Monitor Adapter Events

Many of the Actor adapter operations trigger the creation of "jobs" in the EMC SMI-S Provider. For example, when using the create-lun operation, a job is started. The create-lun operation returns immediately before the actual completion of the LUN. The administrator needs to check the status of the job to see whether the create-lun operation completed successfully or not.

The purpose of the Monitor adapter is to regularly check the status of the pending jobs and trigger an event upon completion of one of them (or any other status change).

Like the Actor adapter, the Monitor adapter connects to the EMC SMI-S Provider.  The configuration of the Monitor adapter is therefore very similar to the configuration of the Actor adapter for the connection and credentials settings.

All operations of the Actor adapter have an option to force them in "synchronous mode", in which case the operation will wait for the job completion before returning. With the "synchronous" option enabled, there is no need to use the Monitor adapter to know when a job is completed.