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Data Infrastructure Insights

HP Enterprise Alletra 9000 / Primera Storage data collector

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Data Infrastructure Insights uses the HP Enterprise Alletra 9000 / HP Enterprise Primera (previously 3PAR) data collector to discover inventory and performance.

Terminology

Data Infrastructure Insights acquires the following inventory information from this data collector. For each asset type acquired by Data Infrastructure Insights, the most common terminology used for this asset is shown. When viewing or troubleshooting this data collector, keep the following terminology in mind:

Field Description

Physical Disk

Disk

Storage System

Storage

Controller Node

Storage Node

Common Provisioning Group

Storage Pool

Virtual Volume

Volume

Note: These are common terminology mappings only and might not represent every case for this data collector.

Requirements

The following are required to configure this data collector:

  • IP address or FQDN of the InServ cluster

  • For inventory, read-only user name and password to the StoreServ Server

  • For performance, read-write user name and password to the StoreServ Server

  • Port requirements: 22 (inventory collection), 5988 or 5989 (performance collection) [Note: Performance is supported for StoreServ OS 3.x+]

  • For performance collection confirm that SMI-S is enabled by logging into the array via SSH.

Configuration

Field Description

Storage IP address

Storage IP address or fully-qualified domain name of the StoreServ cluster

User Name

User name for the StoreServ Server

Password

Password used for the StoreServ Server

SMI-S User Name

User name for the SMI-S Provider Host

SMI-S Password

Password used for the SMI-S Provider Host

Advanced configuration

Field Description

Inventory Poll Interval (min)

Interval between inventory polls. The default is 40 minutes.

SMI-S Connectivity

Protocol used to connect to the SMI-S provider

Override SMI-S Default Port

If blank, use the default port from SMI-S Connectivity, otherwise enter the connection port to use

Performance Poll Interval (sec)

Interval between performance polls. The default is 300 seconds.

Troubleshooting

Some things to try if you encounter problems with this data collector:

Inventory

Problem: Try this:

"showsys" command doesn't return any result.

Run "showsys" and "showversion -a" from the command line and check if the version is supported by the array.

Performance

Problem: Try this:

Failed to connect or login. Provider initialization failed.

An all-numeric array name can cause problems with SMI-S server. Try changing the array name.

SMI-S user configured does not have any domain

Grant appropriate domain privileges to the configured SMI-S user

Data Infrastructure Insights states that it cannot connect/login to SMI-S service.

Confirm there is no firewall between the CI AU and the array that would block the CI AU from making TCP connections to 5988 or 5989.
Once that is done, and if you have confirmed there is no firewall, you should SSH to the array, and use the “showcim” command to confirm.

Verify that:

* Service is enabled
* HTTPS is enabled
* HTTPS port should be 5989

If those all are so, you can try to “stopcim” and then a “startcim” to restart the CIM (i.e. SMI-S service).

Additional information may be found from the Support page or in the Data Collector Support Matrix.