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Performing basic configuration tasks
This chapter contains procedures for performing basic switch configuration tasks using the Fabric OS CLI.
Connecting to the Command Line Interface
You can connect to the CLI either through a telnet connection or through the serial port.
Connecting with telnet
1.
Verify that the switch is connected to the IP network through the RJ-45 Ethernet port.
Switches in the fabric that are not connected through Ethernet can be managed through switches that
use IP over Fibre Channel. The embedded port must have an assigned IP address.
2.
Open a telnet connection using the IP address of the logical switch to which you want to connect.
If you telnet to the active Control Processor (CP) or log in to the active CP console, you are prompted
for the switch number when the platform is set up in dual (or multiple) switch mode. For example, the
SAN Director 2/128 does not prompt you if you are using configuration option 1, but does prompt
you if you have used configuration options 2–4. See ”
Configuring Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director
” on page 87 for details about director configuration options.
The Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 (configured with two domains) have two logical
switches (sw0 and sw1).
The login prompt is displayed when the telnet connection finds the switch in the network.
3.
Enter the account ID (defaults are
user
or
admin
) at the login prompt.
4.
Enter the password.
The default password is
password
.
If you have not changed the system passwords from the default, you are prompted to change them.
Enter the new system passwords, or press Ctrl-c to skip the password prompts.
5.
Verify that the login was successful.
The prompt displays the switch name and user ID to which you are connected.
6.
Observe the following considerations for telnet connections:
• Never change the IP address of the switch while two telnet sessions are active; if you do, your next
attempt to log in fails. To recover, gain access to the switch by one of these methods:
• Perform a fast boot using Advanced Web Tools. When the switch comes up, the telnet quota is
cleared. (For instructions on performing a fast boot with Advanced Web Tools, see the HP
StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x Advanced Web Tools administrator guide.)
• If you have the required privileges, connect through the serial port, log in as root, and use
operating system commands to identify and kill the telnet processes without disrupting
the fabric.
• For admin level accounts, Fabric OS limits the number of simultaneous telnet sessions per switch to
two. For details on session limits, see ”
Configuring the telnet interface
and maintaining user-defined accounts
Connecting through the serial port
1.
Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the switch and to an RS-232 serial port on
the workstation.
If the serial port on the workstation is RJ-45 instead of RS-232, remove the adapter on the end of the
serial cable and insert the exposed RJ-45 connector into the RJ-45 serial port on the workstation.
login: admin
password: xxxxxxx
switch:admin>