Dot Hill Systems SANnet II 200, Installation, Operation And Service Manual

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I-2 SANnet II 200 SCSI Array Installation, Operation, and Service Manual • June 2005
I.1 Setting Up a Serial Port Connection
The RAID controller can be configured by means of a host system running a VT1000
terminal emulation program or by a Windows terminal emulation program such as
HyperTerminal.
Note –
You can also monitor and configure a RAID array over an IP network using the
firmware application or the SANscape program after you assign an IP address to the
array. For details, see “Setting Up Out-of-Band Management Over Ethernet” on
page 4-28 or refer to the
SANscape User’s Guide.
If you are planning to access your array over an IP network or through a terminal
server and only want to connect through a serial port for the initial configuration of the
array, it is not necessary to configure a serial port connection from your IBM host. For
convenience, installers frequently perform the initial array configuration using a serial
port on a portable computer.
If you want to use a Windows portable computer for this initial array configuration, see
“Setting Up the Serial Port Connection” on page F-1 for Windows 2000 systems.
If you prefer to connect through a serial port on your HP server, consult the hardware
information for your HP host system to locate a serial port you can use for configuring
the SANnet II 200 SCSI array. The system documentation also tells you what device
file to use in accessing that port. For more information about the baud rate and other
communication settings, see “Configuring a Host COM Port to Connect to a RAID
Array” on page 4-26.
Note –
The next section also shows how to use the Kermit utility to set these
parameters.
I.2 Accessing the Firmware Application From an
HP Server Running HP-UX
The RAID controller can be configured from the host system by means of terminal
emulators such as
cu
or Kermit. These instructions show the use of Kermit. For
information on
cu
, see
cu(1).
To access the controller firmware through the serial port, perform the following steps.
1. Connect the serial null-modem cable to the disk array and to the serial port on the HP
server.
Note –
A DB9-to-DB25 serial cable adapter is shipped with the disk array to connect
the serial cable to a DB25 serial port on your host if you do not have a DB9 serial port.