tape library discovery into ECC

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly about an SMI agent in ECC...

Do you already have an SMI provider set up to talk to your tape library? If so, then you just point to the SMI provider instance with the assisted discovery in ECC.

If you don't have one set up yet I believe you need to get one (check with your tape library vendor) and configure it to monitor your host to allow discovery through ECC.

Which version of ECC are you running?

Hi,

Our ECC version is 6.0

Do I need to talk to tape library vendor for SMI provider?

Thanks,
Bannu.

I would assume so. If you take the example of FC switch discovery for Brocade switches, Brocade actually produces and distributes the SMI Provider that CC talks to. EMC distributes a version of Solutions Enabler that exposes and SMI Provider interface for discovery of EMC arrays (e.g. CLARiiON, Symmetrix). I would have to assume that IBM or STK (or whoever) distributes SMI providers for their tape libraries.

I've always manually created MOs in CC for tape libraries and manually associated the WWNs of the tape drives to the MOs. Now you have me thinking though... I should probably look into SMI providers for the libraries if they are available.

Hello Bannu,

i discovered our two quantum i2000 in ECC 6.0. I had to do only two things.
1.) Activate SMI-S on library (it have an integrated smi-s provider)
2.) Install SMI-S Agent to discover this library

Then I just discovered our two librarys. But I get only very limited informations...

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Andreas Schroeer

Hi Andreas,

We are planning to bring Spectra Logic tape library in.

Do I need to ask the Spectra guy to Activate the SMI-S on library?

How to install SMI-S Agent in ECC6.0.Do I need to ask EMC support?

Please share your experince with me.Thankyou for providing me the information.

Regards,
Bannu.

First talk to your vendor (Spectra guy) and clarify if this library support SMI-S 1.1. When it support this ask if you need an extra smi-s provider or if this is integrated.

Just install SMI-S Agent on one Host (I think this is only supported on Win) which have network connection to library and ecc server. When you have several host in ECC just go to this host -> right mous click -> Agents -> install and select SMI-S.

But it could be that your tape library is not supported by ECC. Look at support matrix.

Hi,

Where can I get the SMI-S agent to install in ECC(I need to install on ECC server right?)

Can you please assist me.

Thanks,
Bannu.

No, you could use every server which have ecc agents installed. If master agent is installed and service is running you have to use ECC Console to install agents.

I found the Storage agent for SMI on ECC server(right click-install-storage agent for SMI).

Can I install on ECC server.If so,after that how to discover the tape library?

Provider name space?

It is a spectralogic tape library.

Can anyone please assist me.

Thanks,
Bannu.

Hey,

yes you could install SMI-Agent on Ecc Server.
Which spectralogic tape library do you have?!

SpectraLogic T950.

Thanks,
Bannu.

I`m not sure if your T950 support SMI-S. Please contact your support representative by spetralogic and ask if SMI-S is support by this library. Have you an admin guide or something like this for your T950? Look at it and search for SMI-S.

I put this into a RFE year+ ago and figured I put it in here in case anybody from EMC is listening.

Not every physical tape library supports SMI-S (in fact very few do, or charge you a hefty fee to support it), when we had EMC CDL's they never were supported (smi-s or native agent), our VTL software doesn't support SMI-S; the requirement that tape can only be automatically discovered rather than specified is a huge, massive pain. I ended up manually specifiying that the drives was hitachi storage so zoning policies would work right.

I can add a host manually in ECC, I can add a FC switch manually, I can add an ESX server manually, I can add storage manually in ECC. For the love of pete why will you allow me to do all that, but *not* let me specify a FC device seen on the san is a tape device so that my zoning policies actually will work for that and so I don't have to fiddle with storagescope reports to hide them. I should be able to at least categorize *any* device that is visible on the san, sure auto finding is great but if I have to start lieing to the software (my tape drive is really a HDS USP-v) to get it to work in the software that is massivley poor decision, especially since almost everything else I can categorize.

{sorry folks, some strange network glitch caused a duplicate post so I'm just editing out the duplicate... since I can't seem to delete it}