HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) version 2.1 User Guide

Address

The Address of an Endpoint is represented by a string that contains the network address in a format

appropriate for the type of network described. FibreChannel endpoint addresses are represented

by their World Wide Name (WWN) in canonical form. These addresses are not case sensitive.

ZoningState

ZoningState is an enumerated type representing the state of a zone. It has two possible values:

Open, and Zoned. A network may be in the Open state only if it has no zones.

NetworkEndpointKind

NetworkEndPointKind is an enumerated type representing the implementation of the network for

a SAN network endpoint. It has two possible values: FibreChannel and IPAddress. SPM

supports only Fibre Channel networks.

AddressPattern

AddressPattern objects describe patterns of network addresses. These patterns may describe IP

network addresses or FC network addresses.

DescriptionTypeProperty

A pattern, as described in “WWN patterns” (page 78).StringPattern

A value from the AddressPatternKind enumeration, indicating the type

of network. Allowed Values are IPNetwork or FCnetwork

AddressPatternKindKind

Pattern

An AddressPatterns' pattern attribute is a string. For FC networks, the pattern is a partial WWN

with asterisks acting as wildcards when the partial WWN is compared with a complete WWN.

For more information on patterns, see “WWN patterns” (page 78).

Kind

An AddressPattern's kind attribute is either IPNetwork or FCNetwork, indicating what kind of

network the pattern may match against.

Example unmanaged SAN XML files

The following two example XML files represent unmanaged networks. The first example represents

a simple network that can be edited within SPM. The second example represents a slightly more

complex network that cannot be edited within SPM.

More complex networks will contain additional elements. An example can also be found in the

folder <SPM Install Folder>\plugins\unmanaged_san\example.xml. A precise

specification of what may be included in the XML files can be found in the xsd file defining the

format of these files in <SPM Install Folder>\plugins\unmanaged_storage\

HP.UnmanagedStorageArrayPlugin.xsd.

FC network example with patterns

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Network xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”

xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" Name="FCExample"

ZoningState="Open" xmlns="urn:SPM_SanResourceCollection_1">

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