Product guide

EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter

Reporting on Your Datacenter

Identifying IT assets for accounting

This example demonstrates how a CTO can use EMC

Ionix™ StorageScope™ to

create reports of the company’s IT assets, including arrays, hosts, and switches, for

the corporate accountants. The CTO logs in to StorageScope, builds custom queries

displaying all assets managed by Ionix ControlCenter, and prints them to a PDF. Once

generated, the queries can be re-used to provide the information on demand.

The sections below demonstrate how to use StorageScope to retrieve basic

information for arrays, hosts, and switches, along with some custom fields that are

specific to the accounting department’s needs.

Note: If you create a single query listing all arrays, hosts and switches in the

environment, the StorageScope Query Builder will list the objects by logical

relationship, entering one row for every logical path from host to array through a

switch. In cases where an object is not connected to any other managed resource, it

would not appear in the query at all. For this example, a simple, complete listing of

objects is required. Consequently, the listing of managed resources is handled

through three queries rather than a single query.

Listing of arrays

To complete this task, the CTO:

1. Opens a web browser window and enters the following URL:

https://<StorageScope_host_name>:30002/srm

where <StorageScope_host_name> is the name of the host on which

StorageScope is installed.

2. Enters the Ionix ControlCenter login. The dashboard appears.

3. On the StorageScope menu, selects Analysis > Queries > Query Builder.

4. Selects Create to launch the Query Builder Wizard.

Note: For detailed instructions on using the Query Builder Wizard, refer to the

StorageScope online help.

a. On the Define Initial Settings step of the wizard, sets Name, Description,

and Time Period settings for the query, see Figure 1 on page 9.