Which physical interface is preferred...............................................................................59
Which physical interface is active....................................................................................59
Summary of NIC states during failover.............................................................................60
Example network cabling topologies with Adaptive Load Balancing ....................................60
Creating a NIC bond.........................................................................................................61
Creating the bond.........................................................................................................62
Verify communication setting for new bond.......................................................................63
Viewing the status of a NIC bond........................................................................................64
Deleting a NIC bond..........................................................................................................65
Disabling a network interface...................................................................................................67
Configuring a disabled interface..........................................................................................68
Using a DNS server................................................................................................................68
Editing DNS settings...........................................................................................................68
Setting up routing...................................................................................................................69
Adding routing information.................................................................................................69
Editing routing information..................................................................................................69
Deleting routing information................................................................................................70
Configuring storage system communication................................................................................70
Selecting the interface used by the SAN/iQ software ............................................................70
Updating the list of manager IP addresses.............................................................................71
Fibre Channel .......................................................................................................................72
5 Setting the date and time..........................................................................73
Management group time.........................................................................................................73
Getting there..........................................................................................................................73
Refreshing the management group time.....................................................................................73
Using NTP.............................................................................................................................73
Editing NTP servers............................................................................................................74
Deleting an NTP server.......................................................................................................74
Delete an NTP server.....................................................................................................74
Changing the order of NTP servers .....................................................................................74
Editing the date and time.........................................................................................................75
Editing the time zone only........................................................................................................75
6 Managing authentication..........................................................................76
Managing administrative users.................................................................................................76
Adding an administrative user.............................................................................................76
Editing administrative users.................................................................................................76
Changing a user’s description.........................................................................................76
Changing a user’s password..........................................................................................76
Adding group membership to a user................................................................................76
Removing group membership from a user.........................................................................76
Deleting an administrative user.......................................................................................77
Managing administrative groups..............................................................................................77
Default administrative groups...............................................................................................77
Adding administrative groups.........................................................................................78
Editing administrative groups...............................................................................................78
Changing the group description......................................................................................78
Changing administrative group permissions......................................................................78
Adding users to an existing group...................................................................................78
Removing users from a group..........................................................................................78
Deleting administrative groups........................................................................................78
Using Active Directory for external authentication........................................................................79
Configuring external authentication......................................................................................80
Associating the Active Directory group with the SAN/iQ group................................................80
Removing the Active Directory configuration..........................................................................81
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