LibStorageMgmt

The libStorageMgmt can manage EMC CX/VNX/VMAX via SMI-S plugin (libstoragemgmt-smis-plugin package).

EMC is providing a proxy SMI-S provider for storage array management.

Please contact EMC Support to install and configure a SMI-S provider service on your server for your storage arrays.

Once done, you could use one of these URIs in LibStorageMgmt:

smispy://username@host
smispy+ssl://username@host
# The 'username' is the username used in EMC SMI-S provider.
# The default 'username' is 'admin' and the default password
# is '#1Password'

You can also add “&system=" to filter out unneeded storage arrays like this:

smispy://username@host?system=<system_id>
# The 'system_id' could be found via systems() call or
# 'lsmcli list --type SYSTEMS' command.

For ‘SSL error: certificate verify failed’ error, it means libstoragemgmt failed to verify EMC SMI-S providers’ SSL public keys with system wide PKI/x509. Please contact EMC support to setup the self-signed certification.

If you want to ignore the SSL check error which is not suggested, please add no_ssl_verify=yes in your URI, like this:

smispy+ssl://username@host?no_ssl_verify=yes

The following are the steps used by ourselves on EMC SMI-S provider
installation and configuration.
We are providing this in the favor of saving your time with NO WARRANTY.
Please contact EMC Support instead if are working on production system.

• Download SMI-S provider from support.emc.com

• Execute these commands to install required rpms (if on x86_64)

sudo yum install glibc.i686 libgcc.i686

• Install SMI-S provider (Follow EMC documents if found):

sudo ./se76012_install.sh -install -smi -64bit

• This command will start EMC SMI-S provider if not started:

sudo /opt/emc/ECIM/ECOM/bin/ECOM -d

• Add Storage Array login information to EMC SMI-S provider:

/opt/emc/ECIM/ECOM/bin/TestSmiProvider
# After press alot of enter, type "addsys"
# Follow the instruction of 'addsys'.
# You need to input both SPA and SPB's management IP address
# During our test, 'addsys' will fail if only one IP defined.
# During out test, 'addsys' will fail if using DNS hostname.

• If you want to remove any array from EMC SMI-S provider, but have no idea about the path requested by rmsys. Try command tv.

• By default, the password will expire in 30 days, you can change that rule via https://<smis_server_ip>:5989/ECOMConfig. You can also change the password there if you want it expire every 30 days.

Above steps were tested on:

• RHEL 7.2 x86_64
• SMI-S Provider 4.6.2.9 for SMI-S 1.5 for Linux
  • se76267-Linux-i386-SMI.tar.gz
  • symcli-smi64-7.6.2.1808-67.3.x86_64