NetApp SANtricity Management Pack

The NetApp SANtricity Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 3.0 is infrastructure version 3.00.0002.3000 and contains plug-in version 3.0.0.61. The SANtricity Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM 3.0 provides integrated monitoring of E-Series storage systems and EF-Series flash arrays in the Microsoft SCOM environment.

The SANtricity Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM 3.0 allows monitoring of storage array health in the System Center console. It displays storage array based critical alerts and associated recovery steps. It also displays performance warnings for monitored volumes when configured thresholds are exceeded.

NEW SCOM 3.0 capabilities include:

• Summarized views of the state and health of storage resources through dedicated Dashboards
• The ability to graph various volume performance metrics through Performance Views
• Hierarchical view of all storage and hardware currently monitored by the plug-in through the Diagram View
• The ability to launch the NetApp Storage Array Discovery application for an agent machine through the operations manager

SCOM 3.0 features include:

• Displays critical alerts with detail description of recovery steps
• Integrated performance monitoring of volumes for IOPs, throughput and latency
• Includes discovery tool to discover and add arrays to be monitored
• Includes PowerShell tool/script to export performance data that can be used for deriving guidance for setting performance monitoring threshold levels

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NetApp SANtricity Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 3.0 (3.00.3000.0002)

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SANtricity Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM 3.0

Date Posted: December 10, 2015

All features and fixes in previous release of 3.0 are contained in current version of 3.0.

Contents
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  1. Overview
  2. Supported Storage Arrays
  3. System Requirements
  4. Release Information
  5. Support Information

1. Overview
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 The NetApp SANtricity Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 3.0 is 
 infrastructure version 3.00.3000.0002 and contains plug-in version 3.0.0.61. The SANtricity Management 
 Pack for Microsoft SCOM 3.0 provides integrated monitoring of E-Series  storage systems and EF-Series flash 
 arrays in the Microsoft SCOM environment.  The SANtricity Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM 3.0 allows 
 monitoring of storage array health in the System Center console. It displays storage array based critical 
 alerts and associated recovery steps. It also displays performance warnings for monitored volumes when 
 configured thresholds are exceeded.  

2. Supported Storage Arrays
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3.0. NetApp Storage Arrays - The following storage arrays are supported with this release of the SANtricity 
Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM 3.0.

	E2600
	E2700
	E5400
	E5500
	E5600
	EF540
	EF550
	EF560


2.2 Supported firmware levels - 07.86 is the minimum supported firmware level.  
		
3. System Requirements
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Supported Microsoft System Center� versions

    System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1
    System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

Please refer to Microsoft site for System Requirements for Root Management Server

System Requirements for Agent-Managed Computer (Proxy Server)
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			     |Install			 |Install	      |Install x64 versions of
Operating System 	     |PowerShell v3.0 or greater |.Net Framework v3.5 |NetApp Integration Pack                   
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Windows Server 2012 (x64)    |		X 		 |		X     |		X
Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64) |		X 		 |		X     |		X
windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) |		X 		 |		X     |		X


4. Release Information
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4.1 This release applies only to NetApp SANtricity Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations 
Manager 3.0 (3.00.3000.0002).
     
4.2 New Features - 3.0.0.61:
    
    * Summarized views of the state and health of storage resources through dedicated Dashboards
    * The ability to graph various volume performance metrics through Performance Views
    * Hierarchical view of all storage and hardware currently monitored by the plug-in through the Diagram View
    * The ability to launch the NetApp Storage Array Discovery application for an agent machine through the operations manager

4.3 Issues Addressed:
    N/A

5. Support Information
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5.1. Support may be obtained from:

     http://support.netapp.com

5.2. 24x7 telephone support may be obtained (with a support contract) at:

     1.888.463.8277