CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide

Lab Exercise 11: Create an Event Monitor Template

Purpose:

To create a Template for use with Event Monitor, using EMC
Unisphere

Tasks:
Each student will perform the following activities:
Determine which Templates are installed on a storage
system
Create a new Event Monitor Template
Modify an existing Event Monitor Template
Configure Event Monitor Template options
Assign a Template to a storage system
Configure a host to monitor a storage system


References:
CLARiiON Host Integration and Management Student Guide


CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide

Lab Exercise 11
Part 1: Configuring a Centralized Monitor using the
Configuration Wizard

Step Action
1 Browse over the Monitoring menu and select Event Notification

From the Configure Event Notification window select Configure Centralized Monitor

2 From the Configure Centralized Monitor window, Right-click on the Portal icon and
select Add Portal

From the Add Portal page, select your primary storage array from the Available Systems
and move it to the Selected Systems window. Click OK

3 The array should appear in the Configure Centralized Monitor window.

Right-click on the array and select Add Centralized Event Monitor

For the purposes of this lab, type in the IP address of your primary Windows host.

Note: For centralized monitoring, the monitoring agent must be a host agent and be
connected to the portal storage system, however it cannot be performing data I/O to the
storage system.

The host will be added to the Configure Centralized Monitor window under the portal.
Click OK

4 Select the Centralized Monitor tab under the Event Notification for CLARiiON Storage
Systems window and verify the host appears.

Note; This may take a minute or so, if it doesnt appear, logout of the browser and launch it
again.

5 Click on the Configure tab and select Create Template

When the Template Properties window appears, ensure the General radio button is
selected (default) and configure the following parameters;

Check the Warning, Error and Critical checkboxes

Check all the boxes for Event Categories
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Check the Log to System Log checkbox

Ensure that the Combine Events for Storage System checkbox is unchecked.

Type in a name for the Template for example Group <x>_Template (can only use
alphanumeric characters and underscore), Click OK

6 Click the Add Response button.

Name the new response CHiiMSV , and click OK.

7 Click on the CHiiMSV tab at the top right of Template Properties. The CHiiMSV tab was
created when you created a new response.
8 In the Program to Execute text entry area type:

For W2K3: c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
or
For W2K: c:\winnt\system32\notepad.exe

9 In the Program Parameters text entry area type: c:\newfile.txt

10 Click on the Default Message tab box.

11 Right-click the Navisphere Agent service on your Windows FC host and select Properties.
Note The path to Navisphere Agent is as follows:

My Computer >Manage >Services and Applications >Services >Navisphere Agent, click
the Log On tab.

Verify that the Allow service to interact with desktop checkbox is selected.
Click OK.

12 Return to your template and right-click

Select Properties.

Click on the CHiiMSV tab.

Click on the Test button.

Select your Windows FC host as the host for the test, click OK.

Click OK at the completion message and close the window


Note If you are running through Terminal Services, Notepad will not be visible on the desktop.
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View the running processes it will appear there.
13 Right-click your Centralized Monitor Windows FC host.

Open the View Response Log, and View Message File. They should all show that a test
event was generated.

Look for your m###s in the Message File Selection. Highlight one m###at a time and
Click OK to view the message.

Verify you have the same 4 fields as seen in the example in Step 14

14 Apply the Template to your primary storage system in the following manner:

Click on the Centralized Monitor tab, then Right-click on the host and click on Select
Global Template

Select the template you just created. Click OK

Click on the Centralized Monitor server, the template should appear under the Templates
in Use tab. In the Details window

Select the Monitor Systems tab and select your primary storage system.

Once selected, verify it appears under the Monitored Systems tab in the Details window.

End of Exercise 11

CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide

Lab Exercise 12: Examining and Displaying Alerts

Purpose:

Examine and displaying alerts on a CLARiiON

Tasks:
Each student will perform the following activities:

Examine the Alerts window
Create a filter for alerts
Modify an existing Event Monitor Template

References:
CLARiiON Host Integration and Management Student Guide



CLARiiON Host Integration and Management with SnapView Lab Guide

Lab Exercise 12
Part 1: Examine CLARiiON Alerts window


Step Action
1 From the Dashboard, Alerts can be viewed by clicking the Alerts menu item or by
clicking on the Alerts tab at the bottom left of the window.

2 Details of the Alert can be viewed by right clicking on the Alert and selecting Details
or by clicking on the Details tab at the bottom of the window.

Click on various alerts and view the details.

Can any of the alerts be deleted?

3 To Export a file, mouse over the icons located on the upper right side of the window
until you see the Export

Select Export and save the file to the P drive
Note the default directory where the file will be exported.

Verify that the file was created and can be viewed.

4 Locate the Filter icon, examine the filter options from the menu items using the
dropdowns.

Select a different option such as error and apply the changes. Do the same for each option
and note the changes.

Does the window display alerts for each severity category?

Click Reset from the Tools icon and note the changes.
Log out and login to the array.


Did the values remain the same?

End of Exercise 12


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