Install EMC Navisphere Agent on VMware ESX Server

VMware ESX Server includes SAN management services and tools, like cos-rescan or esxcfg-rescan to scan HBAs and vmkfstools or esxcfg-vmhbadevs for other san related tasks. But EMC provides Navisphere Agent for Linux that can run on ESX and is supported by EMC/VMware.
The Host Agent can :

• Retrieve information from the storage system automatically at startup or when requested by Manager or CLI.
• Send drive mapping information to the attached CLARiiON® storage systems.
• Monitor storage-system events and can notify personnel by email or pager when any designated event occurs.
• Retrieve LUN World Wide Name (WWN) and capacity information from Symmetrix® storage systems.

To install and run the agent , you need:

• Download Navisphere Host Agent / CLI from EMC Powerlink, latest version as of this writing is 6.22
• Extract and run ./linux/ESX_installer.sh to open required ports

# # ./ESX_install.sh naviagentcli
##############################################

ESX_install.sh ver 1.1
The following ports need to be enabled for the software to operate properly

port -> 6389,tcp,in,NaviCLI
port -> 6389,tcp,out,NaviCLI
port -> 6390,tcp,in,NaviCLI
port -> 6391,tcp,in,NaviCLI
port -> 6392,tcp,in,NaviCLI
port -> 443,tcp,out,NaviCLI
port -> 2163,tcp,out,NaviCLI

Do you want to enable ? [yes]

Enabling ports now!

• Install or upgrade the RPM ( in this example I'm upgrading)

# rpm -Uhv naviagentcli-6.22.20.0.94-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
  1:naviagentcli           ########################################### [100%]
Shutting down Naviagent: [  OK  ]

• Start or restart the service:

# service naviagent start
Starting Navisphere agent: [  OK  ]

• go to Navisphere Control Center and update the host and make sure it reflect the same agent version