Dot Hill Systems II 200 FC service manual Setting Up Out-of-Band Management Over Ethernet

8.Choose Yes to reset the controller.

The controller takes a few minutes to format a small storage sector on each physical drive before logical drives can be successfully initialized.

4.12Setting Up Out-of-Band Management Over Ethernet

The controller Ethernet port offers interactive out-of-band management through the following interfaces:

■The SANscape application. Refer to the SANscape User’s Guide for details.

■The SANscape Command-Line Interface (CLI). Refer to the SANscape CLI User’s Guide for details.

■The firmware application you access when you use the telnet command to connect to the IP address of the controller.

Using an Ethernet connection, you can configure and monitor RAID arrays and expansion units remotely by using the telnet command to access the firmware application on the array and by using the SANscape or SANscape CLI 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. Using the controller firmware to set a password for the controller limits unauthorized access to the array. Changing the firmware’s Network Protocol Support settings can provide further security by disabling the ability to remotely connect to the array using individual protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, telnet, FTP, and SSH. Refer to the “Communication Parameters” section of the SANnet II Family RAID Firmware User’s Guide for more information.

1.To access the RAID array over an Ethernet connection, first connect the RAID array’s Ethernet port on each controller to the network.

Note – SANnet II family arrays require at least CAT-5 Ethernet cable.

Note – In a dual-controller RAID array, be sure to connect both Ethernet ports to the network. This provides failover if one controller fails.

2.Establish the IP address of the RAID array, as described in “Establishing Communications With An Array” on page 4-25.

3.To use the firmware application program from the host server, connect to the IP address of the RAID array controller with the following command:

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