Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0 AdministratorÆs Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

Appendix

Configuring ISP to work

with SAL

The SAN Access Layer (SAL) provides information about storage, hosts, and

connectivity between hosts, and storage, HBAs, volumes and file systems. You

can configure ISP to understand and consume information that is provided by

SAL. The storage attributes provided by SAL can then be used with ISP rules.

This appendix describes how to configure ISP and the SAN Access Layer (SAL) so

that they can work together.

Enabling ISP to work with SAL

To enable ISP to receive information from SAL

1 To allow ISP to contact SAL, add the following line to the /etc/default/

vxassist file:

salcontact=yes

If this attribute is set to no or is not present, ISP cannot contact SAL.

2 Define the SAL Primary Host and SAL Primary Port by adding

sal_primary and sal_primary_port definitions to the /etc/

default/vxassist_sal_info file, as shown in the following sample

entries:

sal_primary=private.cosmos.com

sal_primary_port=2802

This example enables ISP to communicate with the SAL primary

private.cosmos.com on port number 2802.

If this information is not specified, the host running ISP is assumed to be

the SAL primary, and the default port to be 2802.

3 To establish a communication channel successfully, ISP must authenticate

itself with SAL using a user name and password. The user name is that of