How to Monitor IBM DS RAID Storage Using eG Enterprise?

eG Enterprise  monitors the IBM DS RAID Storage using an eG external agent  on any remote host in the environment. The eG agent invokes the SMCli utility provided by IBM to monitor the storage servers.

Pre-requisites for Monitoring the IBM DS RAID Storage

To enable the eG agent to use SMCli utility, make sure that the eG agent is installed on the host on which the SMCli utility is installed. Then, configure all the tests with the full path to the SMCli utility.

Once the requirements discussed in the above-mentioned sections are fulfilled, proceed to monitor the IBM DS RAID Storage using eG Enterprise. There are two broad steps in monitoring the IBM DS RAID Storage: