User`s guide
SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Application User’s Guide
Management Application for SANsurfer iSCSI Host Bus Adapters
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Section 6 Getting Started
6.1 Starting the SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager GUI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
6.1.1 Starting SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager on Windows 2000/
Windows Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
6.1.2 Starting SANsurfer on Red Hat/SuSE Linux or Solaris SPARC . . . . . 6-2
6.2 SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager Main Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
6.3 Exiting the SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
6.4 Getting Help with the SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager GUI . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
6.4.1 Viewing Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
6.4.2 Specifying the Browser Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
6.4.3 Viewing SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager Software Information . . . . . . 6-8
6.5 Setting SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
6.6 Specifying Whether iSCSI Names or iSCSI Alias Names Display
in the HBA Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
6.7 Setting the Options for Retrieving Host Status Alarms and Refreshing
the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
6.7.1 Specifying the Polling Intervals to Retrieve Host Status Alarms . . . . . 6-14
6.7.1.1 Specifying the HBA Polling Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
6.7.1.2 Specifying the Host Polling Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
6.7.2 Specifying Whether the Configuration Refreshes when Host and
Target Status Alarms Occur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17
6.7.3 Specifying Whether the Host Refresh Prompt Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
6.8 Refreshing the Configuration Immediately . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19
Section 7 Setting Up Connections
7.1 Connecting to Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
7.1.1 Manually Connecting to a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
7.1.2 Connecting to Hosts Using a Host Group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
7.1.2.1 Creating a Host Group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
7.1.2.2 Using a Host Group File to Connect to Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
7.1.3 Disconnecting from a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
7.2 Configuring the QLA4xxx HBA Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
7.2.1 Configuring the HBA Port iSCSI Name and HBA Port iSCSI
Alias Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
7.2.1.1 Modifying the HBA Port iSCSI Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
7.2.1.2 Assigning the HBA Port iSCSI Alias Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
7.2.2 Setting the IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
7.2.2.1 Setting the IP Address Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
7.2.2.2 Setting the IP Address Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8