Configuring Ops Center API Configuration Manager connections

Ops Center Automator User Guide

Version

10.8.x

File Size

3.6 MB

Audience

anonymous

Part Number

MK-99AUT001-14

You must create a connection setting for the server running the Ops Center API Configuration Manager.

This connection enables Ops Center Automator to run services on storage systems registered with the Ops Center API Configuration Manager. Setting up connections requires the Admin role.

Before you can use Data Mobility services, you must set up your environment so that the Ops Center API Configuration Manager manages all of your storage systems. You must also register remote storage system information across all your storage systems. This means that you must register information about remote storage systems with the Ops Center API Configuration Manager server of the local storage system and information about the local storage system with the Ops Center API Configuration Manager server of the remote storage systems. For detailed information on these needs and registering your storage systems with a Ops Center API Configuration Manager, see the Hitachi Ops Center API Configuration Manager REST API Reference Guide.

When creating Ops Center API Configuration Manager server connections, you must set up credentials as follows:

For Data Mobility services, create one connection that uses the same credentials for each storage system managed by the Ops Center API Configuration Manager. In addition to using the same credentials to access all storage systems, ensure that these credentials are assigned the following roles:
- Security Administrator (View and Modify)
- Storage Administrator (Provisioning)
- Storage Administrator (Remote Copy)
For the JavaScript Plug-in for Configuration Manager REST API and built-in Configuration Manager REST methods:
- When all storage systems managed by a Ops Center API Configuration Manager use the same credentials, create one connection. For example, when your environment uses a central repository, such as Active Directory, to manage credentials.
- When each storage system managed by an Ops Center API Configuration Manager uses different credentials, create a connection for each set of storage system credentials.

On the Administration tab, click Connection Settings > Web Service Connections.
Click Add or Edit and enter the following information:
- Category: Select ConfigurationManager.
- Name: Enter a name for the Ops Center API Configuration Manager instance.
- IP Address/Host Name: Enter the host name or IP Address of the Ops Center API Configuration Manager server.
- Protocol: Select http (default) or https.
- Port
- User ID An account with operation privileges on the storage system.
- Password An account with operation privileges on the storage system.
To use a proxy server, select the check box and enter the following information:
- IP Address/Host Name
- Port
- Authentication
- Authentication Type
- User ID
- Password
Enter assigned infrastructure groups.
Click OK.

If you are using Data Mobility services, you must first ensure that all Virtual Storage Machines (VSMs) across sites use the same resource group name so that the services can recognize them. When creating a resource group name, you must adhere to the following rules:

Storage System Model(Virtual Serial Number),Storage System Model@Virtual Serial Number

For example, if the resource group consists of VSP G800 storage systems with a virtual serial number of 400000, create a resource group with the following name:

VSP G800(400000), VSP G800@400000

Then you must update the Virtual Storage Machine Names shared property setting for recognizing VSMs when using Data Mobility services. For detailed information, see Modifying shared service properties for data mobility services.