HP P9000 RAID Manager User Guide

Figure 1 Overview of out-of-band and in-band operations
The following table provides a comparison of in-band and out-of-band operations.
Table 2 Comparison of in-band and out-of-band operations
SpecificationCommandRoute
The required or not required of user authentication is
changed by the setting of user authentication.
ReplicationIn-band (issued from the host
as if it were a command for the
command device)
User authentication is required.Provisioning
User authentication is required.ReplicationOut-of-band (communicating
directly with the SVP)
User authentication is required.Provisioning
User authentication
To enable user authentication, it is required to enable user authentication mode for the command
device of RAID Manager. If the authentication is disabled, provisioning commands and out-of-band
commands cannot be executed.
The user information to be used (user ID or password) are the same with that of Remote Web
Console and SVP.
LDEV nickname function
A unique nickname with up to 32 characters can be given to an LDEV.
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