Description

This connector discovers the HBAs of a server. It relies on the WBEM technology and supports SMI-S compliant HBAs only.

This connector is superseded by:

• EmulexHbacmd^[2]
• QlogicSCLI^[3]
• HPUXHBA^[4]
• WBEMGenHBA^[5]

aix^[6] hardware^[7] hp-ux^[8] linux^[9] network^[10] solaris^[11] storage^[12] windows^[13]

Target

Typical platforms: Any system with Emulex Any system with QLogic

Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX, HP Tru64, HP OpenVMS, Oracle Solaris, Out-Of-Band

Prerequisites

Leverages: SMI-S Agent provided by the HBA vendor

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t win -c +SMISHBA --wbem -u USER

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: win
        connectors: [ +SMISHBA ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wbem:
            protocol: https
            port: 5989
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The SMI-S Compliant HBAs connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: Automatic
  • WQL Query: SELECT PortType FROM CIM_FCPort
  • Result contains: \(0\)\|\(1\)\|\(10\)\|\(11\)\|\(12\); (regex)
• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: Automatic
  • WQL Query: SELECT CreationClassName FROM CIM_FCPort
  • Result contains: \([Hh][Bb][Aa]\)\|\([Qq][Ll]ogic\)\|\(IBM_FCPort\)\|\(HPUX_FCPort\)\|\(ELX\) (regex)

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