Users Guide

Contents
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
2 Using Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite.................................................... 7
Discovery............................................................................................................................................................................7
Discovering Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays...........................................................................................................7
Monitoring..........................................................................................................................................................................8
Health status indicators................................................................................................................................................ 8
Alerts Views..................................................................................................................................................................9
Diagram Views............................................................................................................................................................ 10
Tasks.................................................................................................................................................................................12
Launching the Dell Discovery Utility from the OpsMgr console................................................................................... 12
Customizing the Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack..............................................................................................12
Object discoveries.......................................................................................................................................................12
Unit monitors.............................................................................................................................................................. 13
Customizing unit monitors...........................................................................................................................................15
Specifying override parameters for unit monitors........................................................................................................15
Extracting Dell MD Storage Array IP addresses from Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager............................. 15
3 Related documentation and resources........................................................................... 16
Microsoft guidelines for performance and scalability for Operations Manager...................................................................16
Other documents you may need....................................................................................................................................... 16
Obtaining technical assistance.......................................................................................................................................... 16
Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site......................................................................................................16
Contacting Dell..................................................................................................................................................................17
4 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................. 18
Issues and resolutions....................................................................................................................................................... 18
5 Appendix a — enabling external program tasks............................................................. 19
Creating a console launch task for Dell Discovery Utility in OpsMgr 2012 R2.................................................................... 19
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