Dell EMC ECS data source

09/09/2022 Contributors

This data collector acquires inventory and performance data from EMC ECS storage systems. For configuration, the data collector requires an IP address of the ECS server and an administrative level domain account..

Terminology

OnCommand Insight acquires the following inventory information from the EMC ECS 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

Cluser

Storage

Tenant

Storage Pool

Bucket

Internal Volume

Disk

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

Requirements

An IP address of the ECS Management Console
Administrative level domain account for the ECS system
Port 443 (HTTPS). Requires outbound connectivity to TCP port 443 on the ECS system.
For performance, read-only username and password for ssh/scp access.
For performance, port 22 is required.

Configuration

Field

Description

ECS Host

IP addresses or fully-qualified domain names of the ECS system

ECS Host Port

Port used for communication with ECS Host

ECS Vendor ID

Vendor ID for ECS

Password

Password used for ECS

Advanced configuration