Symantec Veritas CommandCentral 5.1 User manual

Veritas CommandCentral™
Getting Started Guide
for Microsoft Windows and UNIX
5.1

CommandCentral™Getting Started Guide
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Getting started with the
CommandCentral family
This document includes the following topics:
■About the CommandCentral family
■About Veritas CommandCentral Storage
■About Veritas CommandCentral Storage Change Manager
■About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter
■Getting CommandCentral up and running
■Where to find more information about CommandCentral
About the CommandCentral family
The CommandCentral family includes the following modules:
■CommandCentral Storage: A storage resource management solution that
provides centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous storage
environments while reducing risks and costs.
For more information, refer to the following:
See “About Veritas CommandCentral Storage”on page 8.
■CommandCentral Storage Change Manager: A storage change management
solution that provides insight into storage infrastructure related changes in
your data center, helping you to ensure the availability of your storage
infrastructure, manage service level agreements more effectively, and improve
operational efficiency.
For more information, refer to the following:
See “About Veritas CommandCentral Storage Change Manager”on page 18.

■CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter: Provides a global view of storage assets
mapped to your organization, business insight about inventory and utilization,
on-demand customized reporting, and personalized dashboards.
For more information, refer to the following:
See “About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter”on page 20.
About Veritas CommandCentral Storage
Veritas CommandCentral Storage by Symantec represents an entire storage
resource management (SRM) solution, giving you what you need to manage your
storage infrastructure more effectively. It gives you the following capabilities:
■Offers a single console from which data center administrators deploy, manage,
and expand a multi-vendor networked storage environment. The
CommandCentral Storage Console seamlessly integrates performance and
policy management, storage provisioning, and zoning capabilities to ensure
that the storage infrastructure runs as efficiently as possible. The Console
enables users to set policies that automate notification, recovery, and other
user-definable actions.
■Discovers and tracks the utilization and allocation of storage resources down
to the disk level. The reporting features in CommandCentral Storage provide
a complete and detailed view into precisely how and where storage—for office
documents, files, applications, email, and databases—is used in your enterprise.
■Shows usage trends and makes forward projections. You can gather data both
locally and remotely (through a managed host). This means you can get baseline
information without huge deployment costs. Armed with this data, you can
do predictive modeling to analyze the return on your storage investment. You
also have what you need to implement a program of departmental chargeback.
Using CommandCentral Storage together with other Symantec software, IT
managers have the tools they need to perform real, active, end-to-end storage
resource management and make strategic decisions about their future storage
needs.
By actively managing the entire data path from application to array,
CommandCentral Storage helps ensure optimal performance and availability of
business critical applications. CommandCentral Storage also offers customizable
policy-based management to automate notification, recovery, and other
user-definable actions.
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What’s new in CommandCentral Storage 5.1
CommandCentral Storage 5.1 contains and builds upon CommandCentral Storage
5.0 functionality, providing several new features.
Management and discovery
CommandCentral Storage 5.1 introduces the following management and discovery
features.
Enhanced agentless discovery of storage resources
If you do not install the CommandCentral managed host on hosts in your storage
network, the CommandCentral Management Server can discover those hosts and
their connections to storage resources through agentless discovery.
The process involves creating a user-created host in order to associate the
unidentified adapter (HBA) discovered through switch discovery to the host to
which it connects. In previous versions of CommandCentral, you could do this
one host at a time. Now, CommandCentral 5.1 provides you with the ability to
create multiple hosts at once and to automate the process by creating rules and
importing information from a CSV file.
For more information about this feature, see the CommandCentral Storage User’s
Guide.
Detection of configuration related changes to storage arrays
In CommandCentral Storage 5.0 MP1, explorers initiate discovery of devices based
on the explorer’s polling interval. The polling interval is the amount of time that
the explorer waits to initiate discovery of the device. For example, the polling
interval might be 180 minutes.
In CommandCentral Storage 5.1, explorers continue to initiate discovery of devices
based on the explorer’s polling interval; however, for certain array explorers, you
can also enable change detection. When you enable change detection, explorers
listen to SNMP traps or frequently poll storage arrays—for example, every 15
minutes—in order to detect configuration related changes to that array—for
example, masking changes. When the explorer detects configuration related
changes to the storage array, the explorer initiates a full discovery of the array.
For example, if you enable change detection for EMC CLARiiON storage arrays,
by default, the explorer listens for SNMP traps from CLARiiON storage arrays.
When the explorer detects changes, it initiates discovery of the array. Because
the explorer discovers the changes in near real-time, CommandCentral Storage
can provide you with more up-to-date information about the storage array. In
contrast, if you do not enable change detection, discovery occurs only when the
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explorer polls the storage array using the polling interval—for example, a polling
interval of 180 minutes.
Change detection is available for the following storage arrays:
■EMC CLARiiON
■EMC Symmetrix
■Hitachi HiCommand
■HP EVA
■NetApp unified storage devices
For information about enabling change detection, see the CommandCentral
Hardware and Software Configuration Guide.
Improved Data Module file scanning
In CommandCentral Storage 5.0 MP1, the Data Module file scanner determines a
file’s size by its logical size. Now, in CommandCentral Storage 5.1, the file scanner
also collects a file’s physical size. A file’s physical size provides you with a more
accurate account of space consumption over the logical size. You can use the Data
Module Importer settings and Data Module rules to specify whether you want
summary reports that report on directory size, user consumption, file type usage,
and aging data to display a file’s size by its logical size or physical size.
Additionally, you can drill down into detail reports to display both the logical size
and physical size.
For more information, see the CommandCentral Administrator’s Guide.
Discovery of device groups and composite groups for EMC Symmetrix
storage arrays
CommandCentral Storage now discovers the name of the device groups and
composite groups to which devices from EMC Symmetrix storage arrays belong.
The group names appear when you view an EMC Symmetrix storage array’s Devices
pane.
Discovery of replication objects for HP EVA storage arrays
CommandCentral Storage now discovers the following replication objects for HP
EVA storage arrays:
■Snapshots
■Vsnaps
■Snapclones
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