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OnCommand Insight

3PAR InServ data source

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OnCommand Insight uses the 3PAR InServ (Firmware 2.2.2+, SSH) data source to discover inventory for HP 3PAR StoreServ storage arrays.

Terminology

OnCommand Insight acquires the following inventory information from the 3PAR InServ data source. For each asset type acquired by Insight, the most common terminology used for this asset is shown. When viewing or troubleshooting this data source, keep the following terminology in mind:

Vendor/Model Term

Insight Term

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 source.

Requirements

  • IP address or FQDN of the InServ cluster

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

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

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

  • For performance collection confirm that SMI-S is enabled by logging into the 3PAR array via SSH.

Configuration

Field

Description

Cluster IP

IP address or fully-qualified domain name of the InServ cluster

User Name

User name for the InServ Server

Password

Password used for the InServ Server

SMI-S Host IP

IP address of the SMI-S Provider Host

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 (default 40 minutes)

Exclude Devices

Comma-separated list of device IPs to exclude

SSH Process Wait Timeout (sec)

SSH process timeout (default 60 seconds)

Number of SSH Retries

Number of SSH retry attempts

SSH Banner Wait Timeout (sec)

SSH banner wait timeout (default 20 seconds)

SMI-S Port

Port used by SMI-S Provider Host

Protocol

Protocol used to connect to the SMI-S provider

SMI-S namespace

SMI-S namespace

Performance Poll Interval (sec)

Interval between performance polls (default 300 seconds)

Number of SMI-S Connection Retries

Number of SMI-S connection retry attempts