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Required Roles and Permissions for Hardware and Storage Monitoring

KB1295 - Oct 14, 2022 - Last reviewed on Mar 17, 2023

Type: Best Practice

Description: This articles outlines the roles or permissions required to monitor Dell EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NetApp, Pure, and RedHat systems.

Additional Keywords: Hardware, Storage, Storage Analyzer KM, Storage All-in-One ETL

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The KMs and ETLs developed by Sentry Software leverage the instrumentation layer provided by the manufacturers to collect hardware and storage information. Depending on the platform to be monitored, specific roles and permissions may be required for the user account used to monitor the systems. Refer to the table below to know the roles and permissions required for the most common manufacturers and systems:

Model Example Protocol Default Port Minimum Role Required Sentry Software's Products Additional Notes
Dell Compellent SC9000 HTTPS 3033 Reporter
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
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Dell Compellent SC9000 WBEM 5989 Administrator
  • BMC Discovery (Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager pattern)
Dell EMC Isilon - REST 8080 Audit Admin
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (EMC Isilon REST pattern)
 KB1250
Dell EMC PowerStore 1000T REST 443 Operator
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery
Dell EMC Unity 300F WBEM 5989 Operator
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
Dell EMC Symmetrix/VNX VMAX250F WBEM 5989 Monitor
  • EMC Disk Arrays KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • EMC Disk Arrays KM
  • BMC Discovery (EMC Symmetrix, CLARRiiON and VNX pattern)
 KB1052
Dell EMC Symmetrix/PowerMax VMAX250F REST 8443 Monitor
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
Dell EMC VNX VNX5300 WBEM 5989 Monitor
  • EMC Disk Arrays KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • EMC SMI-S Agent ETL
  • BMC Discovery (EMC Symmetrix, CLARRiiON and VNX pattern)
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Dell EMC ScaleIO - REST 443 Monitor
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (Dell EMC ScaleIO/VxFlex/PowerFlex pattern)
 Account must be created via SSH on the Metadata Manager, e.g. scli --set_password --username user --mdm_ip 10.0.10.110
Dell EMC Xtremio - HTTPS 443 Read Only
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • Hitachi Device Manager ETL
  • BMC Discovery Hitachi G-Series pattern)
Hitachi G series G200 WBEM 5989 Storage Administrator (View Only)
  • Hitachi Disk Arrays KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Hitachi Device Manager ETL
  • BMC Discovery (XtremIO Rest pattern)
Hitachi G series G200/G350 REST 23451 Storage Administrator (View Only)
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
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HP MSA P2000 G3 MSA P2000 G3 WBEM 5989 Manage
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • BMC Discovery (HP MSA pattern)
 SMI-S access is required. By default, only the "manage" role has SMI-S access.
HP 3PAR 7200 WBEM 5989 Browse
  • HP 3PAR KM
  • HP 3PAR ETL
  • BMC Discovery (HP 3PAR pattern)
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IBM V7000 Unified 2076-112 WBEM 5989 Monitor
  • IBM SVC-Storwize KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • IBM SVC-Storwize ETL
  • BMC Discovery (IBM Storwize pattern)
IBM SVC 2145-CF8 WBEM 5989 Monitor
  • IBM SVC-Storwize KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • IBM SVC-Storwize ETL
  • BMC Discovery (IBM Storwize pattern)
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IBM XiV - Read Only
  • IBM XiV KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • IBM XiV ETL
  • BMC Discovery (IBM XiV pattern)
IBM HMC DS8882F WBEM 6989 Viewer
  • IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (IBM DS68 pattern)
NetApp E-Series netapp-e2824 REST 8443 Monitor
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (NetApp E-Series pattern)
Pure FlashArray/M10 R2 HTTPS 443 Read Only
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (Pure Storage pattern)
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RedHat Ceph - HTTP 7000 Read Only
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL