HWNPM4087W Missing or invalid association between SMI-S provider SMI-S provider URL and device device name. The configured SMI-S provider is inoperative, or may no longer be managing the specified device.

Explanation

The IBM Spectrum Control database no longer carries the association between the indicated SMI-S provider and device. This could be because a previous IBM Spectrum Control discovery job detected that the device was removed from the SMI-S provider configuration, or it could be because the SMI-S provider was not operational at the time of the last IBM Spectrum Control discovery job, causing the SMI-S provider-to-device association to be deleted from the IBM Spectrum Control database.

Action

There are several common causes for this problem:

  1. If the device was moved to a different SMI-S provider, ensure that the most recent IBM Spectrum Control SMI-S provider discovery job detected the new SMI-S provider and its association to the device. If necessary, run a new SMI-S provider discovery job to detect this association. Then manually stop and restart the IBM Spectrum Control performance monitor for the device, to force the use of the new SMI-S provider by the monitor.
  2. If the device is intended to still be managed by the indicated SMI-S provider, check the SMI-S provider configuration. If the device was accidentally removed from the configuration, add it back, or if the SMI-S provider is not currently operational, restart the SMI-S provider. Then run a new IBM Spectrum Control SMI-S provider discovery job to allow IBM Spectrum Control to rediscover the SMI-S provider-to-device association. The existing IBM Spectrum Control performance monitor for the device should start working again automatically, once the SMI-S provider-to-device association is added back to the IBM Spectrum Control database by the discovery job.