Installation and Setup Guide

Installing the Primary Data Collector

Data Source Type: Select the data source type from the list of available options.

7 Click Next.

8 Enter SMI-S Server Properties

For information on setting up and using SMI-S, see Using the Dell Compellent SMI-S

Provider on page 91.

Enable SMI-S Server: Select this option to enable SMI-S. When enabled, the Data

Collector installs and starts the Pegasus service. Note that the Pegasus service runs as

a separate task from the Data Collector; therefore when the Data Collector is stopped,

the Pegasus service is not automatically stopped.

Use SMI-S Server SLP Service: Select this option to force the Pegasus server to use

the Service Location Protocol (SLP) to broadcast the availability of the server. The

default is not to use SLP.

Flatfile

1 Click Next.

2 Browse to and select a location for the flatfile.

MySQL (all versions)

1 Exit the Data Collector setup.

2 Go to To configure MySQL 4.1 on page 19 or To configure

MySQL 5.0 or MySQL 5.1 on page 20 and follow the

configuration steps for the database you have selected.

Microsoft SQL Server

2005/2008 (and Express

Editions)

1 Exit the Data Collector setup.

2 Go to To configure Microsoft SQL Servers 2005/2008 on

page 21 and follow the configuration steps for the

database you have selected.