EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Portal - Documentation for BMC Discovery content reference
Robert Clark
Published Apr 07, 2026
EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) provides a complete software-defined cloud storage platform that supports the storage, manipulation, and analysis of unstructured data on a massive scale on commodity hardware.
Management users can access the ECS UI, which is referred to as the ECS Portal, to perform administration tasks. Management users include the System Administrator, Namespace Administrator, and System Monitor roles. Management tasks that can be performed in the ECS Portal can also be performed by using the ECS Management REST API.
Product Component | OS Type | Versioning | Pattern Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Portal | Unix | RestfulGet (/vdc/nodes.json) | Instance-based |
SSH and REST API credentials are valid for the EMC ECS storage device.
- SSH credentials should be entered as Unix.
2. REST API credentials should be entered as EMC ECS Web API. The credentials are Used to retrieve the version of the product.
The pattern discovers EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Portal deployed on the UNIX platform only.
Software Instance Triggers
Pattern | Trigger Node | Attribute | Condition | Argument |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMC_ECSPortal | DiscoveredProcess | cmd | matches | unix_cmd "ecsportalsvc" |
| and | ||||
| args | matches | regex "ecs" | ||
Simple Identification Mappings
The trigger process is given a simple identification mapping:
Name | Command | Arguments |
|---|---|---|
"EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Portal Service" | unix_cmd "ecsportalsvc" | regex "ecs" |
The EMC_ECSPortal pattern attempts to obtain the version via the restful GET method by running the following restfulGet request:
GET '/vdc/nodes.json'
Pattern Trigger
EMC_ECSPortal pattern
Triggers on "ecsportalsvc" process (a docker child process) with arguments matching regex "ecs".
SI Depth
EMC_ECSPortal pattern
Creates an instance-based Software Instance with the key based on SI type, and the host key.
Software Instance Modeling
Software Instance details of the EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Portal generated by this pattern:
