Technical White Paper

4 Monitoring Dell EqualLogic 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 EqualLogic storage arrays .................................................................................................................................... 9 
2.1  SNMP configuration ........................................................................................................................................................... 9 
3  Configuring the EqualLogic storage array to send alerts to OpenManage Essentials .................................................. 11 
4  Alerts in OpenManage Essentials .............................................................................................................................................. 12 
4.1  Alert threshold .................................................................................................................................................................... 12 
5  Automatic case creation and execution of the collection tool ........................................................................................14 
6  Configuring periodic collection ................................................................................................................................................ 15 
7  Sending system logs manually (collection on demand) ......................................................................................................16 
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................................................16 