User manual QUANTUM ADIC MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 4.4 REV 03-2007

[. . . ] User's Guide ADIC Management ConsoleTM 4. 4 Scalar i2000 ADIC Management Console User's Guide, 6-00064-08, March 2007, Made in USA. Quantum Corporation provides this publication "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Quantum Corporation may revise this publication from time to time without notice. COPYRIGHT STATEMENT Copyright 2007 by Quantum Corporation. [. . . ] To make them permanent, use Modify Discovery Configuration to add their IP addresses to the discovery configuration string. Note Configuring the SNMP Community Strings SNMP community strings are a part of the software agent's messaging functionality that serve to group network devices into logical collections for management purposes. The community strings on the server must match those on the appliance(s) you wish to manage. Do not edit the SNMP Community Strings values without consulting your customer service representative. CAUTION 56 Performing Administrative Tasks Two configurable strings are defined: · · Read allows AMC to get information from appliances with matching Read community strings. Write allows AMC to manipulate the settings of appliances with matching Write community strings. The appliance can maintain 32 Read and 32 Write community strings. Incorrect adjustment of the SNMP Community Strings can prevent the AMC from managing your system. CAUTION 1 Log on as SAN administrator. Note Portal administrators, power users and basic users are not authorized to use this command. For user privileges, see Table 1 on page 36. 2 3 4 Select an appliance in the navigation panel listing. Select the Admin menu, and then select the SNMP Community Strings command. The Change SNMP Community Strings dialog box is displayed. Edit the settings as appropriate, then select OK. To cancel edits to the SNMP Community Strings settings, select Cancel. Managing the SAN Appliance Certain functions are available by right-clicking the appliance you want to manage. Select the appliance by right-clicking either in the navigation panel or in the graphical panel. Figure 9 Right-click from the graphical panel representation of appliance ADIC Management Console User's Guide 57 Figure 10 Right-click from the navigation panel representation of appliance Refreshing Data Refreshing the appliance displays host, device, and connection status changes. After adding a device to a channel, rescan the channel and refresh data on the appliance. Note 1 2 Right-click an appliance in the navigation panel or the graphical panel. If you have turned off trap event notices, Refresh will not turn them back on. To turn them back on, follow the procedure in Receiving Event Traps on page 93. Note Saving and Loading the Configuration CAUTION Best practice is to save your configuration files to a folder on a server that will be accessible at all times. Should SNC failure occur, this allows you to quickly reconfigure a replacement. Files that are saved when this option is chosen include the device map, Fibre Channel and SCSI port settings, VPM, SFM, eVPS settings, and channel zoning settings. The device map is a record of the target IDs, device LUNs, and assigned LUNs. 1 2 3 Right-click an appliance in the navigation panel or the graphical panel. Select the Configuration menu, then select Save Configuration. Type a name for the configuration you wish to save or select one from the list of configurations already on the server, if any. 58 Performing Administrative Tasks After a few seconds the message Successfully received configuration from xxx. xxx. xxx. xxx appears in the Status/Message Area. It defaults to the "cfg" subfolder of the "Client" folder. After a few seconds the message Configuration file saved successfully appears in the Status/Message Area. [. . . ] In some implementations, virtual devices may differ from physical ones at the operating system level (e. g. , booting from a host based disk array may not be possible). Virtual library A system that virtualizes tape drives and libraries. The system makes disk storage appear as if it were a tape drive or tape library and magnetic tape to applications software. Also included in most virtual libraries is a method which allows the virtual tape to become actual tape by integration with physical tape systems. [. . . ]