Dell PowerVault MD3060e Series User manual

Dell PowerVault MD Series Storage Arrays
SMI-S Provider Installation Guide

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Contents
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings...................................................................................................2
1 SMI-S Provider Installation Guide............................................................................................5
Introduction..............................................................................................................................................................5
Version Information............................................................................................................................................5
Supported Profiles And Sub-Profiles.................................................................................................................5
Installing And Uninstalling The SMI-S Provider.......................................................................................................6
System Requirements For SMI-S Provider........................................................................................................6
Installing SMI-S Provider...................................................................................................................................7
Configuring CIM Server......................................................................................................................................7
Uninstalling SMI-S Provider...............................................................................................................................9
Managing The SMI-S Provider.................................................................................................................................9
Starting And Stopping The OpenPegasus CIM Server......................................................................................9
Troubleshooting The SMI-S Provider.....................................................................................................................10

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SMI-S Provider Installation Guide
Introduction
The Dell PowerVault MD Series storage arrays provide an industry-standard application programming interface (API)
called the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). This interface enables third party SMI-S client
applications to manage MD Series storage arrays in a multi-vendor storage area network (SAN) environment.
SMI-enabled management applications are known as Common Information Model (CIM) clients. To allow clients to
manage a storage device, an SMI-S Provider (also called SMI-S Agent or CIM Agent) is required. SMI-S Providers can
be implemented as:
• A proxy interface that translates the existing API of a device to an SMI-S compliant interface. This
implementation is the quickest path to SMI-S compliance, but a proxy provider and a Common Information
Model Object Manager (CIMOM) must be installed on a server. A CIMOM is a CIM/WBEM infrastructure that
receives, validates, and authenticates CIM requests from the client application. The CIMOM directs the
requests to the appropriate device provider.
• A native feature of the storage device API. This implementation is sometimes referred to as an embedded agent .
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.
The SMI-S Provider provides the SMI-S interface to the Dell PowerVault MD Series storage arrays. The provider uses
the proxy CIM Agent model and is supported on Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms only. For more information
about the platform versions, see the Support Matrix for the MD Series storage arrays at support.dell.com/manuals.
Version Information
The following table lists the version details of the components.
Component Version
SMI-S 1.4
SMI-S Provider 10.26
OpenPegasus
CIMOM
2.9.1
Supported Profiles And Sub-Profiles
SMI-S Provider version 10.26 supports the following profiles and sub-profiles:
• Block storage views
• Thin provisioning
• Replication services
• Physical package
• Profile registration
• Device credentials
• Proxy server system management
• Multiple computer system
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• 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
• Location
• Software inventory
• Software update
• Erasure
• Battery
• Storage asymmetry
• Message log
• Block server performance
NOTE: Block server performance statistics are not available for controller firmware versions prior to 7.10.
Installing And Uninstalling The SMI-S Provider
System Requirements For SMI-S Provider
The following are the system requirements to install and run the SMI-S Provider.
System Component Requirement
Memory 1 GB minimum (2 GB recommended).
Connectivity Ethernet with 100BASE-T minimum (Gigabit Ethernet preferred) and TCP/IP.
Port TCP port 5988 or TCP port 5989, or any other available port if these ports are not available.
Storage array
password
The device credentials profile requires the storage array password (SharedSecret) to modify
operations. The SMI-S Provider persistently tracks an instance of the SharedSecret per
storage array.
Scalability There is no limit on the number of storage systems that can be supported by a single provider
instance. The recommended maximum is 10 for moderately to fully configured storage systems
per provider, or a total of around 5000 volumes. In large configurations, deploy additional
providers on different servers in your storage network to manage additional storage systems.
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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:
1. Move the SMI-S Provider installation executable file on the server where you want to install the SMI-S Provider.
2. Double-click the installation executable icon and follow the instructions on the screen.
NOTE: The installation prompts you to enter an IP address for the storage array that you want to use. The
installation opens a text file in Notepad. Follow the instructions in the text file. After you have added the
storage array and closed Notepad, the installation program continues normally.
The SMI-S Provider is installed on your system. After the installation, you can delete the installation executable file.
Installing SMI-S Provider For Linux-Based Operating Systems
To install the SMI-S Provider:
1. Move the SMI-S Provider RPM package file into the file system on the server where you want to install SMI-S
Provider.
2. Run the following command: rpm -ivh <rpm package name> .rpm
To change the OpenPegasus CIMOM configuration, see Configuring CIM Server.
Configuring CIM Server
Use the following commands to perform basic CIM server configuration operations.
Function Command
To set an http port # cimconfig -s httpPort=<port> -p
To set an https port # cimconfig -s httpsPort==<port> -p
To enable or disable
the http connection
# cimconfig -s enableHttpConnection={true | false} -p
To enable or disable
the https connection
# cimconfig -s enableHttpsConnection={true | false} -p
To enable or disable
authentication
# cimconfig -s enableAuthentication={false | true} –p
To add a user for
defining the
credentials for CIM
client to authenticate
with the CIM server
cimuser -a -u username -w password
To remove a user # cimuser -r -u username -w password
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Function Command
To enable or disable
service location
protocol (SLP)
# cimconfig -s slp={true | false} -p
If SLP is enabled, see the table below for additional settings information.
Commands are of the following format: cimconfig -s <propertyName>={true|
false} -p where <propertyName> is a column heading in the following table.
Table 1. Additional Setting Information if SLP is Enabled
propertyName
runinternal
PegasusSLP
runinternal
PegasusSLP
registerExter
nal
PegasusSLP
register
Multiple SLP Behavior
true false false false Internal Pegasus SLP is
started when cimserver
starts.
false true false false External Pegasus SLP
registration runs in
cimserver with a
default registration
timeout set to 3 hours
(same as the SLP
default timeout).
false false true false External OpenSLP
registration is run in
CIM server.
false false true true External OpenSLP
registration is
attempted and falls
back to external
Pegasus SLP
registration if it fails
(default setting).
false true false true External Pegasus SLP
registration is
attempted and falls
back to external
OpenSLP registration if
it fails.
NOTE: All other combinations of the SLP property values have undefined behavior.
For more information, see the documentation available in the source release archive at openpegasus.org.
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Uninstalling SMI-S Provider
Uninstalling SMI-S Provider For Windows-Based Operating Systems
1. Click Start → Control Panel → Add or Remove Programs (or Programs and Features for Microsoft Windows Server
2008).
2. 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. Manually delete these files to completely remove
SMI-S Provider.
Uninstalling SMI-S Provider For Linux-Based Operating Systems
1. In a terminal window, run the command: rpm -e <package name>
The un-installation process may leave files that were not part of the original installation.
2. Manually delete the original installation files to completely remove SMI-S Provider.
Managing The SMI-S Provider
Starting And Stopping The OpenPegasus CIM Server
Starting And Stopping The OpenPegasus CIM Server For Windows-Based Operating Systems
To start or stop the OpenPegasus CIM server:
1. Open the Services window and locate the cimserver service.
2. Right-click cimserver service and select start or stop.
3. To start a service, run the following command in the command prompt: net start cimserver
4. To stop a service, run the following command in the command prompt: net stop cimserver
Starting And Stopping The OpenPegasus CIM Server For Linux-Based Operating Systems
1. To start the OpenPegasus CIM server, run the following command on a terminal window: cimserver
2. To stop the OpenPegasus CIM server, run the following command on a terminal window: cimserver
Adding Or Removing A Storage Array From The SMI-S Provider
During installation, you are prompted to enter the IP addresses into a file. After this initial setup, the SMI-enabled client
must use the SMI-S Provider proxy server system management profile to add or remove devices.
NOTE: When a storage array is added, the IP address of only one of the management ports of the storage array
must be supplied (and not both management ports). Entering the IP addresses for both management ports of a
single storage array causes unpredictable behavior of the SMI-S Provider.
Changing The Debug Tracing Option
NOTE: After changing the tracing levels, stop and start OpenPegasus CIM server for the changes to take effect.
Turn on tracing only under the direction of your technical support representative.
To change the debug tracing option:
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1. 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.
2. 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.
b) Edit the file name in the field File.
This file contains the trace messages.
3. Save providerTraceLog.properties file and exit the text file editor.
4. Stop and start the OpenPegasus CIM server.
See Starting And Stopping The OpenPegasus CIM Server.
Troubleshooting The SMI-S Provider
The following table lists some of the common issues and their resolutions.
Table 2. Common Issues and Resolutions
Issue Recommended Action
The following message is displayed if SMI-S Provider is
installed on a system for the first time:
cimserver not started: Bind failed:
Failed to bind socket
on port 5989: Address already in use
(error code 125).
This issue occurs when there is a port conflict. To resolve
the conflict, remove the application that is using the port
or select a different port.
To select a different port:
1. Stop the CIM server.
2. Set the new ports using the following commands:
cimconfig -s httpPort=<HTTP PORT> -
p
imconfig -s httpsPort=<HTTPS PORT>
-p
3. Start the CIM server.
CIMOM default port in use is not reported in the Microsoft
Windows operating system.
In Windows, if the default ports 5988 and 5989 are already
in use during the SMI-S Provider installation, no message
is displayed to confirm that the ports are in use.
To resolve the conflict:
1. Edit the cimserver_current.conf and
cimserver_planned.conf files.
2. Specify the open ports.
3. Start the CIM server.
Service Location Protocol Service Agents (SLP SA) in
multi-CIMOM environments.
Only one SLP SA per individual server can be active
because SAs require the fixed port 477.
NOTE: If the operation started on a non-standard port,
dynamic SLP discovery of the CIM service is not
possible.
The CIM client methods fail due to authentication error:
Return Code -4
During installation, you do not run into any issues with the
storage array password because the SMI-S Provider does
not yet have information about the storage arrays to
manage. However, after you add the storage arrays, a
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