Configuring

After IBM Spectrum Control is installed, you can configure it according to the standards and requirements of your storage environment.

Starting IBM Spectrum Control
You can start IBM Spectrum Control by opening a web browser and entering a web address for the IBM Spectrum Control logon page. For example, you might enter https://storage.example.com:9569/srm.
Configuring history and data retention
Specify how long to retain the data that is collected about resources and the log files that are generated by IBM Spectrum Control. By specifying the number of weeks for history retention, you can control the amount of data that is retained and available for historical analysis and charting. The longer that you retain data, the more informative your analysis, but the more storage space that is required to store that data.
Configuring user authentication
When IBM Spectrum Control is installed, default repositories are created, which allow you to control user access to the product.
Adding customized text to the logon page
On the logon page for IBM Spectrum Control, you can show customized text when users access the GUI.
Managing a SAN without agents
You can manage a SAN when there are no agents.
Setting timeout values for the Device server
If a probe or discovery of a storage subsystem times out before the operation completes, you can increase the timeout values for the Device server.
Configuring Service Location Protocol
You can enable IBM Spectrum Control to discover a larger set of storage devices through Service Location Protocol (SLP). In addition to some of the more common SLP configuration issues, there is also information about router configuration, SLP directory agent configuration, and environment configuration.
Configuring IP addressing
This section provides information about configuring IP addressing.
Deploying Storage Resource agents
You can manage your Storage Resource agent deployments.
Configuration guidelines for 500 or more agents
You can use this information to help you manage 500 or more Storage Resource agents in IBM Spectrum Control.
Including a Storage Resource agent with a server golden image
If you use a golden operating system image to deploy new servers in your environment, you can include the Storage Resource agent on that golden image. The golden image enables the agents to start and register with the IBM Spectrum Control server automatically upon deployment. This support applies only to Storage Resource agents running in daemon mode.
Checking for a fully qualified host name
IBM Spectrum Control requires fully qualified host names. Some machines might be configured to return a short host name, such as system1 instead of a fully qualified host name, such as system1.tpc.example.com. This topic provides information on how to check for a fully qualified host name.
Granting local administrative privileges to a domain account
Automatically grant administrative privileges to Windows domain accounts. The user account for the Storage Resource agent requires local administrative rights. Because these rights are not necessarily guaranteed for domain users in a Windows domain environment, you are shown how to grant local administrative rights to domain users. Using this procedure, you do not have to manually process each machine in the domain.
Importing authentication information for a Storage Resource agent
The Storage Resource agent is installed as a non-daemon or daemon process. IBM Spectrum Control stores the authentication information to connect to the host on which the Storage Resource agent has installed for the non-daemon agent. This authentication information can be changed depending on the environment.
Installing and configuring the IBM Spectrum Control server with multiple NIC cards
If your IBM Spectrum Control server has multiple network interface cards (NIC), install the IBM Spectrum Control server using a fully qualified hostname that resolves to the IP address of NIC card you want to use. After you install the server, all incoming and outgoing communication are successfully handled.
Replacing the default SSL certificate for the Device, Alert, or Web server with a self-signed certificate
To replace the default SSL certificate for the Device, Alert, or Web server, with a self-signed, use the Keytool cmd.
Replacing the default SSL certificate for the Device, Alert, or Web server with a certificate from an external certificate authority
To replace the default SSL certificate for the device, alert, or web server, with a certificate from an external certificate authority, use the Keytool cmd.
Replacing the default SSL certificate for the Export server
You can replace the default SSL certificate for the Export server by adding the certificate and private key file to the appropriate directory and restarting the Export server.
Generating a new default self-signed SSL certificate for the Export server
You can generate a new, default self-signed SSL certificate for the Export server by using the openssl command.
Enabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for ports
IBM Spectrum Control uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure communications between IBM Spectrum Control components.
Configuring Db2, AIX, and Linux for IPv6-only environment
Use this information to configure Db2®, AIX®, and Linux® for an IPv6-only environment.