HP StorageWorks XP Provisioning Manager User Guide (December 2005)

Provisioning Manager Planning and Startup 27
2 Provisioning Manager Planning and Startup
This chapter describes the prerequisites for using Provisioning Manager, and the procedure for starting and
logging into the program.
• Before logging in to Provisioning Manager (section
2-1 )
• Logging in to Provisioning Manager (section
2-2 )
• Registering and Viewing License Information (section
2-3 )
• Starting Provisioning Manager Operation (section
2-4 )
• Using Provisioning Manager Windows (section
2-5 )
2-1 Before Logging in to Provisioning Manager
Before starting Provisioning Manager, you must check the following:
• Check that Provisioning Manager has already been installed and configured for a Provisioning Manager
environment and is ready for operation. Write down the IP address of the Provisioning Manager server.
For details on the Provisioning Manager server, see the HP StorageWorks XP Provisioning Manager
Installation and Configuration Guide.
• If any of the following tasks were being performed in Device Manager, make sure that the tasks have
finished:
• Creating volumes
• Registering users
• Allocating a host and volume to a user group
For details on the settings in Device Manager, see the HP StorageWorks Command View XP Advanced
Edition Device Manager Web Client User Guide.
• Check what browser you are using and its version.
For Windows
®
, make sure that the browser you are using is Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
For Solaris™, make sure that the browser you are using is Netscape Navigator 7.0 or Mozilla™ 1.4.
For HP-UX, make sure that the browser you are using is Mozilla 1.7.3_02.
• When you log in to Provisioning Manager for the first time, make sure that license information has already
been registered.
You cannot log in if license information has not been registered. For details, see
2-3 .
Table 2-1 Operating Systems Supported by Management Clients that Use the GUI
OS Name Version
Windows
®
2000 Windows
®
2000 Server SP3
Windows
®
2000 Advanced Server SP3
Windows
®
2000 Datacenter Server SP3
Windows
®
2000 Professional SP3
Windows
®
2000 Server SP4
Windows
®
2000 Advanced Server SP4
Windows
®
2000 Datacenter Server SP4
Windows
®
2000 Professional SP4
Windows Server™ 2003
(32bits)
Windows Server™ 2003 Standard Edition
Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server™ 2003 Datacenter Edition
Windows
®
XP Windows
®
XP Professional
Windows
®
XP Professional SP1
Windows
®
XP Professional SP2
Solaris™
(SPARC version)
Solaris™ 8
Solaris™ 9
HP-UX HP-UX 11i v1 (PA-RISC)
HP-UX 11i v2 (PA-RISC and IPF)