User`s guide

7 – Setting Up Connections
Configuring the QLA4xxx HBA Port
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Perform the following steps to enable SLP:
1. In the SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager main window HBA tree, select the HBA
port. Click the HBA Options tab; then click the Network tab. The HBA Options
tabbed page (Network tab) displays (see figure 7-2).
2. In the Network tab enable SLP section, do the following:
a. Select the Enable SLP check box.
b. Set the directory agent (DA) address automatically, manually, or through the
discovery process. Do one of the following:
❑ Select the Obtain DA address automatically (via DHCP) option button
to set the DA address automatically.
❑ Select the Use the following DA address option button to set the DA
address manually. Enter the DA address.
❑ Select the Discover DA option button to find the DA address using the
discovery process.
7.2.5
Enabling iSNS
If the iSCSI equipment requires discovery functions beyond the SendTargets
command, implement SLP (see section 7.2.4) and also consider iSNS when
extended discovery management capabilities (such as, notifications, access
management, and configuration) are required, such is in larger storage networks.
Perform the following steps to enable iSNS:
1. In the SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager main window HBA tree, select the HBA
port. Click the HBA Options tab; then click the Network tab. The HBA Options
tabbed page (Network tab) displays (see figure 7-2).
2. In the enable iSNS section, do the following to set the iSNS server address
manually.
NOTE: At the time of this publication, Obtain iSNS IP address
automatically (via DHCP) is not available.
a. Select the Enable iSNS check box.
b. Select the Use the following iSNS server address option button.
c. Enter the IP address.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the Hostname field is not supported.