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OpStor is a heterogeneous storage infrastructure monitoring solution that helps enterprises to monitor their storage resources.
  • Multi-vendor storage infrastructure management
  • Pro-active Fault and Performance monitoring
  • Visualize SAN availability and health
  • Detect problems with utilization and availability of storage devices.
 
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"OpStor lets us monitor our entire storage environment, Servers, HBA's, Switches, and the SAN."- Bryan Dearlove, - Information Guelph General Hospital» More Success Stories
 

Monitoring EMC Centera Storage System using OpStor

OpStor provides monitoring and management of EMC Centera Storage Systems

 

Features supported
Inventory Details Logical Details Monitors Report Details
  • Centera Clusters
  • Centera Nodes (Access & storage)
  • Centera Internal Switches
  • CenteraClusterPools
  • CenteraProfiles
  • Centera HeartBeat
  • Cluster status
  • Node status
  • Free space of Clusters / Nodes
  • Availability reports for Cluster

Prerequisites for Monitoring EMC Centera
  • OpStor uses CLI interface to monitor EMC Centera
  • Ensure that CenteraCLI software is installed in the server in which OpStor is installed (By default this is C:\Program Files\EMC\Centera\2_4\SystemOperator\lib )
  • Copy the following jars to {Opstor Install Dir/classes/ directory .
    • C:\Program Files\EMC\Centera\2_4\SystemOperator\lib\CenteraViewer.jar
    • C:\Program Files\EMC\Centera\2_4\SystemOperator\_jvm\lib\jsse.jar
  • Ensure that OpStor is restarted (shutdown & started) after copying this jars.

Steps to add the EMC Centera in OpStor
  • Navigate to Admin Tab --> Manage Storage Devices link in OpStor client
  • Provide IP Address of Centera array
  • Choose the Device Type as 'RAID'
  • Choose the Vendor as 'EMC'
  • Choose the Model as 'Centera'
  • Provide the administrator Username and Password 
  • If needed, change the Timeout value (default is 5 seconds)
  • Click on Add Device

Note : If the Ping facility is disabled for the device, then please uncheck 'Ping the given IP' field.
Note : In case of non discovery of the device, please follow the troubleshooting tips displayed in the webclient and try re-adding the device.

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