IBM System Storage DS4000, Planning And Installation Manual

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Remote access permissions
Indicate whether the appliance is normally connected to a phone line and
whether IBM Service should contact your staff before connecting to the
appliance.
Note: If the appliance is not connected to a phone line, then monitoring of
problems cannot be performed. In this case, the appliance is used
only for remote access to a DS4000 storage server when a problem
has been reported to IBM Service.
Heartbeat access permissions
Indicate whether heartbeat checks are permitted. During a heartbeat check,
IBM Service dials into the appliance to verify that the phone line and
appliance are operational. There is no access to any DS4000 storage
server during a heartbeat check. You may choose to permit or not permit
calls to the appliance to perform these checks.
Subsystem details (page 2 of the worksheet)
The DS4000 Alert Manager Appliance can monitor up to four DS4000 storage
servers. If your initial installation monitors less than four storage servers, then you
can add monitoring for more storage servers in the future. (For more information,
see “Adding additional DS4000 storage servers to an existing DS4000 Alert
Manager Appliance configuration” on page 9.) Specify information about each of the
storage servers to be attached to the appliance in the table on page 2 of the
worksheet.
Attention: The storage server names given should match precisely the storage
server names used in IBM DS4000 Storage Manager.
Serial attachment cables are available in 16 ft. (4.8 m) and 50 ft. (15 m) lengths.
Indicate which length is needed to attach each storage server.
The “New or existing” column of the table is used when adding a new DS4000
storage server to an existing DS4000 Alert Manager Appliance. Indicate “Existing”
for the previously installed DS4000 storage server(s) and “New” for the storage
servers being added.
The following example shows sample details for three DS4000 storage servers.
Table 1. Subsystem details example
Machine type
Serial
number
Subsystem
name
New or
existing
Length of
cables
needed
Number of
controllers
1742-1RU 23A3040 KeyBiscayne New 16 2
1722-6LU 23B0211 KeyLargo New 16 1
1742-90U 23A3110 KeyWest New 50 2
Connection and installation considerations
The following connections are required when installing the DS4000 Alert Manager
Appliance. These connections should be provided at the installation site.
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Analog phone line – A dedicated analog phone line with long distance capabilities
is required. Document the phone number assigned to this line.
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