HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.1 Administrator Guide (web) (TB581-96050, May 2011)

• Performance information acquisition feature
These features are described below:
Object operation feature
The SMI-S specifications, which Device Manager conforms to, define the interfaces for devices
that make up a storage network, such as storage systems, virtual storage systems, switches, and
hosts. The features that need to be provided by the management service to manage the devices
are grouped in a profile for each device.
The profiles used by the CIM/WBEM features of Device Manager are the Array profile and its
subprofiles. The Array profile defines the interfaces for storage systems.
Indication feature
The indication feature is the event notification feature defined by CIM. When an event occurs in
a CIM server, the CIM server reports the indication instance, which shows the information about
the event (such as generation or deletion of a CIM instance), to CIM clients. For a CIM client to
receive indications, its location and transmission conditions for indications must be registered in
the CIM server beforehand. For details on how to register them, see the SNIA website.
Device Manager reports the occurrence of the following events:
• Generation of a volume
• Deletion of a volume
• Allocation of a path
• Cancellation of a path
Service discovery feature
Device Manager provides the service discovery feature based on the Service Location Protocol
(SLP).
The SLP is undergoing standardization by IETF and provides a way to discover desired services
available in a network. For details on the SLP, see RFC2608.
Just by specifying the type of service, SLP clients can obtain information (such as URLs) about how
to access the available services, and information about service attributes.
In Device Manager, the Device Manager server uses the SLP to report information about the
WBEM Service.
Performance information acquisition feature
Using the CIM interface, Device Manager acquires information about I/Os to ports and LDEVs
as performance information of the storage system.
Basic settings required to use the CIM/WBEM features
When P9000 Command View AE Suite has been installed as a new installation, the CIM/WBEM
features are enabled. If you want to enable the CIM/WBEM features again after having disabled
them, you need to specify environment settings as described below.
To enable the CIM/WBEM features:
1. Change the setting in the Device Manager server property file.
In the server.properties property file, change the server.cim.support property from
false to true. The server.properties file is stored in the following location:
In Windows:
installation-folder-for-the-Device-Manager-server\Server\config\
In Linux:
installation-directory-for-the-Device-Manager-server/Server/config
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