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Ask the Expert: Best Practice for ViPR SRM Solution Pack installation and configuration
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During this event we'll go over the best ways to install, manage and configure various Solution Pack into ViPR SRM, and steps to discover the various products/devices/objects into SRM for monitoring and reporting purpose.
We'd like to invite you to check out a quick demo of EMC's ViPR SRM. The video cover a quick overview of the various report packs, Capacity Calculator, Capacity Planner, Topological view and ViPR Dashboard.
Our support subject matter experts are available during the period of this event to provide you detailed information and support on any of your queries.
Meet Your Experts:
Techincal Support II - EMC, ViPR SRM Shrinjoy has more than 5 years of experience as Technical Consultant, Support and System Administration Roles. He also has rich experience in Production support for Windows and Linux Servers, and EMC, HP and Netapp Storage arrays. Moreover, Shrinjoy has strong working knowledge in VMware and is VCP Certified, as well as certified in EMC ViPR SRM and EMC Vplex, along with ITIL v3 Foundation. |
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Technical Support II - EMC CS Remote Pritam has a total of over 5 yeras of IT Experience, 2 of which working at EMC. He's a member of the EMC India ASD (Advanced Software Division) and Storage Resource Management Team. He is experienced in software development, product deployment, Software/Product Support. Pritam is VXN Certified and SRM Certified Professional. |
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RobertoAraujo1
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December 14th, 2015 05:00
Welcome all, this Ask the Expert session is now open for questions. For the next couple of weeks our Subject Matter Experts will be around to reply to your questions, comments or inquiries about our topic. Let’s make this conversation useful, respectful and entertaining for all. Cheers!
Anonymous User
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December 14th, 2015 11:00
Hi,
Please provide a consolidated docs for ViPR SRM, with Architecture and Admin details.
Thanks
Rakesh
iq_brent
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December 14th, 2015 20:00
Hi,
I would like to know in the case where I want to modify the collection that is installed by the SP what is your best procedure to avoid this from being blown away during upgrade. Currently I take away write permissions from apg, but this causes different problems. The other way is to manually track every file change I have done then after an upgrade merge my changes back together.
Also, please do not consolidate all of the doco, I think the doco is structured perfectly as it is.
dnorton1
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December 15th, 2015 07:00
The collection is part of a SolutionPack, and the SolutionPacks are automatically versioned (starting with 3.5). You can switch between versions in the Admin Console:
You probably want to use the newest version, since it will have bug fixes, new reports, etc. But you can export your changes from the previous version and import them into the new version.
gskousik
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December 16th, 2015 04:00
Hi Guys,
Does SRM support SNMP v3 now? Are we able to monitor Fabric switches with SNMP v3 on?
Thanks
wtg990
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December 17th, 2015 02:00
Hello Gurus
I have a question regarding the vApp deployments and scaling the environment.
If you start with the standard 4VM vApp but then have to scale out to report on more devices and scale up the back end using vApps are there any guidelines / best practice for doing this.
For example when an additional back end is created is the load redistributed.
I've seen some of the guidance on collector limits but typically the SRM health shows components under stress well before approaching any metrics limits in our lab. So any advice on when additional collectors should be added.
And finally are there any implications for the upgrade process once a deployment has been expanded.
Thanks
iq_brent
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December 17th, 2015 15:00
FYI,
I really like the new scale out tools in 3.7! its making my life so much easier and it works every time!
Appreciate it fellas!
wtg990
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December 18th, 2015 01:00
Planning to trial 3.7 soon so that's interesting information, thanks
chrygel
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December 18th, 2015 04:00
Hi
we are at the beginning of a storage migration project. Now we get continously spamed by SRM with Messages like:
"Thin device is now 85% used"
We can't find the Trigger in SRM to turn off this message. How can we identify where a specific alert originates?
And vice versa, how can I identify the module within my Device (e.g. VMAX) in SRM in order to trigger an alert for a specific event?
Regards
Christian
chrygel
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December 18th, 2015 08:00
Hi Srinjoy,
the Problem is to map the Information within the alert to the selection criteria within the SRM Alert definitions.
Unfortunately i'm unable to cut-and-paste anything into this chat window. Therefore I can't show you the concrete example.
Regards
Christian
RobertoAraujo1
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December 29th, 2015 04:00
JonSharpe
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January 4th, 2016 07:00
Are there any plans for SRM to support sending SNMPv3 traps? It appears that only SNMPv1 traps are supported, which are not allowed in our environment.
dnorton1
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January 4th, 2016 10:00
There is a way to configure sending SNMP v3 traps via the External Process action -- I can provide details if you're interested. We plan to add native SNMP v3 capabilities in a future release, but I can't provide a specific date on this forum (it's public, so we don't discuss roadmaps).
Dan
JonSharpe
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January 5th, 2016 09:00
Dan,
If you could provide the details, that would be great. I am glad to hear that native SNMPv3 traps are on the road map.
Thanks!
dnorton1
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January 5th, 2016 10:00
1. Ability to receive SNMPv3 traps from more than one source.
Part of the trap receiver config file is the ability to add SNMPv3 credentials as such:
Prior to 3.7, you could only have one line, and therefore one set of credentials. Starting with 3.7 you can add an unlimited number of these lines.
2. Ability to send SNMPv3 traps from the Alerting Front/Backend via the ‘External Process’ action.
Setup this action with the command:
/usr/bin/snmptrap -v 3 -c public -a MD5 -A password -x DES -X password -e 0x80001f88807d824e3e0ee0c45500000000 -u myuser localhost:2041 '' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.1 .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.0 s 'device' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.1 s 'devtype' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.2 s 'part' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.3 s 'parttype' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.4 s 'sourceeventtype' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.5 s 'value' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.6 s '1' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.7 s 'msg' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.8 s 'source' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.10 s 'cat' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.11 s 'ip' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.12 s 'domain' .1.3.6.1.4.1.11970.1.1.2.19 s 'v3 trap test 3'
The UI work for this is planned for a future release and will update the SNMP Trap action to include optional v3 parameters.
In 3.7 we added the ability to turn on specific OS utilities (including net-snmp) on the vApp as an optional post-deployment step. To get to the installer, run:
/opt/emc/vmutils/bin/vmutils-manager.sh