Hard address settings, Select the [set all addressing hard] button, Soft address settings – HP Tape Library Interface Manager Software User Manual
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62 Management Operations
Chapter 3
Hard Address Settings
If you want to use the recommended Hard address settings:
Caution
Restarting an interface card during this process will stop any
data flowing through that interface card, so any backup in
progress will fail.
1. Select the [Set All Addressing Hard] button.
2. Select
the
[Apply] button to implement these Future settings to the
appropriate Fibre Channel interface card. Only the interface cards that
are marked as Restart, will have those settings take effect immediately.
Soft Address Settings
There are some conditions that require the interface cards to be set to Soft
addressing. This is easily done for all of the interface cards at once:
Caution
Restarting an interface card during this process will stop any
data flowing through that interface card, so any backup in
progress will fail.
1. Select
the [Set All Addressing Soft] button to set all of the Future Settings
to soft mode.
2. Select
the
[Apply] button to implement those Future settings to the
appropriate Fibre Channel interface cards.
3. Only the interface cards that are marked as Restart will have those
settings take effect immediately.