
OneCommand™ Manager Application P007997-01A Rev. B
5. Configuring Discovery
Discovery Using the TCP/IP Access Protocol
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Discovery Using the TCP/IP Access Protocol
You can discover adapters on IPv4 and IPv6 TCP/IP hosts and on hosts configured to
support the CIM interface that have the OneCommand Manager application installed.
Remote SAN management over TCP/IP sends remote management requests using
TCP/IP access protocol to remote hosts. TCP/IP access enables you to access adapters
via their host IP-address or by the name of the host on which they reside. Since
adapters can exist on a host, but not be a part of an FC network or are zoned on the
switch to be hidden to other adapters, they do not appear during normal FC discovery.
Thus, TCP/IP access enlarges the number of adapters that can be discovered and
managed.
Note: In Windows, if you are running a firewall you may need to add the
OneCommand Manager application remote server to the firewall’s exception
list. This remote server’s path is:
\Program Files\Emulex\Util\Common\rmserver.exe
On an Itanium 64 host the path is:
\Program Files (x86)\Emulex\Util\Common\rmserver.exe
The principle differences between FC and TCP/IP access are:
A TCP/IP host with or without an adapter installed does not need to connect to
a fabric to manage other hosts.
A TCP/IP management host can manage all of the adapters in a remote host,
not just the ones connected to the same fabric. FC can only manage adapters
connected to the same fabric.
You can manage many more hosts since TCP/IP access is not constrained by the
boundaries of a fabric or zoning.
True board status (such as link down) is available since the FC path is not
necessary to send a status request to the remote host.
Adapter security in a TCP/IP environment is much more important since many
more hosts are available for management, and TCP/IP access is not affected by
fabrics or zoning.
Discovery of hosts in a TCP/IP environment is not automatic like FC discovery.
You must add the hosts to be managed.
You can add multiple IP addresses for the same host. However, only one of the
IP addresses will be used by OneCommand Manager to manage the adapters on
that host.
Hosts File
The TCP/IP discovery function of the OneCommand Manager application discovery
server relies on a file called the hosts file. This plain text file contains a list of hosts the
utility attempts to discover. The discovery server does not attempt to discover hosts
over TCP/IP through any other mechanisms (such as ping sweeps and broadcasts).
The hosts file is automatically created or modified when you perform any of the
following operations:
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