2.6 Out-of-Band Via Ethernet

Newer line of Infortrend controllers provides an Ethernet port for connection with a management station.  RAIDWatch programs can now run on a RAID system,  allowing users to manage the system from any management station in any place via TCP/IP protocol.

Listed below are steps necessary for preparing RAIDWatch programs on a RAID controller.

  1. Follow the instructions in documentation that came with your controller for details on how to connect  Ethernet port.  Requirements for a management station are the same as those for the clients running RAIDWatch manager.  Support for Java should be enabled on a management station accessing the manager program through web browser.
  2. Create a logical drive by the use of LCD front panel or firmware-embedded manager.  Make sure there is no pre-configured storage sector on the selected member drives.
  3. Assign an IP address to the controller and provide NetMask and Gateway values.  Reset the controller for the configuration to take effect.
  4. The controller will take a while formatting a small storage sector for the manager programs.  When the controller is finished with formatting drives, ftp RAIDWatch programs to the designated controller  IP address.  Program files transferred to a controller for out-of-band management should include: GRM.HTM, GRM.JAR, and IFT-Bundle_0.  Files named as IFT-Bundle are definitions of multi-language support.  For an English interface, ftp IFT-Bundle_0 to the controller.
  5. Primary and Secondary Agents are not necessary here.
  6. Other modules, NPC and Event Monitor, should be installed on host computer.  The requirements and installation procedures are the same as described in the previous sections.
  7. Start your web browser and enter the IP address  assigned to the controller followed by GRM.HTM as your URL (e.g., 222.212.121.123\GRM.HTM).
  8. A RAID system thus connected can also be accessed by a Primary Agent host in a greater topological scheme involving multiple RAID systems.  The RAID system will then be considered as one of the Secondary Agent host and managed from where another RAIDWatch manager resides through the Primary Agent.  The RAID system can also be defined as one of the monitoring targets where multiple systems are managed by an NPC or Event Monitor.

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