6.3 HP StoreAll Storage Installation Guide (TA768-96085, April 2013)

3. Verify that the StoreAll client is operational. The following command reports whether StoreAll
services are running:
/etc/init.d/ibrix_client status
Registering Linux StoreAll clients
Linux StoreAll clients must be registered manually with the management console before they can
mount a file system. To register a client using the CLI, use the following command:
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_client -a -h HOST -e IPADDRESS
For example, to register client12.hp.com, which is accessible at IP address 192.168.2.12:
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_client -a -h client12.hp.com -e 192.168.2.12
Registering multicluster clients
A multicluster client is one that is registered to more than one management console and is thus a
member of more than one cluster. To configure such a remote client, you will need to run programs
as the root user on both the client and the management console.
The remote StoreAll client and the new cluster must be in the same subnet and routable to each
other. The remote client and the new cluster’s management console must be running the same
version of StoreAll software.
Install and register the StoreAll client on the first cluster, and then run the following procedure as
user root:
1. From the StoreAll client, register the client with the new cluster:
register_client -p IPADDRESS -c clusterIF —n ClientName
IPADDRESS is the address of the new management console and clusterIF is the interface
used for cluster communication. The new management console entry is added to the client
iadconf.xml file and can be listed by executing the ibrix_client command on the new
management console.
2. Restart StoreAll client services:
/etc/init.d/ibrix_client restart
3. On the new cluster’s active management console, create a mountpoint for the new client and
set the mount intent. In this example, the file system is ifs1, the mountpoint is /mnt_ifs1,
and the client’s host name is client1.net.com.
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_mountpoint -c -m /mnt_ifs1 -h client1.net.com
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_mount -f ifs1 -m /mnt_ifs1
On the client, specify the cluster name when mounting a file system located on the second cluster:
ibrix_lwmount -f <cluster-name>:fs1 -m /fs1
Preferring a network interface for a Linux StoreAll client
Use the following command to prefer a network interface:
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_client -n -h SRCHOST -A DESTHOST/IFNAME
Execute this command once for each destination host that the StoreAll client should contact using
the specified network interface (IFNAME).
Preferring a network interface for a hostgroup
You can prefer an interface for multiple StoreAll clients at one time by specifying a hostgroup. To
prefer a user network interface for all StoreAll clients, specify the clients hostgroup. After
preferring a network interface for a hostgroup, you can locally override the preference on individual
StoreAll clients with the command ibrix_lwhost.
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