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4 Monitoring Dell PowerVault MD Series Storage Arrays Using Dell SupportAssist | Version 1.0 | December 2013
Table of contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
1
Discovery and inventory .............................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.1
Prerequisites ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
1.2
Discovery range configuration ........................................................................................................................................ 6
2
Discovering PowerVault MD storage arrays ............................................................................................................................ 8
2.1.1
SNMP configuration ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.2
Storage configuration ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
3
Configuring the PowerVault MD storage array to send alerts to OpenManage Essentials ......................................... 11
4
Configuring SupportAssist ..........................................................................................................................................................14
5
Alerts in OpenManage Essentials .............................................................................................................................................. 15
5.1
Alert threshold .................................................................................................................................................................... 15
6
Automatic case creation and execution of the collection tool ........................................................................................ 17
7
Scheduling periodic collection................................................................................................................................................. 18
8
Sending system logs manually (collection on demand) ......................................................................................................19
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................................................19