Prohibiting host access, Creating an ldev group – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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8.

In the T-VOL/S-VOL box, select Enable or Disable.

Select Enable if you want make volumes in the security group usable as secondary volumes
(copy destination volumes) for copy operations.

Select Disable if you want make volumes in the security group unusable as secondary
volumes (copy destination volumes) for copy operations.

9.

Click Add. Information about the new security group is added to the Security Group List table
and is displayed in blue.

10. Click OK. At this point, the settings in the window have not been applied to the storage system.
11. Click Apply in the Volume Security for Mainframe window. A message appears asking whether

to apply the settings to the storage system.

12. Click Yes. The settings are applied to the storage system.

Registering a Host Group and an LDEV Group in a Security Group

After classifying a security group as an access group, the next (and the last) task is to register the
host group and LDEV group into the security group. When you finish registration, the volumes in
the LDEV group are secured and can be accessed only by hosts in the host group. Other hosts
cannot access the volumes

CAUTION:

Before applying security, confirm which hosts are performing I/O operations on

volumes in access groups. If there are hosts are performing I/O operations on volumes in access
groups to which the hosts do not belong, you must stop the I/O operations before applying security.

Procedure 20 To register a host group and an LDEV group into a security group

1.

Confirm that you are in Modify mode.

2.

In the Volume Security for Mainframe window, double-click an LDKC number.

3.

Right-click an LDEV group. A pop-up menu appears.

4.

Select Specify, then Security Group, from the pop-up menu. The Select Security Group dialog
box opens with a list of hosts.

5.

Use the Select Security Group list to select the security group in which you want to register a
host group and an LDEV group.

6.

Use the Host Group list to select the host group that you want to register in a security group.

7.

Use the LDEV Group list to select the LDEV group that you want to register in a security group.

8.

Click Apply in the Volume Security for Mainframe window. A message appears asking whether
to apply the settings to the storage system.

9.

Click Yes. The settings are applied to the storage system.

Prohibiting Host Access

Use the procedures in this sectiontopic to prohibit all the hosts from accessing specified volumes.

Creating an LDEV Group

To specify volumes to be secured, you must create an LDEV group and register the volumes in the
LDEV group.

The following procedure explains how to create an LDEV group. For details on how to register
volumes in an LDEV group, see Registering Volumes in an LDEV Group.

CAUTION:

When creating an LDEV group, it is strongly recommended that you click Apply in

the Volume Security for Mainframe window, as described in the last step of the following procedure.
If you forget to click Apply, you might lose the LDEV group when you encounter an error in
registering the LDEV group. See Registering a Host Group and an LDEV Group in a Security Group.

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