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November 5th, 2008 12:00

SDm agent for remote DMX-4

We recently added a DMX-4 to a remote DR site. It is connected to a 48000 that is merged into our production fabric...We zoned it to ECC server so it was discovered in ECC and we can see information, It is not managed by a SDM agent so we cannot mask. we have two SDM agents..one one server I zoned that server to an FA on the DMX-4 but that DMX-4 doesn't appear under SDM agents even when they were stop/started..I red somewhere that you must have SDM on host attached to the SYM and not thru SRDF connection..we are using SRDF but the fabrics are merged so it would seem it shoudl appear as the other SYSM in our environment..how do we get thei SYM under an SDM agent since there are no hosts at the DR site at this time..

scott

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November 5th, 2008 15:00

Hi,

The SDM agent has to be installed on a host that is directly connected to a Symmetrix in order to monitor the VCMDB and do masking changes.


Regards,
Séamus Coffey
EMC Global Services

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November 5th, 2008 15:00

Point is this is all one big fabric so the SYM doesn't know where a host resides as long as you can zone the two together..can a sdm agent control more than one sysm or do you need a sdm agent for each sym on different hosts...and maybe because this sysm is new and is alerting that there are no gatekeepers related?

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November 6th, 2008 00:00

Hi,

Yes, a SDM agent can manage multiple Symms. This is only if it has an in-band FC connection to the arrays and the VCMDB is presented to the agent host.

I have uploaded a White Paper: Using ControlCenter to manage Symmetrix Arrays in a Multi-hop Configuration to ftp://ftp.emc.com/outgoing/symmdoc

It's a pretty old doc from way back in CC 5.1.2 - however, the same principles should still apply in the latest CC versions.

Hope it helps.


Regards,
Séamus Coffey
EMC Global Services
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