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Introduction to EMC Smarts
Integration 1
Integrating vCenter Operations Manager and EMC Smarts improves the performance of both products and
makes it easier to predict, diagnose, and prevent problems in your IT infrastructure.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Data that vCenter Operations Manager Receives from EMC Smarts,” on page 9
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“Data that vCenter Operations Manager Sends to EMC Smarts,” on page 9
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“Installation and Configuration Requirements,” on page 10
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“Overview of Data Flow,” on page 10
Data that vCenter Operations Manager Receives from EMC Smarts
vCenter Operations Manager receives definitions of resources and metric values for attributes that EMC servers
monitor in domains that you select. It also receives topology information for container resources that EMC
Smarts defines.
vCenter Operations Manager uses the topology information that it receives from EMC Smarts to define
container resources, including applications and tiers, in vCenter Operations Manager. Once each day, at a time
that you configure, vCenter Operations Manager polls each EMC Smarts adapter instance and adds any new
resources that it finds. This feature ensures that the vCenter Operations Manager resource topology always
matches the EMC Smarts topology.
EMC Smarts generates change events when resources are unavailable and anomalies when resources are
unresponsive. The change events appear in vCenter Operations Manager in the Mashup Charts widget and
on the Mashup tab on the Alert Detail page for alerts on the associated resource. The
vCenter Operations Manager analytics engine considers the anomalies as possible root cause symptoms for
related alerts.
See “Viewing EMC Smarts Information in vCenter Operations Manager,” on page 34 for examples of how
EMC Smarts information appears in the Custom user interface.
Data that vCenter Operations Manager Sends to EMC Smarts
vCenter Operations Manager uses its advanced analytics to analyze metric data that it receives from EMC
Smarts and sends alert messages back to EMC Smarts when it detects problems or potential problems.
Alerts that vCenter Operations Manager sends to EMC Smarts appear in the Global Console Notification Log.
An operator can double-click an alert message to see more information about the alert in the
vCenter Operations Manager custom view panel. From the custom view panel, an operator can click an arrow
to open the Alert Detail page in vCenter Operations Manager.
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