server to complete first.

I guess it does make some sense from that perspective :-(    Doesn't make me happy, but it does make sense.

I think you've got the point ... SP is simply a tool in CS hands... You beloved customer can't rely on SP to manage your storage.

And don't forget that frequently you have to install antivirus/patches/updates on any host connected to customer network. And I bet EMC prefer keeping SP out of customer network even for this reason...

Welcome back Stefano! Haven't heard from you in a while.

I was of the same opinion about keeping the SP off our internal network, but just recently I discovered that we are going to have to put it on the network anyway. We are implementing the Secure Gateway Service for "dial home and dial in" capability over the internet and the only way to get rid of the MODEM on the Symms is to put them on the network.

Besides, by putting SE and SMC on the SP they are making the SP available for customer use in configuring the Symm... I think they just want to make sure that it is only used for hands on sessions, and not relied on to support any kind of scheduled scripting. It the only thing I can figure.

Glad to have you back around here again Stefano!

I have been wondering if we can do that, but I've got to get my network guys to talk to my ESX guys to see if we can put the right VMs on the right ESX pods to have access to the right network interfaces (both external and internal) at two remote sites.

We'll see what they can come up with.

Allen ...you can put Sp on private network as long as your ESRS gateway has connectivity to private and public. I am using VM connected to two virtual switches, one is private network 192.168.1.x (this is where I put all my EMC gear (Symm sp, Clariion SPs, Centera) and one interface on virtual switch connected to public network. Has been working great for 2 years.

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Stefano,

missed you for a long while.. Hope you are doing well.