1.0

Installing the EMC Smarts Adapter 2
The EMC Smarts adapter is an embedded adapter for vCenter Operations Manager. The adapter collects
metrics, change events, and resource topology information from EMC Smarts.
The procedure you follow to install the EMC Smarts adapter depends on whether you have a
vCenter Operations Manager Standalone or vApp installation.
This chapter includes the following topics:
n
“Install the Adapter in a Standalone Installation,” on page 11
n
“Install the Adapter in a vApp Installation,” on page 12
Install the Adapter in a Standalone Installation
If you have a standalone installation, you install the EMC Smarts adapter by extracting the adapter installation
files from a TGZ file and running an installation utility.
Prerequisites
n
Download the adapter installation TGZ file anonymously from ftp://ftp.integrien.com/.
n
Make a note of the build number in the TGZ file name. The build number appears after the adapter name,
for example, adaptername - buildnumber .tgz.
n
Read the release notes that are included with the TGZ file.
Procedure
1 Open the TGZ file and extract the TAR file to a temporary folder on your vCenter Operations Manager
server.
2 In the temporary folder, open the TAR file and extract and run the installer for your operating system
platform.
3 Log in to the Custom user interface as an administrator.
4 Select Admin > Support.
5 On the Info tab, find the Adapters Info pane and click the Describe icon (
).
The Describe icon is located at the top right of the Adapters Info pane.
VMware, Inc.
11