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

216 Configuring ISP to work with SAL
Configuring root as a SAL user
the account under which the VEA service is running, usually root. Use the
vxsalcmd command to add this user account with SAL administrator
privileges, and set an appropriate password for it. To allow ISP to have
transparent access to SAL, also use the
vxsalcmd command to store the
password on the local machine in encrypted form.
See “Configuring root as a SAL user” on page 216.
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Note: The vxsalcmd command is provided by SAL to manage SAL user
accounts. It is not a Veritas Volume Manager command.
4 Edit the etc/default/vxassist file, and add an entry to define the user
name that ISP uses for authentication. In the following example, the root
account is used:
sal_username=root
Configuring root as a SAL user
To add the root user on the remote host as a SAL user with SAL administrator
privileges on the SAL primary
1 Create a file, such as /tmp/add_user, that contains the following single
line definition of the new SAL user:
user add [e-mail] clydenw Admin
This defines root on the remote host (island.cosmos.com in this
example) as a SAL user with SAL administrator privileges, and with a
password set to clydenw.
2 Use the following command to add the new SAL user on the SAL primary
(private.cosmos.com in this example):
# vxsalcmd private.cosmos.com:2802 -u admin -f /tmp/add_user
You are prompted to enter the password for the SAL administrator, in this
example named admin.
To view the new SAL user account, enter the following command:
# vxsalcmd private.cosmos.com:2802 -u admin user list
Again, you are prompted for the SAL administrator’s password.
3 To allow ISP to communicate transparently with SAL, a local copy of the
encrypted account information for the SAL user must be set up. Create a file,
such as /tmp/maintain_user, that contains the following single line
definition of the SAL user’s password:
user rem clydenw