Dell PowerVault MD3420 - Manual (Page 49)

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NOTE: Before modifying your configuration, save a copy of your current configuration to a file (see
Saving A Configuration To A File). If you have problems with your modifications, you can use the
information in the file to restore your previous configuration.
Setting The Storage Array Password
The set storageArray command enables you to define a password for a storage array. The following
syntax is the general form of the command:
set storageArray password="password"
The password parameter defines a password for the storage array. Passwords provide added security to
a storage array to reduce the possibility of implementing destructive commands.
CAUTION: Implementing destructive commands can cause serious damage, including data loss.
NOTE: CLI commands do not have interactive warnings for destructive commands.
Unless you define a password for the storage array, anyone can run all of the script commands. A
password protects the storage array from any command that the RAID controller modules consider
destructive. A destructive command is any command that can change the state of the storage array, such
as virtual disk creation, reset, delete, rename, or change. If you have more than one storage array in a
storage configuration, each array has a separate password. Passwords can have a maximum length of 30
characters. You must put quotation marks (" ") around the password. The following example shows how
to use the set storageArray command to define a password:
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "set storageArray
password=\"1a2b3c4d5e"\;"
Setting Up SMTP And SNMP Alerts
The storage array can be set up to send automatic e-mail alert messages to specified email addresses
when specific events occur. View the current alert configuration settings using the following command:
SMcli -d -i -s -w -v -S
By default, all alert configuration settings are None.
The following example shows how to set the mail server IP and the sender address configurations for
SMTP alerts:
SMcli -m 123.45.67.892 -F
[email protected]
or
SMcli -m MyCompany.com -F
[email protected]
An example of a command to set the email alert destination and specify that only event information is to
be sent is:
SMcli -a email:[email protected]
123.45.67.89 -I eventOnly
The following example shows how to set the SNMP trap alert configuration. In this example, the trap
destination is 123.45.67.891. The storage array is 123.45.67.892, and the community name is public.
SMcli -a trap:public, 123.45.67.891 123.45.67.892
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