User`s guide

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Section 7

Setting Up Connections

You can connect to and configure local and remote systems.

This section discusses:

■ Connecting to hosts (see section 7.1)

■ Configuring Fibre Channel devices (see section 7.2)

■ Configuring LUNs for a device (see section 7.3)

■ Viewing adapter, device, and path information (see section 7.4)

■ Viewing the current LUN path (see section 7.5)

■ Viewing and setting a LUN path (see section 7.5)

■ Bind target devices attached to the adapter (see section 7.6)

■ Deleting persistent configuration data (see section 7.7)

■ Replacing devices (see section 7.8)

■ Viewing a saved host configuration from a file (see section 7.9)

■ Printing a host configuration (see section 7.10)

7.1

Connecting to Hosts

The SANblade Manager GUI tries to ensure that a host is not loaded more than

once into the HBA tree. If a host has multiple interfaces (for example, more than

one NIC is installed), the SANblade Manager GUI will not load the host more than

once in the HBA tree if the host IP address is registered with the DNS server or

local host file.

NOTE: To ensure that a host does not display more than once in the HBA tree,

This section discusses:

■ Connecting to hosts manually (see section 7.1.1)

■ Connecting to hosts automatically (see section 7.1.2)

■ Connecting to hosts using a host group file (see section 7.1.3)

■ Connecting to specified hosts automatically when starting the SANblade

Manager GUI from the command line (see section 7.1.4)

■ Disconnecting from hosts (see section 7.1.5)