Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent 3.0.2 Overview
Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent provides a standards based storage management interface that can be used to discover, monitor and manage NetApp storage systems. The specifications for SMI-S are developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). NetApp's Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent has been certified by SNIA's Conformance Testing Program (CTP) suite for compliance with SNIA's SMI-S v1.2 specification.
Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent 3.0.2 is an upgrade to Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent 3.0.1 and include update for The tunnel subcommand supports XML inputs.This release will continue to support the following tasks supported in Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent 3.0.1:
- Adding a storage system to manage and monitor devices
- Deleting a storage system
- Monitoring LUNs (logical unit numbers), volumes, and disks of storage systems
- Provisioning LUNs and volumes for storage systems
- Executing Data ONTAP APIs
You can install Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent (SMI-S Agent) on a Windows® or a Linux® host.
The functionality supported by NetApp's Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent includes features supported via standard profiles as well as NetApp-specific extensions.
Standard profiles support :
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Fibre Channel SAN functionality, including LUN creation, mapping and masking, and reporting
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NAS functionality, including resource discovery (aggregates, volumes, RAID groups, etc.) and system health monitoring
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iSCSI SAN functionality, including LUN creation and export, and session and connection creation
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Support for FAS series,V series, N series and NearStore R200 storage systems
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Manage and Monitor the File Exports and File Systems
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Manage and Monitor File System quotas
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Alert indications -Support for all the traps generated by Data ONTAP
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Storage Synchronized Association to provide information about Snapshot/SnapMirror information
NetApp-specific extensions support :
Software Download Information
The SMI-S agent is available free-of-charge through the NOW site. To access the SMI-S agent, partners and customers need to sign-up for it. The steps for sign-up and download of SMI-S Agent is available @ http://www.netapp.com/us/company/leadership/industry-standards/smi-s-agent.html .
