Users Guide

Chapter 1: Overview...................................................................................................................... 4
What is new in this release................................................................................................................................................4
Key features of Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite........................................................................... 4
Details of components modelled by Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite.......................................5
Dell recommendations for scalability.............................................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 2: Using Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite..................................................6
Discovery............................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Discovering Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays.................................................................................................. 6
Monitoring............................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Health status indicators................................................................................................................................................7
Alerts Views.................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Diagram Views................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Tasks......................................................................................................................................................................................11
Launching the Dell Discovery Utility from the OpsMgr console........................................................................11
Customizing the Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack................................................................................... 11
Object discoveries........................................................................................................................................................ 11
Unit monitors.................................................................................................................................................................12
Customizing unit monitors......................................................................................................................................... 13
Specifying override parameters for unit monitors................................................................................................14
Extracting Dell MD Storage Array IP addresses from Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager..... 14
Chapter 3: Related documentation and resources........................................................................ 15
Microsoft guidelines for performance and scalability for Operations Manager..................................................15
Other documents you may need.................................................................................................................................... 15
Obtaining technical assistance....................................................................................................................................... 15
Accessing support content from the Dell EMC support site.................................................................................. 15
Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Chapter 4: Troubleshooting..........................................................................................................17
Issues and resolutions....................................................................................................................................................... 17
Appendix A: Enabling external program tasks...............................................................................18
Creating a console launch task for Dell Discovery Utility in OpsMgr 2012 R2.................................................... 18
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