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EMC Smarts Adapter
The EMC Smarts adapter is an embedded adapter that collects metrics, change events, and resource topology
information from software and hardware resources that EMC Smarts monitors.
vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise can also send alerts to EMC Smarts.
The EMC Smarts adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Connects to an EMC broker.
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Receives resources that EMC servers monitor in domains that you select.
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Receives the topology of container resources that EMC defines and metric values for attributes that EMC
Smarts monitors.
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Generates change events when EMC detects that a resource is down and anomalies when EMC detects
that a resource is unresponsive.
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Sends alerts to the EMC Smarts Global Console.
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Uses auto-discovery and manual discovery to create resources.
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Requires a valid EMC Smarts user name and password, the IP address and port number of the EMC broker,
and the name of an EMC Smarts domain to which to attach.
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Supports EMC Smarts 7.x and 8.1.
EMC Symmetrix Adapter
The EMC Symmetrix adapter is an embedded adapter that collects performance data for Symmetrix storage
arrays.
The EMC Symmetrix adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Collects performance data from TTP-formatted ASCII files. The EMC Solutions Enabler STP daemon
(storstpd) exports the TTP data files to a main input folder. You can configure the metrics that the
storstpd daemon exports.
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Requires access to the main input folder.
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Requires the user account that runs the Collector to have read and write permission to the main input
folder.
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Supports EMC Solutions Enabler 7.2 or later. The adapter is tested with EMC Solutions Enabler V7.3.0.1
(Edit Level: 1214).
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Requires the standalone version of EMC Solutions Enabler. The EMC Solutions Enabler virtual appliance
does not support TTP data file generation.
HP BAC Adapter
The HP BAC adapter is an embedded adapter that collects data from HP Business Availability Center (BAC).
HP BAC contains components for monitoring and managing business services and applications.
The HP BAC adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Reads data from HP Real User Monitor (RUM), HP Business Process Monitor (BPM), and HP SiteScope.
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Runs data collection tasks to retrieve and parse data and relationship tasks to define parent-child resource
relationships.
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Uses SOAP queries to the BAC Generic Data Engine API or SQL queries to the BAC database. The adapter
can also read data from a text file. You define connection information for tasks in XML configuration files.
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