Virtual TapeServer 8.2 Configuration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Virtual TapeServer for NonStop Servers Configuration Guide
- Preface
- Introduction
- Overview of Tasks
- Reconfiguring Vaults
- Enabling Licensed Features
- Configuring Ports
- Creating and Managing VTLs and VTDs
- Enabling and Performing Tape-to-tape Exports
- Enabling and Performing Stacked Exports
- Enabling and Configuring Data Replication
- Enabling and Configuring Role Swapping
- Configuring EMS Communication
- Enabling and Configuring Data Encryption
- Creating and Managing Virtual Media
- Enabling and Configuring Scan/Cleanup
- Configuring User Accounts
- Configuring Web Interface Preferences
- Managing the VTS Server
- Troubleshooting
- Maintaining GFS for VTS
- Reinstalling and Restoring VTS
- Attaching External Devices after Initial Deployment
- TCP/IP Ports and Protocols
- Index
Managing the VTS Server | 121
Configuring system settings
You can configure the following settings for the VTS server:
• Session timeouts, to allow inactive browser and command line sessions to time out
• SMTP settings, to define the email host and port that will use to send email notifications
• Notification settings, to define email addresses that will notifications about disk and
capacity usage
To configure system settings
1. Click Configuration→System on the navigation pane.
2. Click Edit System Settings. The following page is displayed:
3. Configure the settings as described in the online help. To view the help, click the Help
button at the top of the page.
Powering up and down
To power up
1. Press the power button located on the front panel of the VTS server module. The power
button on the front panel changes from yellow to green, and the server module self-boots.
Allow the VTS server to completely boot before proceeding. The console will display a
login prompt when it is ready to proceed.
2. Power up the VTS SCSI converter using the power switch on the rear panel, if necessary.
(This step is not necessary is connected over Fibre Channel.)
3. Start tape services on the NonStop server using the SCF START $VTAPE command,
where VTAPE is the name of the tape device. Here is an example of the output:
SCF - T9082H01 - (04DEC06) (15NOV06) - 10/02/2008 11:58:32 System \DEV5
(C) 1986 Tandem (C) 2006 Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P.
Total Errors = 0 Total Warnings = 0
$SYSTEM SYSTEM 8> SCF STATUS $VTAPE01
SCF - T9082H01 - (04DEC06) (15NOV06) - 10/02/2008 11:58:44 System \DEV5
(C) 1986 Tandem (C) 2006 Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P.
STORAGE - Status TAPE \DEV5.$VTAPE01
LDev State Primary Backup DeviceStatus
PID PID
289 STARTED 0,312 1,1069 NOT READY
Total Errors = 0 Total Warnings = 0