Device Manager MDM infrastructure and environment mdm associations

Device Manager has a dual role as a component of Multiple Device Manager (MDM) and as part of the infrastructure of IBM Director. Device Manager provides you with access to single-device, multiple-device, and cross-device configuration functionality.

You can use Device Manager to perform the following tasks:

Device Manager provides the following key functions:

SMI-S based storage subsystem discovery

Device Manager uses the Service Location Protocol (SLP) to discover supported, SMI-S based storage subsystems on the SAN. Device Manager creates managed objects (MO) to represent these discovered devices. The managed objects are displayed as individual icons in the Group Contents pane of the IBM Director Console. The Groups pane displays one group that contains all discovered storage devices.

Inventory collection

Additional information about the discovered storage device managed objects is stored in the IBM Director inventory database. This inventory information is maintained for each storage device managed object.

Health monitoring

Health monitoring is provided to the storage system managed objects by recording hardware status changes for the discovered storage devices in the appropriate managed objects.

Association capability

Device Manager provides association capability between the managed objects representing the storage devices that enables you to view the interconnection relationships.

Event management

A configuration database saves all relevant configuration information for the supported storage devices, such as RAID arrays, configured logical unit numbers (LUNs), LUN masking, and mapping data.

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