# SMI-S

The Data ONTAP SMI-S agent provides a standards-based storage management interface to discover, monitor, and manage NetApp storage systems. The specifications for SMI-S are developed by the standards organizations SNIA and DMTF.

The SMI-S agent is implemented as a proxy-based management solution. You install the agent on an external server (which is not embedded within Data ONTAP). Currently, the supported platforms for SMI-S agent installation are Windows and Linux (Red Hat and SUSE) based hosts.

The following illustration shows how the management applications interact with the NetApp storage system through the SMI-S agent interface.

NetApp SMI-S agent supports every platform that runs Data ONTAP. The functionality provided by the SMI-S agent is as follows:

- Standard profiles

- Fibre Channel SAN functionality, including LUN creation, mapping and masking, and reporting

- iSCSI SAN functionality, including LUN creation and export, and session and connection creation

- NAS functionality, including resource discovery (aggregates, volumes, RAID groups, and so on)

- System health monitoring

- NetApp-specific extensions

- Capacity utilization (multiprotocol storage system)

- Data ONTAP API tunneling

### Download information:

SMI-S agent is available free of charge to the partners and customers on NOW NetApp on the Web. To access the SMI-S agent, you must sign-up for it. The steps for sign up and download of the SMI-S agent is described at SMI-S agent access steps.

For more information and queries about the SMI-S agent, go to NetApp Technology Network.