Identify the array objects to be discovered, and their representation in Veritas Operations Manager. For example, physical devices, logical devices, physical to logical device mapping, RAID groups, and thin pools.

See Array objects discovered by Storage Insight plug-in.

Identify the array vendor CLI that can be used to discover the array objects.

Identify a mechanism to invoke the vendor CLI. The vendor CLI can be directly invoked from the discovery host where it is installed, or you may need to log on to the array. For example, use Secure Shell (SSH) to invoke the CLI.

Define the mechanism to generate globally unique identifiers for the objects using the data that is provided by the array vendor CLI.

Create discovery script. The discovery script invokes the vendor CLI to discover the array and its objects. When the discovery script is ready, you can create Storage Insight plug-in using Storage Insight SDK Add-on console. Launch Storage Insight SDK Add-on console, and select the Create SI plug-in option.

See About discovery script.

Along with the discovery script, you can also upload additional helper scripts.

See About additional scripts.

Create formulas in terms of SCSI pages and bytes to construct the unique identifier for the array, and logical disks (LUNs).

From the host, launch the following URL:

https://SDK-hostname:5634/admin/htdocs/sisdk.html

Where, SDK-hostname is the host where you have installed Storage Insight SDK Add-on.

Create Storage Insight plug-in: To create Storage Insight plug-in, select the Create SI plug-in option on Storage Insight SDK Add-on panel. When you create the Storage Insight plug-in, you need to upload the discovery script, and specify any runtime arguments required by the discovery script.

You also need to specify the characteristics of the array that you want to discover, and how the characteristics are represented in Veritas Operations Manager. The specified discovery script implements the discovery of the selected characteristics.

To support end-to-end correlation of storage discovered by the agent hosts with the storage discovered out of band by Storage Insight plug-in, you also need to provide specific formulas to be used to construct the identifiers for arrays and logical disk objects. The Storage Insight plug-in is deployed as Veritas Operations Manager add-on.

See Creating a Storage Insight plug-in.

See About the discovery script arguments.

See Command example.

See Enclosure objects discovery order.

See About the enclosure discovery command output.

See About device identifiers.

Test the Storage Insight plug-in.

See Testing a Storage Insight plug-in.

Install Storage Insight plug-in. The plug-in can be installed only on Veritas Operations Manager Management Server. You can navigate to Deployment Management view of Veritas Operations Manager console, upload, and install the plug-in.

Ensure that Storage Insight Add-on is already installed on Veritas Operations Manager Management Server before you upload the Storage Insight plug-in. The minimum required version of Storage Insight Add-on is 5.0.

After the Storage Insight plug-in is installed successfully, you can discover the array using Storage Insight Add-on console. The array vendor, product, and discovery mechanism are listed on the Device Configuration wizard of Storage Insight Add-on.