Where To Go Next; Common Group Customization Tasks - Dell EqualLogic PS Series Installation And Setup

5 Where to Go Next

After getting started, you can customize a group in order to more effectively
manage your storage environment. You can also begin to utilize the full set of
product features.
The PS Series Group Administration manual provides details on storage concepts
and how to use the Group Manager GUI to manage a group. The PS Series
CLI Reference manual describes how to use the Group Manager CLI to manage a
group and individual arrays.

Common Group Customization Tasks

Table 5-1 describes the common group customization tasks. These tasks are fully
documented in the PS Series Group Administration manual.
Table 5-1: Common Group Customization Tasks
Task
Add network connections
to a group member.
Create administration
accounts.
Set up event notification. To be informed of significant events in a timely manner, set
Configure SNMP.
Configure iSNS.
Configure CHAP
accounts.
Modify the date, time, or
time zone or configure
NTP.
Description
Multiple network connections increase performance and
availability and are required for multipath I/O. Dell
recommends that you connect all the network interfaces on
both control modules to multiple network switches and then
use the GUI or CLI to assign an IP address and netmask to the
interfaces.
The account is the default administration account.
grpadmin
You can set up additional accounts with different privileges.
up e-mail or syslog notification.
To monitor traps from the group, you can use SNMP. In
addition, you need to configure SNMP to use the Manual
Transfer Utility and other third-party monitoring tools.
To automate iSCSI target discovery, you can configure the
group to use an iSNS server.
You can use CHAP to restrict computer access to volumes.
Both initiator and target CHAP authentication are supported.
Group time is based on the clock on the first member, which
is set at the factory. The default time zone is EST. You can
also configure the group to use an NTP server.
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