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Adding a Server
You need to assign a server to manage a controller.
Before you can configure a server, you need to add it to the Managed
Servers list through the Server List Setup.
- Start SANscape
if it is not already running.
- Choose File > Server List Setup.
The Server List Setup window is displayed.
- (Optional) Organize the servers into
groups:
Depending on how many servers you have
and where they are located, it might be helpful to organize them into
groups. For example, if you have multiple servers in separate storage
rooms, you might want to create groups based on location.
- Click Groups in the Server
List Setup window. The Group List Setup window is displayed.
- Type a name in the Group Name
field and click Add.
- To delete a group, select the group
name from the Available Groups list and click Delete.
- When you have finished adding and
deleting groups, click OK. The Server List Setup window
is displayed.
- Add a server:
- Click Add under the Available
Servers list. The Add Server window is displayed.
- Type the name of the server in the
Server name field and press Return.
The server name identifies the server.
If this name is in your network's name server database, SANscape
determines the server's IP address and displays it in the IP
Address field.
If the program cannot find an IP address
for the name, the name was either typed incorrectly or has not been
recorded in the server's name database.
- If required, type the server's TCP/IP
address in the IP Address field.
If the program has not already displayed
the IP address (as described in the previous step), type the IP
address manually.
Selecting Get IP Addr by Name,
located below the IP Address, field is another method of
having the program search for the IP address and display it automatically.
As mentioned in the previous step, it works only if your network
has a name server database and you have typed the server name as
it is recorded in that database. Otherwise, you must type the IP
address manually.
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(Optional) To set up SANscape so
that a password is not required to monitor the server, type the
ssmon password that was assigned when SANscape was installed.
See Logging In, Logging Out,
and Security for more information on passwords.
- Select or deselect Automatic Discovery
of servers:
- Select No for Auto Discovery
if you need a very secure environment where access even to server
inventory data is restricted.
When you select No, the program
does not retrieve server information when starting up. The
server's icon is displayed as color-coded white (instead of active
purple) to indicate it is undiscovered. When you double-click an
undiscovered server, SANscape prompts
you for the ssmon user password. Optionally, you can also
select the server and choose File > Login.
Select Yes for Auto Discovery
to retrieve all information available about this server when the
console is started.
- If you select Yes for Auto
Discovery, type the same monitor password that was entered earlier
when the ssmon user was set up on the server (or group of
servers if you have a domain or an NDS tree).
Once the server(s) have been established
using Auto Discovery, you do not need to type the ssmon
password when you log in to SANscape;
you automatically have monitoring privileges.
However whenever you choose a command
to perform administration or configuration activities, you are be
prompted with a login dialog box to change your level of security
by typing the password for either the ssadmin or ssconfig
user that was established earlier.
- Click OK.
- (Optional) Set email addresses.
- If you want SANscape to send event messages
using email, click the Mailing Lists tab and continue with the
following directions.
You might want to type your own email address
and the addresses of selected users for the purpose of receiving information
about critical events on the server.
NOTE: Instead of keeping the console
running in the foreground, you can use SANscape Alert
a companion utility of SANscape that runs
as a background service that sends messages from the hosts and array
to specified email addresses. For background information and steps for
installing SANscape Alert, see SANscape Alert. To ensure that SANscape receives
email and for another method of receiving event alerts without using
SANscape, see SNMP.
- For each user, type an email address in
the Mail Address field.
- In the Severity list box, scroll
through the list of severity levels and choose from the following options:
- Critical - Messages that require
intervention by the network administrator, such as failure of a device,
power supply, or fan.
- Informational - Messages about
the devices on the server that do not require intervention by the
network administrator.
- Warning - Messages that generally
indicate internal program events. If you see a large number of these
messages, it might mean that there is a problem with the server or
the network.
Whatever level you choose, you receive
event messages for that level and any other levels at a higher security.
Thus, if you choose Informational, for example, you are notified
of any form of malfunction. Conversely, if you want to be notified
of only critical situations, select Critical, and you are not
notified of any Informational or Warning events.
- Click Add to List.
To delete a user from the list, select
the mail address and click Delete from List.
- Specify the mail server to be used.
Note that the Setup Mail Server
button toggles with Change Mail Server, depending on whether
a mail server has been defined previously.
For new setups, click Setup Mail Server.
A Mail Server Setup window is displayed.
- Type the IP address of the Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP) mail server that is delivering the email
messages to the destination addresses specified earlier.
- Click OK when you are satisfied
with the information on the Mail Server window. The Add Server
window is displayed showing the Mailing Lists tab.
- Complete the Add Server function:
- (Optional) If you want this server
to be part of a group, click the Grouping tab. The Add
Server window is displayed.
- Select the list box to view the choices
available.
- Select the desired group and release
the mouse button.
- Click OK to register the change.
- If you want to add more servers, repeat
Steps 3 through 7 for each server.
- Move the servers you want this console
to control to the Managed Servers list.
- If you want this console to manage all
the available servers, click Add All located at the top of
the dialog box.
- To move individual servers to the managed
column, select each server individually and click Add located
between the two list boxes.
- If during the process of adding servers,
modifications need to be made, see
Editing Server Information.
- When you have finished adding servers,
select OK to return to the main window.
NOTE: If the array is attached to
multiple hosts and an agent is installed on each host, each host's IP
address must be entered and added to the Managed Servers list.
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