Symantec 5.1 manual What’s new in CommandCentral Storage, Management and discovery

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What’s new in CommandCentral Storage 5.1

CommandCentral Storage 5.1 contains and builds upon CommandCentral Storage 5.0 functionality, providing several new features.

Management and discovery

CommandCentral Storage 5.1 introduces the following management and discovery features.

Enhanced agentless discovery of storage resources

If you do not install the CommandCentral managed host on hosts in your storage network, the CommandCentral Management Server can discover those hosts and their connections to storage resources through agentless discovery.

The process involves creating a user-created host in order to associate the unidentified adapter (HBA) discovered through switch discovery to the host to which it connects. In previous versions of CommandCentral, you could do this one host at a time. Now, CommandCentral 5.1 provides you with the ability to create multiple hosts at once and to automate the process by creating rules and importing information from a CSV file.

For more information about this feature, see the CommandCentral Storage User’s Guide.

Detection of configuration related changes to storage arrays

In CommandCentral Storage 5.0 MP1, explorers initiate discovery of devices based on the explorer’s polling interval. The polling interval is the amount of time that the explorer waits to initiate discovery of the device. For example, the polling interval might be 180 minutes.

In CommandCentral Storage 5.1, explorers continue to initiate discovery of devices based on the explorer’s polling interval; however, for certain array explorers, you can also enable change detection. When you enable change detection, explorers listen to SNMP traps or frequently poll storage arrays—for example, every 15 minutes—in order to detect configuration related changes to that array—for example, masking changes. When the explorer detects configuration related changes to the storage array, the explorer initiates a full discovery of the array.

For example, if you enable change detection for EMC CLARiiON storage arrays, by default, the explorer listens for SNMP traps from CLARiiON storage arrays. When the explorer detects changes, it initiates discovery of the array. Because the explorer discovers the changes in near real-time, CommandCentral Storage can provide you with more up-to-date information about the storage array. In contrast, if you do not enable change detection, discovery occurs only when the