Users Guide

Contents
1 Overview.................................................................................................................4
What is new in this release....................................................................................................................4
Key features of Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite........................................................ 5
Details of components modelled by Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite......................5
Dell recommendations for scalability...................................................................................................6
2 Using Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite..................................7
Discovery................................................................................................................................................7
Discovering Dell Powervault MD Storage Arrays........................................................................... 8
Monitoring............................................................................................................................................. 9
Health status indicators...................................................................................................................9
Alerts Views......................................................................................................................................9
Diagram Views...............................................................................................................................10
Tasks.....................................................................................................................................................13
Launching the Dell Discovery Utility from the Opsmgr console.................................................13
Customizing the Dell Md Storage Array Management Pack..............................................................13
Object discoveries......................................................................................................................... 14
Unit monitors.................................................................................................................................14
Customizing unit monitors........................................................................................................... 16
Specifying override parameters for unit monitors........................................................................17
Extracting Dell MD Storage Array IP addresses from Dell Powervault Modular Disk Storage
Manager............................................................................................................................................... 17
3 Related documentation and resources.......................................................... 18
Microsoft guidelines for performance and scalability for operations manager............................... 18
Other documents you may need........................................................................................................18
Obtaining technical assistance........................................................................................................... 18
Accessing documents from Dell support site.................................................................................... 18
Contacting Dell....................................................................................................................................19
4 Troubleshooting.................................................................................................20
Issues and resolutions.........................................................................................................................20
5 Appendix a — enabling external program tasks........................................... 22
Creating a console launch task for Dell Discovery Utility in OpsMgr 2012 R2.................................22