huawei san storage how to - assigning management ip address

Huawei SAN Storage – How To

Assigning the Management IP Addresses

Huawei SAN Storage – How To :

Assigning Management IP Address



Welcome to this second tutorial about technological

solutions “Huawei SAN Storage”.

Assigning the management IP Addresses

The topic of the day is “Assigning the Management IP Addresses”, in order to access, configure and diagnose

the SAN Storage device, using the ISM (Integrated Storage Management) software.

As for the previous tutorial, we will use as a demo the smallest unit of the Oceanstor product line: S2200T.

The S2200T is the smallest one as hardware solution, but it has standard SAN capabilities and, more important,

it uses the same management console as the bigger ones: the ISM (integrated Storage Management)



To begin with this task, we have to

start working with an old IT

technology: RS-232 serial

communication.

At first, we have to use the serial

cable supplied with storage.

In support of the serial cable, either

we have to use a PC with an old RS-

232 port, or an actual laptop

equipped with a converter like the

one pictured here: USB to RS-232.



After having joined the converter to the

serial cable, use the other end of the

latter to plug the RJ-45 connector to the

SAN, in the port bearing the following

symbol: |O|O|. (that is positioned

towards the middle of the rear panel, like

in the following picture).

There are two ports of this kind

(CONSOLE), one for each controller: you

can use either one or the other

indifferently, since you can use one to

configure the other, as you like.



Now let's turn to the activities to be performed on the PC.

We will use the freeware PUTTY as terminal emulator.

Training on PUTTY is not our purpose, however I will list

the necessary settings required by the SAN, so you can

use them on your preferred terminal emulator.

Briefly, we have an 8n1 at 115200 bps without flow control.

In detail, on the serial settings screen (last leaf of the tree

on the left), we have to type:

- COM 4 or equivalent: it is assigned by the computer to

the USB-RS232 converter. It varies from PC to PC.

- SPEED: 115200

- Data Bits: 8

- Parity: none

- Stop Bits: 1

- Flow Control: none (as default PUTTY offers xon-xoff)



Click Open to return to the main screen, where you click

to Serial (see picture here, near the mouse pointer) then

click again OPEN.

Now it should open a black screen, and, if everything is

well connected, after pressing enter 2 times, it will ask us

to login



The default credentials are:

user=admin, password=Admin@storage

If everything is typed correctly, the

storage will reply with the welcome

screen in the picture here on the right.

Now we are ready to enter the

management IP addresses !



The command that we will use is

chgctrlip (ie: Change Controller IP)

We can see here an example of the

default syntax by typing :

help -c chgctrlip

The highlighted line is our example, so

we just have to customize the IP

parameters to match our environment,

and remember to set the appropriate

address on each controllers: a and b.

The controller is simply identified by the

character between -c and -ip.

Here's how it answers to the actual

command.



At this point, let's verify that the address have

been acquired correctly and leave.

Our command is showctrlip.

Finally, if we can ping the SAN from our

computer or our server, we can say we did

everything correctly.

As a double check, we can try and access via

HTTP, and here is what we get: the installation

prompt of the ISM.



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