An SMI-S provider is a vendor-specific component that is used so that independent management software can manage a vendor device using the Common Information Model (CIM) protocol.
You can collect SMI-S data on certain disk arrays that have in-built SMI-S provider information. Some of the disk array vendors provide the respective SMI-S provider information for the disk arrays. However, install and configure SMI-S providers on such storage devices, which do not have in-built SMI-S provider.
Note: Disk array data collection is done using SMI-S. We recommend you to use SMI-S 1.2 and above to collect data for storage performance attributes.
CA SRM Application Server (AS) communicates with the disk arrays through their respective SMI-S providers. When multiple SMI-S providers are installed on the same machine, only one can use the default port number. Configure the other providers during installation or set up to use an alternate port number.
When you add a disk array whose provider is using an alternate port number to the Application Server or Proxy computer, specify the port number. The default port number for the SMI-S provider for the CA SRM is displayed as 5988 regardless of what operating system hosts the SMI-S provider. However, when this SMI-S provider is running on Linux, the default port number is 15988.
The application host is the computer that controls the disk array. The proxy collector is the computer through which CA SRM performs data collection on the disk array. Typically, the application host and the proxy collector reside on the same computer, but they can reside on two separate computers.
Typically, the application host and proxy collector computers have different requirements, though the requirements depend on the manufacturer of the disk array. Also, some types of disk arrays can require additional setup.
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