HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software User Manual
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Document Outline
- HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Overview
- Discovering Switches, Storage Systems, NAS Devices, and Tape Libraries
- About Discovery
- Discovery Steps
- Overview
- Testing your SMI-S Providers (Optional)
- Configuring the Selective Discovery Filter (Optional)
- Configuring the HP SIM Connector to Pass Devices with the DNS Name (Optional)
- Signing in to HP SIM
- Enabling Product Health Monitoring
- Discovering the HP Storage Essentials Management Server
- Discovering Elements
- Discovering Switches
- Discovering Brocade Switches
- Migrating Brocade API Switches to SMI-S After Upgrading
- Discovering CNT Switches
- Discovering Cisco Switches
- Discovering Sun StorEdge, QLogic and HP StorageWorks M-Series for p-Class BladeSystems
- Discovering McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches
- Discovering McDATA and Connectrix switches with SMI-S
- Discovering McDATA and Connectrix Switches through a Proxy with SWAPI
- Discovering McDATA and Connectrix Switches through a Proxy with SNMP
- Discovering McDATA and Connectrix Switches through a Direct Connection and SNMP
- Changing the Discovery Settings
- Excluding McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches from Discovery
- Managing McDATA and EMC Connectrix Switches
- Changing the SNMP Trap Listener Port and Community String for Switches Discovered with SNMP
- Discovering Storage Systems
- Discovering 3PAR Storage Systems
- Discovering EMC Solutions Enabler
- Discovering EMC CLARiiON Storage Systems
- Discovering LSI Storage Systems
- Discovering HDS Storage Systems
- Discovering HP Storage Systems
- Discovering IBM Storage Systems and IBM SAN Volume Controllers
- Discovering Sun StorEdge Storage Systems
- Discovering Xiotech Storage Systems
- Discovering NAS Devices and Tape Libraries
- Discovery Data Collection
- Other Discovery Features
- Selective Discovery Filter
- Discovering a Single Element using the Manual Tab
- Changing Credentials for Discovery
- Saving Discovery Settings to a Hosts File
- Importing a Hosts File
- Viewing Log Messages
- Viewing the Status of System Tasks
- Using Discovery Groups
- Deleting Discovered Elements
- Working with Quarantined Elements
- Updating the Database with Element Changes
- Discovering Applications, Backup Hosts and Hosts
- Step 1 - Discovering Your Hosts and Backup Manager Hosts
- Step 2 - Setting Up Discovery for Applications
- Creating Custom Passwords on Managed Database Instances
- Monitoring Oracle
- Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server
- Switching to Mixed Mode Authentication
- Step A - Create the appiq_user Account for the Microsoft SQL Server
- Step B - Provide the Microsoft SQL Server Name and Port Number
- Removing the appiq_user Account for Microsoft SQL Server
- Deleting Microsoft SQL Server Information
- Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server Clusters
- Monitoring Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
- Monitoring Microsoft Exchange
- Monitoring Caché
- Step 3 - Discovering Applications
- Changing the Oracle TNS Listener Port
- Changing the Password for the Managed Database Account
- Host and Application Clustering
- Managing Security
- About Security for the Management Server
- Managing User Accounts
- Managing Roles
- Managing Organizations
- Changing the Password of System Accounts
- Using Active Directory/LDAP for Authentication
- Managing Licenses
- Configuring the Management Server
- Trap Generation
- Setting Up E-mail Notification
- Configuring Print Settings
- Setting the Date and Time for Scheduled Tasks
- Managing Getting Discovery Details
- Modifying Collector Settings for Newly Discovered Elements
- Managing Product Health
- Managing Logging
- Accessing the Log Files
- About Log Files
- Downloading Logs to a File Using the Download Logs Feature
- Downloading Logs to a File Using the Log Download Utility
- Downloading the User Audit Log
- Downloading the Discovery Summary Log
- Displaying a Log File in a Command Prompt Window
- Changing the Provider Log Level
- Enabling the Scanning of Critical Events of the Management Server Database
- Viewing the Results of Logging
- Managing the Display of Events
- Managing File System Viewer
- Managing Backup Collection
- Managing Reports
- Architectural Overview of Report Views and Report Cache Refresh
- Managing Collectors for Reports
- Viewing Scheduled E-mail Deliveries for Reports
- Editing E-mail Schedules for Reports
- Viewing Data Aging Statistics for Reports
- Scheduling Report Cleanup
- Refreshing the Report Cache
- Setting Up Global Reporter
- Editing Remote Site Information
- Remote Sites Are Not Removed from the tnsnames.ora File
- Managing Custom Reports (Importing and Deleting)
- Managing Performance Collection
- Editing the Locale and Currency Settings
- Process Names
- Editing a Collector Schedule
- Database Maintenance and Management
- Database Maintenance Window
- Overview of Backups
- Database Mode
- Architectural Overview of RMAN Backups
- Performing an RMAN Hot Backup
- Scheduling RMAN Hot Backups
- Viewing Results from RMAN Backup
- About the Database Admin Utility
- Accessing the Database Admin Utility
- Refreshing the Database Admin Utility
- Checking the Database and Listener Status
- Use Only the Database Admin Utility to Change the Password of System Accounts
- Exporting the Database
- Importing the Database
- Re-initializing the Database
- Resetting the Temp and Undo Tablespace
- Restarting the Database
- Clearing Archives
- Restoring a Cold Backup
- Changing the Archive Mode
- Restore RMAN Backup
- Running a Cold Backup
- Changing the Archive Destination
- Downloading Log Files
- Viewing the Database Admin Utility Log File
- Resetting/Clearing the Database Admin Log File
- Changing the Oracle Listener Password
- Warning Messages During Reinitializing the Database
- About Database Passwords
- Generating a Support Database
- About Importing a Customer Support Database
- Troubleshooting Listener and Database Connection Problems
- Viewing Element Topology and Properties
- About System Manager
- Accessing System Manager
- About Cisco Switches and VSANs in System Manager
- About the User Interface for System Manager
- Viewing Storage Elements
- Adding a Virtual Application
- Adding Information for Discovered Hosts
- Arranging Elements in the Topology
- Closing Topology Windows
- Using the Global View
- Printing the Topology
- Exporting the Topology to Microsoft Visio
- Updating Element Data
- Viewing Ports
- Showing the Impact of an Element
- Assigning a Business Cost to an Application
- Expanding the Topology Pane
- Filtering Fabrics
- Viewing Event Status in the Topology
- Custom Name for a Switch Truncated in the Topology
- Managing Groups
- Managing Fabrics
- Hiding and Showing Generic Hosts
- Setting Up Custom Commands
- Using External Tools
- About the Navigation Tab
- Viewing Element Properties
- Viewing Element Topology
- Creating a Virtual Application
- The Provisioning Tab
- About the Events Tab
- Asset Attributes of an Element
- About the Collectors Tab
- About the Monitoring Tab
- About the Policies Tab
- Determining If a Host Belongs to a File System
- About the Data from CXFS File Systems
- Event Management
- Finding an Element’s Storage Capacity
- About Capacity Manager
- Accessing Capacity Manager
- The Toolbars in Capacity Manager
- Finding the Capacity of an Element
- Obtaining Utilization Reports
- Printing Elements in Capacity Manager
- Viewing Capacity Charts
- Viewing Trending Information for Storage Capacity
- Different Results for the df -k Command and Capacity Manager
- Managing Policies
- Viewing Performance Data
- About Performance Manager and Array Performance Pack
- General Considerations for Performance Manager
- Accessing Performance Manager
- Creating Performance Charts
- The Toolbars in Performance Manager
- Comparing the Performance of Different Elements
- Viewing Summary Charts
- Viewing Trending Information for Performance
- Removing Performance Data from a Graph
- Setting a Custom Period
- Monitoring Options
- Managing Late Data or Errors
- Monitoring with Direct Attached Storage
- Supported Host Configurations for Monitoring
- Sudden Dips Displayed in Certain Charts in Performance Manager
- Values Continue to Increase in Charts for Aggregated Drives and Aggregate Volumes
- Running Reports
- About Reporter
- Accessing Reporter
- Viewing Reports
- Viewing Report Collectors for an Element
- Refreshing a Report
- Changing the Formatting of a Report
- Opening a Report in a New Window
- Maximizing the Screen Space for a Report
- Filtering Data in Global Reports
- Sending a Report by E-mail
- Managing E-mail Schedules for Reports
- Creating Custom Reports
- Provisioning Manager
- About Provisioning Manager
- Managing Zones
- SAN Zoning Overview
- Accessing Information About Zone Aliases
- Creating a Zone Alias
- Modifying a Zone Alias
- Deleting a Zone Alias
- Accessing Information About Zoning
- Creating a Zone in a Fabric
- Adding and Removing Zone Members
- Deleting a Zone
- Accessing Information About Zone Sets
- Creating a Zone Set
- Modifying a Zone Set
- Deleting a Zone Set
- Copying a Zone Set
- Activating a Zone Set
- Zones and Zone Sets Listed Twice
- Changing the Amount of Information Collected from the Inactive Zone Database (Cisco Switches)
- About the Messages Displayed in the Brocade Console
- Managing Storage
- Setting Up Storage Partitioning
- Modifying the Cache Settings (LSI and Sun 6130)
- Changing the Owner of a Volume (LSI, CLARiiON and Sun 6130)
- Managing Storage Pools
- Managing Volumes
- Rules for Creating Host Security Groups
- Managing Host Security Groups
- General Provisioning Issues
- Provisioning Issues by Vendor
- Managing Backups
- About Backup Manager
- Viewing Sessions that are Running
- Determining if the Last Scheduled Backup was Successful
- About the User Interface
- About the Summary Backup Charts
- About the Tabs in the Topology Lower Pane
- Sorting Information in the Lower Pane
- Modifying Summary Backup Charts
- Viewing Charts for a Backup Manager Host
- Printing Summary Charts
- Path Provisioning
- About Path Provisioning
- How Path Provisioning Works
- How to Use Path Provisioning
- About the User Interface
- Default System Action Templates
- Creating a System Action Template
- Modifying a System Action Template
- Adding a Host
- Creating a Host Security Group
- Scheduling Provisioning Jobs
- Executing Provisioning Jobs
- Monitoring Provisioning Jobs
- Deleting Multiple Jobs
- Naming Conventions
- Using Multipathing with Path Provisioning
- Customizing Path Provisioning
- Assigning a Template to a Role
- Chargeback Manager
- About Chargeback Manager
- Setting Up Chargeback Manager
- Accessing Chargeback Manager
- Creating an Asset Record
- Changing the Status of an Element
- Saving Chargeback Manager Information
- Viewing Assets
- Defining Storage Tiers
- Adding Asset Information
- Managing Departments
- Setting the Infrastructure Cost
- Setting Up Asset and Storage Based Chargeback Manager
- Viewing Chargeback
- Chargeback Reports
- Filtering Assets
- Business Tools
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Installation/Upgrade
- If Your Installation or Upgrade Failed, Capture the Logs
- Checking Installation Log Files
- “The environment variable ‘perl5lib’ is set.” Message
- “SEVERE: OUI-10029...” Message
- Brocade API Switches Displaying Stale Data
- SIM Connector Fails to Install for Single-Server Configurations
- “Reverse Lookup Failed” Message (Windows only)
- Re-installing the HP SIM Connector (If Your HP SIM User Name or Password is Incorrect or was Changed)
- Increasing the time-out for the HP SIM Connector
- Storage Essentials Menus Are Not Shown in HP SIM
- NoSuchElement Error
- Difficulty Displaying Storage Essentials Pages After Generating a Custom Certificate
- Troubleshooting the Oracle Database (Windows)
- Configuring the Java Console
- java.lang.SecurityException: Failed to validate one time key
- “Data is late or an error occurred” Message
- appstorm.<timestamp>.log Filled with Connection Exceptions
- Receiving HTTP ERROR: 503 When Accessing the Management Server
- Permanently Changing the Port a CIM Extension Uses (UNIX Only)
- Configuring UNIX CIM Extensions to Run Behind Firewalls
- Volume Names from Ambiguous Automounts Are Not Displayed
- Installing the Software Security Certificate
- Troubleshooting Discovery and Discovery Data Collection
- Troubleshooting Mode
- Unable to discover Emulex host bus adapters
- CIMOM Service Not Starting After Trying to Discover Sybase or SQL Server Applications
- Configuring E-mail Notification for Discovery Data Collection
- Increasing the Time-out Period and Number of Retries for Switches in Progress
- “Connection to the Database Server Failed” Error
- An Element is Not Listed on the Discovery Data Collection Page
- DCOM Unable to Communicate with Computer
- Duplicate Listings/Logs for Brocade Switches in Same Fabric
- Duplicate entries for the same element on the Discovery Data Collection page
- Element Logs Authentication Errors During Discovery
- EMC Device Masking Database Does Not Appear in Topology (AIX Only)
- Management Server Does Not Discover Another Management Server's Database
- Microsoft Exchange Drive Shown as a Local Drive
- Unable to Discover Microsoft Exchange Servers
- Nonexistent Oracle Instance Is Displayed
- Requirements for Discovering Oracle
- Do Not Run Overlapping Discovery Schedules
- "This storage system uses unsupported firmware. ManagementClassName: class_name" Message
- Troubleshooting Topology Issues
- About the Topology
- Undiscovered Hosts Display as Storage Systems
- Solaris Machines Appear to Have Extra QLogic HBAs
- No Stitching for Brocade Switches with Firmware 3.2.0
- Link Between a Brocade Switch and a Host Disappears from the Topology
- Incorrect Topology Sometimes Displayed for CNT Switches
- Unable to See Path Information
- Device Locking Mechanism for Brocade Element Manager Query/Reconfiguration
- A Discovered Sun StorEdge A5000 JBOD Does Not Display Its WWN Properly
- Sun 6920 Storage Systems: “ReplicatorSQLException: Database create error” During Discovery Data Collection
- Mirrored Volumes Cannot Be Provisioned on Sun 6920 Storage Systems
- Unable to Monitor McDATA Switches
- Unable to Detect a Host Bus Adapter
- Navigation Tab Displays Removed Drives as Disk Drives
- Unable to Obtain Information from a CLARiiON Storage System
- Discovery Fails Too Slowly for a Nonexistent IP Address
- “CIM_ERR_FAILED” Message
- CIM_ERR_FAILED When Trying to Activate a Zone Set Using McDATA SWAPI
- Communicating with HiCommand Device Manager Over SSL
- Unable to Discover a UNIX Host Because of DNS or Routing Issues
- ERROR replicating APPIQ_EVAStorageVolume during Discovery Data Collection for an EVA array
- Recalculating the Topology
- Troubleshooting the Java Plug-in
- Troubleshooting Provisioning
- Troubleshooting CLI Errors
- Troubleshooting Hardware
- Troubleshooting Installation/Upgrade
- Glossary
- A
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- M
- P
- S
- V
- W
- Z
- Index