HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance and Software - Manual (Page 66)

Discovering Devices and Applications
50 Storage Management Appliance Software User Guide
About Devices
The Storage Management Appliance is capable of identifying particular devices
and applications in your storage area network using one or more discovery
processes. Devices include host computers, Fibre Channel switches, Modular
Data Routers (MDRs) and NAS devices. A storage element is defined as any
storage system with a single controller (or pair of controllers) connected to a
switch port. Storage elements can incorporate a wide range of technologies that
include disk arrays and tape devices.
Many devices can be identified by querying an SNMP agent operating on the
device. Some devices have no SNMP agent and must be identified by querying
the associated management application.
Managing Discovered Devices
Your Storage Management Appliance can have any number of discoveries
running at various times or started manually. The devices identified by all the
IP-based discoveries are called discovered devices.
Using the Devices page ( Figure 32 on page 51), you can manage the following:
■ Discovered Devices—Lists devices found by all IP discoveries. See
“
Discovered Devices ” on page 52 for more information.
■ Command View EVA—Launches the element manager for managing HSV
controller-based RAID arrays.
■ HSG Element Manager—Launches the element manager for managing HSG
controller-based RAID arrays.