Setting The Raid Controller Module Clocks; Setting The Storage Array Host Type - Dell PowerVault MD3260 Cli Manual

By default, all alert configuration settings are None.
The following example shows how to set the mail server IP and the sender address configurations for SMTP alerts:
SMcli -m 123.45.67.892 -F
MyStorageArrayEvent@MyCompany.com
or
SMcli -m MyCompany.com -F
MyStorageArrayEvent@MyCompany.com
An example of a command to set the email alert destination and specify that only event information is to be sent is:
SMcli -a email:MyCompanySupport@MyCompany.com
123.45.67.89 -I eventOnly
The following example shows how to set the SNMP trap alert configuration. In this example, the trap destination is
123.45.67.891. The storage array is 123.45.67.892, and the community name is public.
SMcli -a trap:public, 123.45.67.891 123.45.67.892

Setting The RAID Controller Module Clocks

To synchronize the clocks on the RAID controller modules with the host, use the set storageArray time
command. Running this command helps ensure that event timestamps written by RAID controller modules to the Major
Event Log (MEL) match event timestamps written to the host log files. The RAID controller modules remain available
during synchronization. An example of the command is:
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "set storageArray time;"

Setting The Storage Array Host Type

The set storageArray command enables you to define the default host type. The following syntax is the general
form of the command:
set storageArray defaultHostType=(hostTypeName | hostTypeIdentifier)
The defaultHostType parameter defines how the RAID controller modules communicate with the operating system
on undefined hosts connected to the storage array. This parameter defines the host type only for storage array data I/O
activities; it does not define the host type for the management station. The operating system can be Windows or Linux.
For example, if you set the defaultHostType to Linux, the RAID controller module communicates with any
undefined host if the undefined host is running Linux. Typically, you need to change the host type only when you are
setting up the storage array. The only time you might need to use this parameter is if you need to change how the
storage array behaves relative to the hosts.
Before you can define the default host type, you need to determine what host types are connected to the storage array.
To return information about host types connected to the storage array, you can use the show storageArray
command with the defaultHostType parameter or hostTypeTable parameter. This command returns a list of
the host types with which the RAID controller modules can communicate; it does not return a list of the hosts. The
following examples show how to use the defaultHostType parameter and the hostTypeTable parameter:
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "show storageArray defaultHostType;"
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "show storageArray hostTypeTable;"
The following example shows how to define a specific default host type:
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "set storageArray defaultHostType=11;"
The value 11 is the host type index value from the host type table.
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