I'm interested in doing the same thing with Control Center/StorageScope 6.0.

I posted this question long back and got no replies. But, I did accomplish this using the custom fields. I had to get the disk groups info from symcli and assign it to DMX disks in ECC custom fields using Controcenter cli. Then create a report in storagescope using these custom fields.

I did upgrade to ECC 6.0 later and the reports were still working.

Let me know if you need more details on this.

Karan

Hi Karen,

By reading your steps, I am still unclear on how you can create the report. Can you please show me in detailed procedures?

I am having ECCOE 6.0 with SE 6.5.2 installed...

Many thanks!

Best Regards,
Angela

Hi Angela,

Its custom queries in ECC 6.0 (I called them reports because I created them in ECC 5.2), you need to use Crystal reports to create reports in ECC 6.0.

Anyway here's how I did it, I found this procedure in an old white paper on custom reporting (Manage_Report_CLARiiON_Arrays) which I can't find now on powerlink.

1. Import the Custom field definitions into ECC (try emc204583)

2. using cli export the ECC identifier file

\Tools\utils\CustomFields\customFieldsUtil -export eccexport.csv "ArrayDevice"

3.Associate the object identifiers to the values i.e. diskgroup number

you need to associate the diskgroup to each device in the following order in the .csv file

Object,Object_id,Object_description,Custom_field_definition,Value

you can get the list from symcli using

#symdev list ¿disk_group <#>

4. using cli import the new associated file

\Tools\utils\CustomFields\customFieldsUtil -import

5. Now you can create your custom query using the custom fields

you need to select custom fields in the step 2 of creating/modifying a query and create a query to list unallocated devices using the disk group as filter or you can use subtotal on the disk group column.

Let me know if you have more questions regarding the procedure.

Karan