HP Storage Management Pack 3.0.1 using P2000 SAN.

Today was the first time of using the HP Storage Management Pack 3.0.1
The plan was to get the Management Pack to monitor a HP P2000 SAN that was used for hosting a Hyper-V Cluster.

Having gone through the Management Pack guide and set all the pre-requisites, the HP Storage Management Pack User Configuration Tool resulted in the following when adding the storage device :-

No matter what username and password was entered, red exclamation marks were present, and when hovering over them, this message was shown

The problem was that the SAN was installed with SMI-S set to encrypted, and there is no option in the configuration tool to specify to use encryption.

On the SAN configuration, the following was set

Under Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), change the option to Unencrypted. Alternatively using the CLI interface of the SAN run

set protocols smis disabled

then

set protocols usmis enabled

Once the remainder of the management pack guide was completed the magic appeared in the Operations Manager Console :-

Also the P2000 now has a diagram view showing comprehensive coverage of the individual components.

Links

HP Storage Management Pack 3.0.1