Dot Hill Systems II 200 FC Out-of-Band Connections, In-Band Connections, Other Supported Software

■SANscape Alert provides event monitoring and notification. Refer to the SANscape Alert User’s Guide for information.

■SANscape Command-Line Interface (CLI) provides script-based management. Refer to the SANscape CLI User’s Guide for SANscape CLI information.

For details on how to install SANscape, SANscape Alert, or SANscape CLI software, refer to the SANscape Software Installation Guide.

The documentation CD provides the related user guides, with detailed installation and configuration procedures for SANscape and SANscape Alert.

7.1.1Out-of-Band Connections

With the out-of-band serial port connection, you can use a Solaris tip session or a Microsoft Windows terminal emulation program to access the firmware application. For details, see “Setting Up the Serial Port Connection” on page E-1.

With the out-of-band Ethernet port connection, you can use the telnet command to access the firmware application. For details, see “Setting Up Out-of-Band Management Over Ethernet” on page 4-28.

You can also configure an array over the Ethernet connection with the SANscape CLI and the SANscape software.

Caution – If you assign an IP address to an array to manage it out-of-band, for security reasons consider using an IP address on a private network rather than a publicly routable network.

7.1.2In-Band Connections

With in-band host connections, you can use SANscape software or the SANscape Command-Line Interface (CLI).

■Refer to the SANscape User’s Guide for the in-band setup procedures.

■Refer to the SANscape CLI User’s Guide for in-band and out-of-band commands.

■Refer to the SANscape Software Installation Guide for all SANnet II 200 installation instructions for all host-based software.

7.1.3Other Supported Software

Multipathing for FC, SATA, and SATA SE arrays is provided by SANpath software. Multipathing software is required when you have multiple connections from a server to an array (directly or through a switch), want to avoid a single point of failure, and are

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