Users Guide

Using Dell EqualLogic Storage Management

Pack Suite

This chapter describes the various operations that you can perform on OpsMgr using the Dell EqualLogic Storage Management Pack Suite

version 5.0.

The Management Pack enables you to:

• Discover and provide detailed inventory information on the EqualLogic groups. For more information, see Discovery.

• Monitor the health of the EqualLogic groups and its constituent components. For more information, see Monitoring.

• Launch the EqualLogic Group Manager GUI as a task from the OpsMgr console. For more information, see Launching EqualLogic

Group Manager GUI.

• Customize parameters for discovery, monitoring, and event processing of the discovered Dell EqualLogic devices. For more

information, see Customizing the EqualLogic Storage Management Pack.

Topics:

• Discovery

• Monitoring

• Tasks

• Customizing The Dell EqualLogic Storage Management Pack

Discovery

The management pack discovers Dell EqualLogic devices present in the Network Devices list of OpsMgr.

Discovering Dell EqualLogic Devices

To discover a Dell EqualLogic device:

1. Log on to the system with an account that has the OpsMgr Administrator role for the Management Group.

2. Launch the OpsMgr console and click Administration.

3. Expand Administration > Network Management.

4. Right-click on Network Devices and select Discovery Wizard from the pop-up menu.

5. On the Computer and Device Management Wizard menu , select Network Devices , and click Next.

Follow the instructions on the screen to discover your Dell EqualLogic devices. For more information, see the Microsoft documentation

for OpsMgr at technet.microsoft.com.

NOTE:

You must use only the EqualLogic group IP address to perform discovery of the devices when the group does

not have a management network configured. When the device is configured for management mode, use the

EqualLogic management IP for discovering.

Monitoring

The Dell EqualLogic Storage Management Pack Suite version 5.0 enables you to monitor the discovered Dell EqualLogic devices. The

Health Status Indicators help you to monitor the health of your Dell EqualLogic devices on the network.

Monitoring Dell EqualLogic devices include:

• The health of Dell EqualLogic Group and its components.

• If you import the Dell EqualLogic Scalable feature, you can monitor the health of Storage Pools Group and Volumes Group.

• If you import the Dell EqualLogic Detailed feature , you can monitor the health of EqualLogic members and their component

groups.

• Process the SNMP alerts for the events received from the Dell EqualLogic devices.

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