Concept diagram

The IBM® Storage Management Pack comprises ten separate management packs, each matching one or more IBM storage systems.

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.
Note: There is one management pack for both FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R (the FlashSystem A9000R management pack), one for both XIV and Spectrum Accelerate (the XIV management pack), and one for DS8700, DS8800, DS8870, and DS8880 (the DS8000 management pack), as shown in the above diagram.
The IBM management packs use different client types and communication channels to connect to their backend storage systems:
  • The management packs for XIV® and Spectrum Accelerate and for FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R use their respective command-line clients and communicate with their storage systems over SSL.
  • The SAN Volume Controller, Storwize® V7000, Storwize V7000 Unified, Storwize V5000 Unified, Storwize V3700, and Storwize V3500 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.