Required Roles and Permissions for Hardware and Storage Monitoring

This articles outlines the roles or permissions required to monitor Dell EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NetApp, Pure, and RedHat systems.

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The KMs and ETLs developed by Sentry Software leverage the instrumentation layer provided by the manufacturers to collect hardware and storage information. Depending on the platform to be monitored, specific roles and permissions may be required for the user account used to monitor the systems. Refer to the table below to know the roles and permissions required for the most common manufacturers and systems:

Model Example Protocol Default Port Minimum Role Required Sentry Software's Products Additional Notes
(RedHat) Ceph REST 7000(HTTP) or 8443(HTTPS) Read Only
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (Ceph Storage Systems pattern)
Run ceph mgr services to retrieve the exact protocol/port that has been configured, for example: { "dashboard": "https://ceph-storage2.internal.sentrysoftware.net:8443/" }
Dell EMC SC Series/Compellent SC9000 REST 3033(HTTPS) Reporter
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
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Dell EMC SC Series/Compellent SC9000 WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Administrator
  • BMC Discovery (Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager pattern)
Dell EMC Isilon - REST 8080(HTTPS) Audit Admin
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (EMC Isilon REST pattern)
KB1250
Dell EMC PowerStore 1000T REST 443(HTTPS) Operator
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery
Dell EMC Unity 300F WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Operator
  • Hardware Sentry KM
Dell EMC Unity 300F REST 443(HTTPS) Operator
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
Dell EMC Symmetrix/VNX VMAX250F WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Monitor
  • EMC Disk Arrays KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • EMC Disk Arrays KM
  • BMC Discovery (EMC Symmetrix, CLARRiiON and VNX pattern)
KB1052
Dell EMC Symmetrix/PowerMax (incl. V4) VMAX250F REST 8443(HTTPS) Monitor
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
Dell EMC VNX VNX5300 WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Monitor
  • EMC Disk Arrays KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • EMC SMI-S Agent ETL
  • BMC Discovery (EMC Symmetrix, CLARRiiON and VNX pattern)
KB1205
Dell EMC ScaleIO - REST 443(HTTPS) Monitor
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (Dell EMC ScaleIO/VxFlex/PowerFlex pattern)
Account must be created via SSH on the Metadata Manager, e.g. scli --set_password --username user --mdm_ip 10.0.10.110
Dell EMC Xtremio - REST 443(HTTPS) Read Only
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (Dell EMC Xtremio pattern)
Fujitsu Eternus AF/DX Series
  • AF S3
  • DX S5
  • DX8100 S4
  • DX8900 S4
REST 5665(HTTPS) Monitor
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
Hitachi G series G200 WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Storage Administrator (View Only)
  • Hitachi Disk Arrays KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Hitachi Device Manager ETL
  • BMC Discovery (XtremIO Rest pattern)
Hitachi G series G200/G350 REST 23451(HTTPS) Storage Administrator (View Only)
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
KB1181
HP MSA P2000 G3 MSA P2000 G3 WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Manage
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • BMC Discovery (HP MSA pattern)
SMI-S access is required. By default, only the "manage" role has SMI-S access.
HP 3PAR 7200 WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Browse
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • HP 3PAR KM
  • HP 3PAR ETL
  • BMC Discovery (HP 3PAR pattern)
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Huawei OceanStor/OceanStor Dorado i5500 REST 8088(HTTPS) Read Only
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
IBM V7000 Unified 2076-112 WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Monitor
  • IBM SVC-Storwize KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • IBM SVC-Storwize ETL
  • BMC Discovery (IBM Storwize pattern)
IBM SVC 2145-CF8 WBEM 5989(HTTPS) Monitor
  • IBM SVC-Storwize KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • IBM SVC-Storwize ETL
  • BMC Discovery (IBM Storwize pattern)
KB1280
IBM XiV - Read Only
  • IBM XiV KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • IBM XiV ETL
  • BMC Discovery (IBM XiV pattern)
IBM HMC DS89xxF REST 8452(HTTPS) Monitor
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • IBM DS8000 Storage Systems (REST) pattern
IBM HMC DS8882F WBEM 6989(HTTPS) Monitor
  • IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (IBM DS68 pattern)
NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager FAS2650 REST 443(HTTPS) Operator
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (NetApp Storage Active IQ Unified Manager pattern)
NetApp E-Series netapp-e2824 REST 8443(HTTPS) Monitor
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (NetApp E-Series pattern)
NetApp ONTAP FAS2650 REST 443(HTTPS) Read Only
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (NetApp Storage (REST API) pattern)
NetApp StorageGRID REST 443(HTTPS) Read Only group with Metrics Query as permission
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (NetApp StorageGRID (REST) pattern)
Pure FlashArray/M10 R2 REST 443(HTTPS) Read Only
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Hardware Sentry KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL
  • BMC Discovery (Pure Storage pattern)
KB1288
ScalityRING REST 443(HTTPS) Admin
  • Storage Analyzer KM
  • Storage All-in-One ETL