PowerPath and SCOM

Hi.  Would you please provide more information as to the issue?  Also, what is your case number with Customer Service?

Thanks.

Brion,

The case number is 33635538.  It seems to be an issue with a registry parameter being called from the Management Pack the parameter we are seeing is Registy Key “ABC”.

My SCOM Engineer is out all this week, so I can only answer to a certain degree.

Bing59

I spoke with escalation team and your issue is currently under review with both Customer Service and Engineering.  Please continue to work through Customer Service at this time.  Your issue will be resolved.  Thanks.

Hi bing,

i was trying to implement this but with no luck , am interested to know the results .

thnx

Let's Hope.

Hi.  It depends on the level of monitoring that you are looking for.  On Windows, the PowerPath Monitor provides a GUI-based tool for monitoring path state and status for all PowerPath-managed devices.  For all PowerPath-supported platforms, there is the "powermt" CLI.  You can create scripts to monitor specific information.  I find the "powermt display every=x" very useful (where "x" is the time in seconds).  This CLI command provides a looping output of state, status, IO/ses, and errors for each path. You could redirect its output to a file and monitor that file for specific words like "failed" or "dead."  Later this year, we will be introducing "PowerPath Viewer" which will provide a centralized graphical monitoring tool.  Administrators will be able to monitor hundreds of PowerPath hosts from a single Windows GUI.

I hope this helps.

-Brion

Hi Brion ,

is there is any way to monitor the paths without this SNMP Config tool ?? SNMP is full of vulnerabilities !

I know man

I was asking for a way to integrate SCOM without enabling the SNMP!

Ahhhh....gotcha!

Sorry, but no.

Will this GUI be able to send out alerts via Email or some other reporting tool?

Later this year, we will be introducing "PowerPath Viewer" which will provide a centralized graphical monitoring tool.  Administrators will be able to monitor hundreds of PowerPath hosts from a single Windows GUI.

And will it be a cost involved or a free supported App. that can be installed along with Powerpath.

Bing

Are you sure, cause I tried to disable the SNMP and I received an alert !! so why to install this SNMP agent , do you have any guide how it works (The EMC PP SNMP configuration tool) ..

Yes, it will send out e-mail messages for events.  The packaging/pricing details are still being worked out.  We should have some new information soon.

So what the needs of the snmp tool 1

I am working on that now.

Hi.  Please review the following information and let me know if you find this helpful or not.  Thanks.

The PowerPath management pack(MP) provides for monitoring the windows event log for PowerPath events getting generated on the host having PowerPath installed. It is based on these events that the MP conditionally generates the following:

(a) Alerts that can be seen in the SCOM monitoring console

(b) SNMP traps

SNMP is needed on the PP host to aid the MP in doing (b) above i.e. generating the SNMP traps. The EMC PP SNMP cofiguration tool deploys a set of binaries that work with the windows SNMP service and the PP MP to generate the SNMP traps for dead paths/volumes. The SNMP traps contain information on the dead paths/volumes that remain dead for more than an acceptable time delay which is user configurable(editing pp_delay.config file). This config file is also deployed as part of the PP SNMP config tool.