Owner's Manual

20 Dell MD Storage Arrays Management Pack Suite Operations
Customizing the MD Storage Arrays
Management Pack
You can customize the following MD Storage Arrays Management Pack
discovery parameters, using overrides:
• Enabled : Allows you to enable or disable discoveries. You can choose the
Override Setting to be True or False.
• IntervalSeconds : The frequency (in seconds) with which the Dell
Management Pack discovers the component instance and attributes of
your Dell device. The default value for this attribute is 86400 seconds (24
hours).
•
IP Config File Path: Override this parameter if you are using a different
file or folder location. By default, the IP listing file is at
C:\Dell_MDStorageArray_ABB . For more information on configuring the
IP listing file, see the Installation guide. The Installation guide is packaged
in the self-extracting executable
Dell_MD_StorageArray_Management_Pack_Suite_v4.1_A00.exe
file.
You can download the executable from
support.dell.com .
You can specify the override parameters in the Authoring pane of the SCOM
console.
Object Discoveries
To specify override parameters for object discoveries:
1
Launch the SCOM console and click the Authoring tab.
2 Select Object Discoveries under Management Pack Objects in the
Authoring pane.
3 Select the MD Storage Array Seed Discovery group object and under that
select
Dell MD Storage Array Seed Discovery .
4 Right-click on selected Object Discovery and from the pop-up menu select
Overrides  Override the Object Discovery and you can choose to
override objects of a specific type or for all objects within a group.
5 Check on the appropriate discovery parameter that you want to override
and set its
Override Value .
6 Save the Override settings onto a new Management Pack.
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