Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009
To enable ISP to receive information from SAL
1
To allow ISP to contact SAL, add the following line to the
/etc/default/vxassist file:
salcontact=yes
If this attribute is set to no or is not present, ISP cannot contact SAL.
2
Define the SAL Primary Host and SAL Primary Port by adding sal_primary
and sal_primary_port definitions to the /etc/default/vxassist_sal_info
file, as shown in the following sample entries:
sal_primary=private.cosmos.com
sal_primary_port=2802
This example enables ISP to communicate with the SAL primary
private.cosmos.com on port number 2802.
If this information is not specified, the host running ISP is assumed to be the
SAL primary, and the default port to be 2802.
3
To establish a communication channel successfully, ISP must authenticate
itself with SAL using a user name and password. The user name is that of the
account under which the VEA service is running, usually root. Use the
vxsalcmd command to add this user account with SAL administrator
privileges, and set an appropriate password for it. To allow ISP to have
transparent access to SAL, also use the vxsalcmd command to store the
password on the local machine in encrypted form.
See “Configuring root as a SAL user” on page 234.
The vxsalcmd command is provided by SAL to manage SAL user accounts. It
is not a Veritas Volume Manager command.
4
Edit the etc/default/vxassist file, and add an entry to define the user name
that ISP uses for authentication.
In the following example, the root account is used:
sal_username=root
Configuring root as a SAL user
This procedure configures root as a SAL user.
If the SAL user’s password is not stored locally, ISP attempts to authenticate with
SAL as the user admin with the password passwd.
Configuring ISP to work with SAL
Configuring root as a SAL user
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