HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

You must have a storage system’s WBEM SMI-S provider installed and configured on a managed node for
Systems Insight Manager to discover SAN storage. This includes storage devices such as Fibre Channel disk
arrays, switches, tape libraries, or hosts (with Fibre Channel host bus adapters.)
See the Systems Insight Manager SMI-S Provider webpage, http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim/providers, to
view the latest information regarding Systems Insight Manager support for a particular device. This webpage
offers information on obtaining, installing, and configuring SMI-S providers.
Installing SMI-S providers
Each storage vendor provides the SMI-S provider and installation instructions for its storage system. The
webpage referenced in the previous section provides information on obtaining SMI-S providers. Also, consult
the storage vendor’s website or representative for more information regarding their SMI-S providers. For
each storage system:
1. Verify that the applicable SMI-S provider is installed.
2. If the SMI-S provider is not installed, obtain and install it per the vendor’s installation instructions.
Verifying SSL
Systems Insight Manager requires that Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is enabled for the SMI-S provider in order
to discover and manage the storage system that the provider supports. Verify that SSL is enabled for each
SMI-S provider.
Configuring SMI-S providers
Occasionally, it might be necessary to modify an SMI-S provider’s port number or password. Use the
provider’s documentation to perform these modifications.
For example, if two CIMOMs exist on the same host, you must configure them to use different ports to
communicate with the CMS.
Configuring Systems Insight Manager to discover storage systems
After verifying that each storage system’s SMI-S provider is installed and configured, configure Systems
Insight Manager to discover the storage systems by performing the following steps:
1. Enter the user name and password for each provider’s SMI CIMOM in the Default WBEM settings
section on the Setting Global Protocols page.
2. Add each SMI CIMOM IP address to the Discovery task or to the Creating a New Discovery task.
See the HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/
management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.
Systems Insight Manager discovers the storage systems after the next automatic discovery task. If you want
to discover your storage systems immediately, run the discovery task as described in the “Running a Discovery
Task” section of the HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/
servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.
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