Concept diagram

The IBM® Storage Management Pack comprises seven separate management packs, each matching an IBM storage system.

Accordingly, you can import a management pack into Microsoft SCOM for each IBM storage system.

The following block diagram illustrates how all management packs are integrated in Microsoft SCOM and connect to the storage systems.

Figure 1. Individual management packs for IBM storage systems
This block diagram describes individual management packs for IBM storage systems.
As shown in the diagram, the IBM management packs use different client types and communication channels to connect to their backend storage systems:
  • The XIV® management pack uses the XIV command-line client and communicates with the XIV system over SSL.
  • The SAN Volume Controller, Storwize® V7000, Storwize V7000 Unified, Storwize V5000 Unified, Storwize V3700, Storwize V3500, and IBM Flex System™ V7000 management packs use their respective command line clients and communicate with their storage systems over SSH.
  • The DS8000® management pack uses a DS8000 client and communicates with the DS8000 storage system using the SMI-S standard Common Information Model (CIM) agent.