Sunday, February 12, 2023

Verifying that Every EMC Disk Arrays are Properly Attached to an EMC SMI-S Provider

Just update ViPR SRM to point to the new Windows 2016 with SMI-S provider.  However, SMI-S complains it cannot retrieve the info of the array.  Confirm ECOM is running and symcfg list shows the VMAX array.

Restart ECOM service and ViPR SRM can retrieve the stats from the array.   However, I try to find out how to confirm EMC SMI-S does detect the array. 

Follow the kb.
https://www.sentrysoftware.com/kb/KB1132.html

Below is the kb copied from the link. 

Objective

Monitoring EMC disk arrays requires to configure the EMC SMI-S Provider to make sure that the arrays are being discovered. EMC disk arrays are automatically discovered when they are locally attached to the EMC SMI-S Provider. This article explains how to make sure that the EMC SMI-S Provider discovers all disk arrays by using the TestSmiProvider tool.

Procedure

  1. Logon to the server where the EMC SMI-S provider is installed
  2. Run the TestSmiProvider.exe which can generally be found under “C:\ProgramFiles\EMC\ECIM\ECOM\bin”
    C:\Program Files\EMC\ECIM\ECOM\bin>TestSmiProvider.exe
    Connection Type (ssl,no_ssl) [no_ssl]:
    Host [localhost]:
    Port [5988]:
    Username [admin]:
    Password [#1Password]:
    Log output to console [y|n (default y)]:y
    Log output to file [y|n (default y)]:
    Logfile path [Testsmiprovider.log]:
    Connecting to localhost:5988
    Using user account 'admin' with password '#1Password'
    ########################################################################
    ##                                                                    ##
    ##                  EMC SMI Provider Tester                           ##
    ##   This program is intended for use by EMC Support personnel only.  ##
    ##   At any time and without warning this program may be revised      ##
    ##   without regard to backwards compatibility or be                  ##
    ##   removed entirely from the kit.                                   ##
    ########################################################################
      slp    - slp urls                     slpv    - slp attributes
      cn     - Connect                      dc      - Disconnect
      disco  - EMC Discover                 rc      - RepeatCount
      addsys - EMC AddSystem                remsys  - EMC RemoveSystem
      refsys - EMC RefreshSystem
      ec     - EnumerateClasses             ecn     - EnumerateClassNames
      ei     - EnumerateInstances           ein     - EnumerateInstanceNames
      ens    - EnumerateNamespaces          mine    - Mine classes
      a      - Associators                  an      - AssociatorNames
      r      - References                   rn      - ReferenceNames
      gi     - GetInstance                  gc      - GetClass
      ci     - CreateInstance               di      - DeleteInstance
      mi     - ModifyInstance               eq      - ExecQuery
      gp     - GetProperty                  sp      - SetProperty
      tms    - TotalManagedSpace            tp      - Test pools
      ecap   - Extent Capacity              pd      - Profile Discovery
      im     - InvokeMethod                 active  - ActiveControls
      ind    - Indications menu             tv      - Test views
      st     - Set timeout value            lc      - Log control
      sl     - Start listener               dv      - Display version info
      ns     - NameSpace                    vtl     - VTL menu

      q      - Quit                         h       - Help
    ########################################################################
    Namespace: root/emc
    repeat count: 1
  3. Run the command eq at the prompt
    (localhost:5988) ? eq
    Query Language[DMTF:CQL]:
  4. Run the below query
    Query []: SELECT EMC_ArrayChassis.SerialNumber FROM EMC_ArrayChassis

A working provider will return the following for each disk system attached to this provider:

++++ Testing ExecQuery:  ++++
Instance 0:
ObjectPath : //10.0.10.54/root/emc:Clar_ArrayChassis.CreationClassName="Clar_ArrayChassis",Tag="CLARiiON+CKM00083900053"


Clar_ArrayChassis


CLARiiON+CKM00083900053


CKM00083900053

Number of instance qualifiers: 0
Number of instance properties: 3
Property: CreationClassName Number of qualifiers: 0
Property: Tag Number of qualifiers: 0
Property: SerialNumber Number of qualifiers: 0
ExceQuery 1 instances; repeat count 1;return data in 0.000000 seconds
Retrieve and Display data - 1 Iteration(s) In 0.062400 Seconds

A failing provider will return the following:

++++ Testing ExecQuery:  ++++
Error: Connection closed by CIM Server.
Retrieve and Display data - 1 Iteration(s) In 0.053000 Seconds
Please press enter key to continue...

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