Technician port

The technician port is an Ethernet port on the back panel of a Storwize® V7000 Gen2 node canister that you can use to configure the volume system.

You can use the technician port to service the node canisters.

You cannot use the technician port to install a Storwize V7000 Unified system. Run the initialization tool that is installed on an external USB flash drive for this purpose.

The technician port is the Ethernet port labeled T on the rear of the node canister. Figure 1 shows the rear of the node canister where 1 is the technician port.

Figure 1. Storwize V7000 Unified technician port

To use the technician port, plug one end of an Ethernet cable into the technician port. Then, plug the other end into the Ethernet port of a personal computer with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) configured and a web browser that is installed. Run the system configuration tool by going to address http://install with your browser. If you do not have DCHP, open a supported browser and go to the default static IP address 192.168.0.1 for the node.

Note: When your personal computer is configured with DHCP, the technician port uses DHCP to reconfigure network services on your personal computer. Software on your personal computer that was using these services might experience network problems while it is connected to the technician port. For example, selecting a link in a web page that was loaded before you connect to the technician port might result in an error message.