Dell PowerVault MD3060e Installation Manual

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SMI-S Provider Installation Guide

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  • Page 1 Dell PowerVault MD Series Storage Arrays SMI-S Provider Installation Guide...
  • Page 2: Notes, Cautions, And Warnings

    CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2012 Dell Inc. Trademarks used in this text: Dell , the Dell logo, Dell Precision , OptiPlex , Latitude...
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Notes, Cautions, and Warnings....................2 1 SMI-S Provider Installation Guide....................5 ................................5 Introduction ............................5 Version Information .........................5 Supported Profiles And Sub-Profiles .......................6 Installing And Uninstalling The SMI-S Provider ......................6 System Requirements For SMI-S Provider ...........................7 Installing SMI-S Provider ............................7 Configuring CIM Server ..........................9 Uninstalling SMI-S Provider ..........................9...
  • Page 5: Smi-S Provider Installation Guide

    A native feature of the storage device API. This implementation is sometimes referred to as an Dell MD Series SMI-S Provider is implemented as a proxy interface. The Dell SMI-S Provider, referred to as SMI-S Provider, runs on a server on the storage network. OpenPegasus CIMOM is installed during the installation of this SMI-S Provider.
  • Page 6: Installing And Uninstalling The Smi-S Provider

    • Block services • Disk drive lite • Copy services • Job control • Extent composition • Disk sparing • Initiator port (SAS and SATA) • Target port (SAS) • iSCSI target port • Access points • Indications • Masking and mapping •...
  • Page 7: Installing Smi-S Provider

    Installing SMI-S Provider The SMI-S Provider is packaged as an archive file for UNIX-based operating system servers and as an executable installation file for Microsoft Windows-based operating system servers. Installing SMI-S Provider For Windows-Based Operating Systems To install the SMI-S Provider: Move the SMI-S Provider installation executable file on the server where you want to install the SMI-S Provider.
  • Page 8 Function Command To enable or disable # cimconfig -s slp={true | false} -p service location If SLP is enabled, see the table below for additional settings information. protocol (SLP) Commands are of the following format: cimconfig -s <propertyName>={true| false} -p where <propertyName>...
  • Page 9: Uninstalling Smi-S Provider

    Click Start → Control Panel → Add or Remove Programs (or Programs and Features for Microsoft Windows Server 2008). Double-click Dell SMI-S Provider to uninstall it. The uninstallation procedure may leave files (such as trace files, repository files, and other administrative files) that were created by SMI-S Provider after the installation was complete.
  • Page 10: Troubleshooting The Smi-S Provider

    Go to the directory where SMI-S Provider is installed. The default install directories are: – <%Program Files%>/Dell/pegasus/provider/array for Windows. – /opt/dell/pegasus/array for Linux. Edit providerTraceLog.properties file in a text file editor, by following the steps below: a) Remove the pound sign (#) from the lines containing File, Level, and Events.
  • Page 11 Issue Recommended Action Return Code -4 message is displayed for any method that runs. A specific error message is not displayed other than the return value, but the SMI-S Provider trace log shows that the method failed because of an authentication failure.

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