Tutorial: Reviewing and updating your agentless servers

In this tutorial, you review the agentless servers that are created automatically by IBM Spectrum® Control, and update your agentless servers.

Every month, you create a chargeback report for the physical servers in your storage environment. The report shows how much capacity is used by physical servers, and the cost of that capacity.

IBM Spectrum Control creates and updates agentless servers automatically after storage systems and hypervisors are probed. The agentless server information is used to create an accurate model of your storage environment, which is then used by the chargeback report to show the consumption of storage by server. You want to review your agentless servers to make sure that they accurately represent your storage environment.

  1. Go to Servers > Servers.
  2. Review the servers that have Agentless in the Condition column.
    You notice that IBM Spectrum Control identified 4 host connections and created an agentless server for each host connection. However, in your environment, these 4 host connections are on one server. You need to combine the 4 agentless servers into a server.
  3. Select the four agentless servers, right-click, and then click Merge Servers.

    Screen capture of Servers list page with popup menu displayed
  4. Type a name for the new server, then click Merge.
  5. Review the agentless servers again.
    You notice that IBM Spectrum Control created an agentless server from a group of host connections that appear to be related. However, in your environment, these host connections are actually individual servers. You need to separate the agentless server into individual servers.
  6. Select the agentless server, right-click, and then click Separate Server.

    Screen capture of Servers list page with popup menu displayed
  7. If any WWPNs on the server are used by more than one host connection, an error message is displayed. The message displays the WWPNs that are used by more than one host connection. Review the WWPNs and make sure that each WWPN is used by only one host connection. Then, try to separate the server again.
  8. On the Separate Servers dialog, click Apply.
    On the resource list page for servers, an agentless server is created for each of the servers.