Huawei SAN Storage How To - ISM management application setup

Huawei SAN Storage – How To

ISM management application setup

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Welcome to this new tutorial on Huawei SAN Storage

technologies. Today we will deal with the installation

of the management tool, said ISM (Integrated Storage

Management) necessary to carry out all practical

operations on the Storage.

It is a simple task, but you have to pay attention to various small details.

The ISM can be downloaded, via browser, directly from the storage IP address we

have assigned with the procedure we saw in the previous tutorial .... but some

strong requirements are also needed.



First requirement of all, the availability of the Java engine: in this case, you need a

JRE version 1.6.0_20 or more recent.

Second requirement, a browser approved by Huawei: for examples we will use an

Internet Explorer version 8; for later versions, it is suggested to enable

compatibility mode.

Third thing to watch out for: always type in the IP address of the storage, and never

use any simple and convenient DNS resolution: it is not supported and it can cause

misleading errors.



Now, the practical part. Open the

browser and navigate to one of the

two IP addresses of the storage

(those IPs from the procedure shown

in the previous tutorial).

You will get a warning as in Figure 1:

this is caused by the certificate that

is auto-generated by the storage

controller, and this is indeed the

expected behavior for self-generated

certificates. So, don't worry and

safely go on by clicking the lower

option (the one that is not

recommended).

Figure 1



Next we have a welcome screen that

contains a little ''advertising'' on the

right, and two useful links on the

left.

The lower link, quoting the version of

the JRE required, actually points to

Oracle site that lets you register and

lets you do the download. (in our

demo system the JRE is already

installed).

The upper link starts the actual

installation we need.

Figure 2



During this operation, two requests may

appear, similar to what is shown in Figure 3:

in both cases you should click "always trust

this etc etc" and then continue.

The installation goes on for several

minutes, showing only a small window

without any progress bar, as we see in

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Figure 3



Installation ends when the choice between

English and Chinese will appear, (Figure 5).

At this point you can close internet explorer,

and you can find a new icon on the desktop,

which was intended to refer to ISM: this has

been already launched for us.

After choosing a language, another choice

option appears (Figure 6): since it's

useless, it is better to select the "Do not

show again" and close it.

Figure 6

Figure 5



Now, finally, we have the ISM interface ready to use on the desktop, as it will be

shown every time we will open it.

First, you have to instruct ISM which storage is to be connected, by selecting the

magnifying glass icon near the upper left corner.

Figure 7



In the new window (Figure 8, bottom part) it will

be necessary to specify, if you do not already have

it as default, the IP address of a storage controller.

Pay attention here too: it does not accept any DNS

resolutions, but only numeric IP addresses.

In the upper section (authentication), the first

time you log on, you must use the default account

(user: admin, password: admin@storage), while

later on you can define custom access credentials.

Click OK to continue.

Figure 8



If authentication is successful, you will see a screen like Figure 9, with the

progressive bar reaching 100% after a certain time.

If there were problems, no alarms will appear here, but the progressive bar

remains stopped at 1% and, after a certain period, the Result column will

indicate the reason for the failure.

Figure 9

Now you can close this small window, and the big management window will

remain available to the user. Later on I will call ISM windows as 'Console' too.



Figure 10

The console comes with a tree

on the left, containing all

possible configuration options,

and not only.

In Figure 10, for example,

Device Info is selected: this

permits to display all the

hardware smallest details of the

storage, choosing items with the

mouse.



Selecting Settings, however, shows us

all the possible wizards (Figure 11 )

and Figure 12 (Storage Resources)

shows a reporting section.

Figure 11

Figure 12



Last but not least, do not forget that the operations of shutting down and rebooting of

the storage are absolutely not be accomplished through the use of the physical switch,

but you have to drive them through software operations.

The right place where you will find the 'keys' Shutdown and Restart are at the root of

the tree on the left, under "all devices" and after selecting the device (storage) on

which to act.

I hope you have enjoyed this session, and hope to find you in the next tutorial.

Figure 13



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