Adding IBM Storage Protect Plus to the Operations Center

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When you add an IBM Storage® Protect Plus server to the Operations Center, you establish a connection between the server and the Operations Center. After this connection is established, you can use the Operations Center to monitor the IBM Storage Protect Plus environment.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have the URL for the Operations Center and user credentials to log on.

Procedure

To add an IBM Storage Protect Plus server to the Operations Center, complete the following steps:

On the Operations Center menu bar, click Overviews > Protect Plus and take one of the following actions to open the Add Server wizard:

Current configuration	Action
No IBM Storage Protect Plus servers are connected to the Operations Center.	A message indicates that no IBM Storage Protect Plus servers are configured. Click +Add Server.
One or more IBM Storage Protect Plus servers are connected to the Operations Center.	The IBM Storage Protect Plus dashboard is displayed. From the list of servers on the monitoring dashboard, select +Add Server.

To add the IBM Storage Protect Plus server, follow the directions in the wizard.
On the Authorization page of the wizard, you are prompted to specify user credentials to access and monitor the IBM Storage Protect Plus server. If you have an IBM Storage Protect Plus account whose credentials match the Operations Center credentials, you can use that account. If you don't have matching credentials, you must create an account.

Use Operations Center credentials

Select this option to use an existing IBM Storage Protect Plus user account that matches the user name and password of the administrator account that you used to log on to the Operations Center.

Create a monitoring user account

Select this option to have the wizard create an IBM Storage Protect Plus user account.

To enable the Operations Center to access IBM Storage Protect Plus and create the account, provide credentials for an IBM Storage Protect Plus user account that is assigned to the SYSADMIN role. Enter the credentials in the User name and Password fields as shown in the following figure.
Figure 1. Entering IBM Storage Protect Plus credentials

The credentials that are entered here are not saved. The Operations Center logs on to the IBM Storage Protect Plus server by using these account credentials and creates the user account OC_MONITOR_number, where number is a random number for identification. The Operations Center will connect to the IBM Storage Protect Plus environment by using the new account.
Click Add Server.
If the operation is successful, results are displayed as shown in the following figure:
Figure 2. IBM Storage Protect Plus added successfully