Users Guide

Using Dell MD Storage Array Management
Pack Suite
This topic describes the various operations that you can perform on the OpsMgr using the Dell MD Storage Array Management
Pack Suite.
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 components. For more information, see Monitoring.
● Monitor the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array devices for SNMP traps in OpsMgr consoles. For more information, refer Dell
PowerVault MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite Version 6.1 Installation Guide.
● Launch Dell Discovery Utility through a console task to discover Dell PowerVault MD Storage Array devices. 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.
Topics:
• Discovery
• Monitoring
• Tasks
• Customizing the Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack
• Extracting Dell MD Storage Array IP addresses from Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager
Discovery
To discover Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays in the network, an important pre-requisite 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 the file;
Dell_MDStorageArray_IPList.cfg. This file has contents in a format that is recognized by Dell MD Storage Array
Management Pack Suite. The contents of the output file obtained 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 Dell 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.
NOTE:
If you use the default Dell_MDStorageArray_ip_sample.cfgfile, then, override the sample config file and
save it as Dell_MDStorageArray_ip.cfg. file in the discovery override.
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