If your storage space spans multiple systems on your network, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all of them from one system.
The system that you’re working on is called the local system. All other systems in your storage space are remote systems. ‘Local’ and ‘remote’ are relative terms—when you are working on system A (local system), system B is a remote system; when you are working on system B (local system), system A is a remote system.
To manage remote systems from the local system, you log in to them. (Adaptec Storage Manager encrypts the user name and password of a remote system during log-in.) Adaptec Storage Manager or the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent must be running on the remote system before you can log in to it.
When you log in to a remote system, you add that system to the Enterprise View of Adaptec Storage Manager. (Show Me!)
Once you have logged in to a remote system, it is automatically included in the Enterprise View each time you start Adaptec Storage Manager from the local system. You can work with its controllers, disk drives, and logical devices as if they were part of your local system. You must log in with the proper permission level to complete the tasks you wish to perform.
You can log into remote systems individually in Adaptec Storage Manager, or use the Remote system wizard to help you manage the remote systems in your storage space.
From the menu bar, click Remote, then select Add managed system.
The Add Managed System window opens.
Enter the host name or TCP/IP address of the remote system.
Enter the startup port number of the remote system. The default port number is 34571.
If prompted, enter your user name and password. (Passwords are case sensitive.)
To save this user name and password, click inside the Save user name/password box.
Click Connect.
Adaptec Storage Manager connects to the remote system and adds it to the list of managed systems in the Enterprise View.
To manage the remote system, select it in the Enterprise View. Enter your user name and password if prompted.
If you no longer want to monitor a remote system, you can remove it from the Enterprise View. Removing a remote system does not take it off-line.
To remove a remote system:
In the menu bar, select Remote, select Remove managed system, then click the system you want to remove.
The Remove Managed System window opens.
If you want to continue receiving events from the remote system after it has been removed from the local system, select Continue to receive events from the remote system from the drop-down menu.
Click OK.
To Use the Remote System Wizard:
Adaptec Storage Manager has a wizard to help you manage the remote systems in your storage space. The wizard simplifies the process of connecting to remote systems from the local system and adding them to the Enterprise View.
When you start Adaptec Storage Manager, an “auto-discovery” task runs in the background, continuously searching your network for systems running the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent. The wizard presents a list of discovered systems. You select systems to add to the Enterprise View when you start Adaptec Storage Manager. You can also remove systems you no longer want to manage.
To Add or Remove Remote Systems in the Wizard:
The wizard lets you add or remove discovered systems. When you add systems, you can set up a group login to connect to all selected systems with a single user name and password. You can also add discovered systems to the Enterprise View without logging in.
In the Enterprise View, select Direct Attached Storage.
From the Actions menu, select Manage Remote Systems.
The wizard opens.
Select the discovered systems you want to add to the Enterprise View, then click Add. Click Add All to select all discovered systems.
To remove a system from the Enterprise View that you no longer want to manage, select it from the Managed systems column, then click Remove. Click Remove All to remove all managed systems.
Click Next, review the Managed systems summary, then click Apply.
If you removed systems that you no longer want to manage, the Removing systems window opens. To continue receiving events from the removed systems, select Continue to receive events from remote system(s) from the drop-down list; otherwise, select Do not continue to receive events from remote system(s). Then, click OK. (Show Me!)
If you added systems, Adaptec Storage Manager prompts you to enter login credentials for the selected systems. In the Login to managed system window, enter a user name and password if security is enabled on the remote systems. Select Login to all selected systems with this username and password to use the same username/password combination for all selected systems. (You will be prompted to login to each remote system individually if you do not choose this option.) Select Save username/password to use the same login credentials each time you start Adaptec Storage Manager. (Show Me!)
To add the selected systems to the Enterprise view without logging in, select Add all selected systems to managed system view without logging in.
Click Connect. The wizard closes and the selected systems are added to the Enterprise View.
Note!Adaptec Storage Manager adds all selected systems to the Enterprise view even if login fails on some systems. For those systems, try logging in again with different credentials.
To Change Auto-Discovery Settings:
Auto-discovery is enabled by default. The auto-discovery task runs in the background each time Adaptec Storage Manager is started. You can disable auto-discovery if desired, and configure other auto-discovery settings.
To change auto-discovery settings on a system:
In the Enterprise View, select the local system.
In the tool bar, click Configure, point to the system, then click General Settings.
The Adaptec Storage Manager Agent General Settings window opens. The auto-discovery settings appear at the bottom. (Show Me!)
To enable/disable auto-discovery, select Enable auto-discovery. (This option toggles between enabled and disabled.)
Update the auto-discovery settings, as required:
In the Auto discovery scopes field, enter a comma-separated list of scopes. To be discovered by the auto-discovery task, the local system and remote system must have at least one scope in common. The default scope for an Adaptec Storage Manager Agent is Auto Discovery.
In the Auto discovery base port number field, enter the port’s TCP/IP address. You can use any port for auto-discovery. However, to use an existing SLP infrastructure, you must use port 427. The default port is 34570. If you change the port, you must restart the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent for the change to take effect.
In the Auto discovery heartbeat interval field, enter the number of seconds between each auto-discovery check. This number determines how often Adaptec Storage Manager checks for changes in remote system resources. The default is 360 seconds.
In the SLP Directory Agent address field, enter the TCP/IP address of the SLP Directory Agent. Applies only if you specified port 427 for an existing SLP infrastructure.
Click Save Changes.