Chapter 5. Configuration and administration tasks
5.1 Adding resources to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
5.1.2 Adding IBM storage systems
Generally the storage devices from IBM will be added using the native API, instead of using SMI-S with CIMOMs. The type of information you will be asked to provide, needed to add the device to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center depends on the device type. This is not new with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2.
In this section, we walk through the tasks to add a SAN Volume Controller to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. The tasks are similar for other IBM storage systems:
1. Check the support matrix for the required level of firmware before you begin adding a device:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21386446
Note: The discovery job that tries to find servers in a Windows domain or NAS servers is still available in the stand-alone GUI.
From the support matrix page, click the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.2.x version in the column labeled
Storage
. This takes you to the list of supported storage systems and the supported firmware levels. If applicable, the SMI-S information and supported functions are listed.2. After verifying the required firmware levels, go to the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center web-based GUI to add the SVC. Navigate to the Storage Resources Storage
Systems panel as shown in Figure 5-1. From the empty list of Storage Systems click Add Storage System.
Figure 5-1 Add storage system
3. A dialog appears (see Figure 5-2 on page 89) which lets you select the type of device that you want to add. The panel shows the IBM devices and “All others”, for the storage systems of other vendors.
Figure 5-2 Select the type of device
If you look carefully, you will notice that IBM SONAS devices cannot be added using the web-based GUI. To add IBM SONAS devices you must use the stand-alone GUI. In the stand-alone GUI, go to Disk Manager Storage Subsystems and click Add Storage Subsystem to launch the Add Device wizard.
4. Clicking the SVC icon opens the Add Device wizard that is shown in Figure 5-3.
Figure 5-3 Specify connection details
5. Complete the connection information so that Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can discover the devices that are available for this datasource.
Note: The IBM storage systems DS6000™, ESS, and DS4000/5000 are listed, even though they use SMI-S instead of the native API. The only difference between these IBM storage subsystems and the type “All others” is that the correct namespace is already preselected.
6. When you have entered the required information, click Next.
At this point, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center attempts to connect to the device. The process is basically the same as the process the wizard in the stand-alone GUI performed in previous releases.
If you add a connection that allows Tivoli Storage Productivity Center to communicate with more than one device (typically an SMI-S connection), the discovery process (shown in Figure 5-4) will detect this.
Figure 5-4 Running a discovery job
7. Since we are adding an SVC, the discovery did not find more devices. The configuration step of the Add Device wizard will look similar to Figure 5-5 on page 91.
Note: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can add an SVC or Storwize V7000 using only a user ID and password instead of Secure Shell (SSH) keys for SVC version 6.3 or later. This makes adding the devices simple. If a customer has strict rules about how often a password needs to be changed, using SSH keys might be the better option. Tip: If you plan to use the provisioning function, or if you have more than one Tivoli Storage Productivity Center server in your environment, consider using dedicated user IDs and SSH keys per Tivoli Storage Productivity Center server. This way you can easily perform the following tasks:
Disable a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center server to access a device by deleting the ID or changing the password.
Review the audit log files of a device to identify the commands that were issued by a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center server.
Figure 5-5 Initial device configuration
This step is different from the Add Device wizard in the stand-alone GUI. Previously, you would have selected a monitoring group so that Tivoli Storage Productivity Center would manage items like the probe scheduling and alerting based on the group membership. This is no longer required because the Add Device wizard has been enhanced with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2 in the following ways:
– Provide a name for the device – Complete the location of the device – Adjust the scheduling
– Enable performance collection and set the interval
When you have provided all information and adjusted the scheduling based on your needs, click Configure.
In previous versions, you had to wait for the first probe to set up the performance data collections. With Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, V5.2.2 will do all the configuration for you in the background and start the performance collection as soon as possible after the initial probe.
8. When you see the dialog in Figure 5-6, click Close.
Figure 5-6 Device has been configured