Defining The Command View Management Port; Enabling Bonding - HP StorageWorks 8000 - NAS User Manual

Defining the Command View Management Port

Enabling Bonding

56 Configuring Your System and Network
The Command View Management Port lets you define a secure port through
which the NAS server and the Command View NAS web interface can
communicate. The port is defined by port designation such as eth0 and eth1;
it is not defined by IP address. eth0 is
default management port.
To define the management port you must use the command line interface
rather than Command View NAS (see Appendix E, Command View NAS
Command Line Interface for directions on accessing the command line
interface).
To set the management port:
setSystemManagementNetworkCard ethX
To verify that the management port has been set up correctly:
getSystemManagementNetworkCard
This command will return the name of your management port.
Note You will be able to communicate with the Command View
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NAS only through the designated management port with the IP
configuration that you have designated for that port.
If you change the port to a non-configured port, you will not
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be able to communicate with the server.
When you configure NIC ports, you may enable bonding through the
command line interface rather than Command View NAS (see Appendix E for
directions on accessing the command line interface). The bonding mechanism
allows for failover of NIC ports when one of the NIC ports fails or abnormally
terminates.
To bond the ports take the following steps:
Configure the first port manually (this can be done through the Command
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View NAS or using the command line interface)
— setNetworkCardIpAddress ethX X.X.X.X (first parameter is the port
designation and second parameter is the IP address).
— setNetworkCardBroadcastAddress ethX X.X.X.X (first parameter is
the port designation and second parameter is the broadcast address).
always the on-board port and is the