HP Storage Essentials V5.1 Installation Guide Second Edition (Linux Release) (T4283-96055, November 2006)
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1. Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Home on the HP SIM home page menu. The HP SE home
page opens in a separate web browser window. Click Discovery > Setup in the upper-right
pane of the HP SE window.
2. Select Step 1 at the top of the page.
3. Click the IP Addresses tab.
4. Click the Add Address button.
5. In the IP Address/DNS Name field, enter the IP address or DNS name for the storage system
and its namespace. For example:
<IP address/DNS name>/root/cimv2
where
• <IP address/DNS name> is the IP address or DNS name of the storage system.
• /root/cimv2 is its namespace.
6. You can leave the user name and password for the Xiotech storage system blank.
7. In the Comment field (optional), type a comment for additional information. The information
typed into this field is displayed under the Comment column in the Addresses to Discover list
(Tools > Storage Essentials > Home > Discovery > Setup).
8. Do not select the Do Not Authenticate option.
9. Click OK.
10.To start discovering elements on the network, click the Start Discovery button on the IP
Addresses tab.
Discovering HP NAS Devices on Windows
In order to discover an HP NAS device on Windows, you must first install a CIM extension on the
device.
In order to enable NAS support, you must modify a property file on the NAS device. To enable NAS
support:
1. Connect to the NAS device on which you have installed the CIM extension.
2. Browse to the installation directory and open the CIMextension/conf directory.
3. Copy the nas.properties-sample file and paste a copy into the same directory.
4. Rename the copied file to nas.properties.
5. Open the file and locate the following line:
# Set to true to enable NAS data collection; “false” is the default
nas=false
6. Change the value to true to enable NAS support, as shown in the following example:
nas=true
7. Save your changes and close the file.
8. Restart the CIM extension.
Discovery from HP SIM
To discover an HP NAS device on Windows, provide the following information in HP Insight
Manager: