Add new user information (host) pane, Registering a host's user inform, Ation on a host group – HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console Software User Manual

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6.

Click OK. Settings are applied to the array.

To return the host group setting to

, perform the same operation, except select Authentication :

Enable -> Disable in step 4.

Registering a host's user information on a host group

On a host group that performs authentication of hosts, register the user information for all hosts you
allow to connect.

1.

Start XP LUN Configuration and Security Manager Software, and display the Authentication pane
(

Figure 31

).

2.

In the Port tree, select the port or host group on which you want to register a host's user
information.

The user information for hosts currently registered on the selected port or host group appears in
the Authentication Information (Host) list.

You can register a host's user information even if the port status is

. In this case, however, the

host's registered user information is ignored.

3.

Right-click any point in the Authentication Information (Host) list, and select Add New User
Information. The Add New User Information (Host) pane appears.

Figure 63 Add New User Information (Host) pane

.

Specify the following user information for the host you want to allow to connect:

• Group Name: Host bus adapter's group name. Select one from the list. All group names of

host bus adapters connected to the selected port by the cable appear in the list.

• User Name: Host bus adapter's WWN, up to 16 characters. You can use alphanumeric

characters in a user name.

• Secret: Secret (that is, a password used in CHAP authentication) between 12 to 32 characters.

You can use alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following symbols in a secret:
. - + @ _ = : / [ ] , ~

• Re-enter Secret: Specify the secret, again, for confirmation.
• Protocol: Protocol used in the user authentication. This protocol is fixed to CHAP.

4.

Click OK. The specified host user information appears in blue in the Authentication Information
(Host) list.

5.

Click Apply. A confirmation message appears.

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