ECC 5.2 and Sym Management Console

SMC has no direct attachment to the ECC product. The only requirements are that you install the appropriate Solutions Enabler version prior to installing SMC.

You would need to have the server zoned to the Symmetrix you want to manage and ideallly will also allocate at least 4-8 gatekeeper devices.

Best way to think about SMC is that it is really just a GUI front-end to Solutions Enabler.

Thanks for the good info. There is an older verson of Solutions Enabler installed - I'm not sure how to tell which version. I want to install the new SE 6.510 for on this Windows server.

Do I need to uninstall the old version first? I think ECC 5.2 is using this older version so I'm not sure if I can just install SE 6.510 or need to stop all ECC services first. I have downloaded the SE 6.5110 msi but so far I have not been able to find installation instructions.

OK, got it figured out. Had to stop all EMC services - then uninstall SE and then re-install with new SE.

Hi BradRondeau,

Just like some input. I am also in the process of installing the SMC. Like to tap on your experience. I have a similiar ECC 5.2.4. and want to install SMC. Look like you are putting ECC and SMC together, is there a conflict between the 2 application? will the ECC display info be unsync after you use EMC to map/mask disk? Appreciate you feedback.

Leetuck

SMC and ECC can live fine together and at the latest version of ECC you can launch into SMC with a right click on the array. EMC's long term direction is supposedly to leverage platform specific tools like SMC from within ECC and do away with the disk management tools (SDR) within ECC.

As long as you have not modified the default scanning policies ECC will detect and rescan changes made external to it within minutes of the changes being made. There is a very slight window where you could have a discrepency between ECC and what is really on the Symmetrix, but you would have to work hard to break the timing since normally the locking mechanisms on the Symmetrix would keep you from having multiple changes going in one shot. Now if you have modified your configuration scanning policies to run very infrequently you could have more of an issue with changes not reflecting quickly.

SMC is very tied to the Solutions enabler so my only word of caution is that you need to find the right version of SMC for the versions of SE that you use with your 5.2 ECC agents. Check your Discovery policy and make sure you are not set to run only daily or twice daily (default is like 15 minutes) which would be the other concern I'd have.

Good luck

hmmm, When I goto localhost:7070 it is actually bringing up the web version of ECC 5.2 - thats why the password failed. Somehow I need it to bring up SMC instead of ECC.

When I goto ECC and right click on the array I do not see a selection to go to SMC.

Thanks for info. I upgraded SE to the latest version. My ECC 5.2 seems to work well on that 6.51 SE.

I crazy question. I just installed SMC and used the default initital user of smc. I think the password should also be smc. I'm getting login failures when I try smc for both ID and Password.

Anybody know the default password?