User's Manual

Using Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack

Suite

This chapter describes the various operations that you can perform on the OpsMgr using the Dell MD Storage Array

Management Pack Suite version 5.0.

The Management Pack Suite enables you to:

• Discover and provide detailed inventory information of the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays. For more

information, see Discovery.

• Monitor the health of the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays and its constituent components. For more

information, see Monitoring.

• Launch Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array discovery utility through a console task. For more information, see

Launching The Dell Discovery Utility From The OpsMgr Console.

• Customize parameters of the MD Storage Array Management Packs by using overrides. For more information,

see

Customizing The Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array Management Packs.

Web Console

The OpsMgr web console server enables you to monitor and manage your Dell devices with the Dell PowerVault MD

Storage Array Management Pack using a browser instead of the OpsMgr console. You can use the OpsMgr web

console server without installing the OpsMgr console.

Discovery

To discover Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays in the network, an important prerequisite is the IP listing file

(dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg) that contains the IP addresses of the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays.

NOTE: For information on Dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg file, see Discovering Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays.

The default IP listing file, Dell_MDStorageArray_ip_sample.cfg is available on the management server where you have

installed the Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite. This file provides the reference format in which the IP

addresses have to be provided in the IP listing file (dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg).

Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays discovered in MDSM can be monitored in OpsMgr by using the Dell PowerVault

MDSM IP list extraction utility. This utility extracts the IP addresses of the Dell PowerVault MD Storage arrays into a file

(Dell_MDStorageArray_IPList.cfg). This file has contents in the format that is recognized by Dell MD Storage Array

Management Pack Suite version 5.0. The contents of the file output from the utility should be appended to the contents

of the

Dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg file. For more information on running the Dell PowerVault MDSM IP list extraction

utility, see Extracting MD Storage Array IP Addresses From Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager.

Discovering Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays

To discover Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays:

1. Run the Dell Discovery Utility and populate the IP listing file Dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg with the IP addresses of

the Dell PowerVault MD storage arrays in the network.