Adding BMC Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays to an Element Profile

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1.Log in to the Portal with normal user credentials.

2.Click Configure tab > Element Profiles. The Available Profiles page appears. Select the Profile to which you wish to add the Storage class > Edit.

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Selecting a Profile

3.The selected Element Profile’s Properties page appears. Go to Application Classes > Add.

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Adding Application Classes

4.The Element Profile Properties – Add Application Classes page appears. Choose Storage from the Select Category drop-down list.

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Selecting the Storage  Applicable Class

5.Select the application class applicable to your system and click Next.

6.On the Properties and Credentials page, enter the information required for monitoring the disk array:

Input Properties

Description

Collection interval

Select the polling interval from the drop-down list. Unit: Minutes.

warningThe collection interval should be equal to or higher to the SMI-S provider refresh rate to prevent "No Data" values to be displayed in Portal.

Credentials

Enter the login and password used to connect to the remote element through WMI.

Hostname

Enter the Hostname or IP address of the remote machine

Port

Indicates the port number to be used by the EMC SMI-S Agent (default: 5989).

Transport Protocol

Select the transport protocol to be used by the EMC SMI-S Agent (for HTTP, the default port is 5988; for HTTPS the default port is 5989).

Oversubscription Situation Threshold (%)

Enter a threshold value (%) for the consumed capacity percentage that will set the situation parameter to 1 (TRUE) and trigger a warning for thin and oversubscribed storage pools. This parameter applies only to thin Storage Pool (An Alarm is triggered when the subscribed capacity percent is greater than 100 % and the consumed capacity is higher than 75 %).

Disable Volumes Monitoring

Select an option [Yes|No] to enable/disable the monitoring of all volumes. When the volumes monitoring is disabled, discovery and collect requests and operations are no longer performed. By default, this option is not checked.

Debug Mode

"Yes" enables the debug mode. The debug output produced is stored on the RSM server in a file located at "%RSM_HOME%/RSM(xx)/server/rsm/log/sen*_debug.log".

 

Please do not leave the debug mode enabled for too long as the debug file may grow indefinitely.

 

7.Click Next. You arrive at the final step for adding the BMC Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays application class: Thresholds, Properties and Credentials.

8.Thresholds are automatically set by BMC Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays. It is recommended to keep the default thresholds (or see the Thresholds section). Click Finish.

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Element Profile Properties

9.Click Done to save the changes made. The BMC Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays application class is now added to all the elements in the selected Element Profile.