Solutions Enabler Monitor option

Question

Hi, in sol enabler 6.4 it refers to a monitor only install option. I assume this is a read only install of sol enabler for just view rights, and not be able to make config changes. I cannot figure out from the install guide how this is achieved, it may be a combination of install componenets and options file settings, is there a doc or something that explains how?

xe2sdc · Answer

If you go in the 'download' section of powerlink you will find different 'installers' for the monitoring and the regular Solution Enabler.

dynamox · Answer

i just installed monitoring kit on a windows box and this is what i see: bin directory only has 25 object compared to 48 object on system with full blown SE installed ..commands such as symconfigure, symmask are not installed. I do see symdev ..i am not sure if it would allow you to make device not_ready. I also see that services such as EMC storapid, EMC storsrvd are not installed.

dynamox · Answer

i just checked output of symdev -help on full blown SE install and Monitoring kit only ...same options. That would be pain to maintain two different application that pretty much do the same thing, i guess that's why symacl is there.

xe2sdc · Answer

AFAIK good old plain C offers something like; here we do only the monitoring stuff ..#IFDEF FULL_SE; here we enable all the hot stuff#ENDIF

xe2sdc · Answer

I've installed the 'monitoring only' version once .. And it was my fault .. since we were installing a GeoSpan cluster ... I've never played a lot with the monitoring only version .. but AFAIK it is COMPILED from source to allow only the monitoring of the storage and not the management. That's why you don't have all the daemons and all the commands .. I think that even the commands will be different ... if you compare the 'symdev' command from the monitoring version with the regular version you'll find that the size (and the available options) are different.

daskew1 · Answer

Hi. have tried a few commands and yes, it does seem to prevent changes being made. i can still update, modify device groups , but nothing else by the looks of things. It would be nice to have a list of commands that are available in monitor only without having to randomly run the exe's. There are also some useful commands that are not installed, such as symbcv etc which will prove problematic for hosts using timefinder etc.

xe2sdc · Answer

All the binaries are in c:\program files\emc\symcli\bin .. or in /usr/symcli/bin .. List the content of the directory and you'll have the full listing of available commands ...

xe2sdc · Answer

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Solutions Enabler Monitor option