Before you proceed

Before you proceed to the installation and usage of the IBM® Storage Management Pack, you need to obtain the required user privileges for accessing the specific IBM storage systems that you intend to monitor from Microsoft SCOM.

Use your IBM storage system management GUI (or contact your storage administrator) to define your user account on the storage system in the appropriate user permission group.

Unless specified otherwise in the release notes of the IBM Storage Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM, your storage system user account should be defined in:
  • Monitor user group – applicable to IBM Flex System® V7000, SAN Volume Controller, Storwize® V3500, Storwize V3700, Storwize V5000, Storwize V7000, Storwize V7000 Unified, and DS8000®.
  • Read Only category – applicable to XIV® and IBM Spectrum Accelerate.