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 user account can be defined in the Monitor user group (applicable to IBM Flex System™ V7000, SAN Volume Controller, Storwize® V3500, Storwize V3700, Storwize V7000, and DS8000®), or in the Read Only category (applicable to XIV®).

The following figure shows where the user groups are defined in the management GUI of XIV, SAN Volume Controller, Storwize V3500, Storwize V3700, Storwize V7000, Flex System V7000, and DS8000.

This image shows where user groups are defined in the different storage system management GUIs. — Figure 1. Storage system user group definitions