Before you begin
Before you can log in to the cluster for the first time, you must define and create the cluster
in IBM® Storage Defender® Data Protect.
To complete this procedure, you must use the login credentials for the
cluster management account, which are the credentials that were
originally used to register with IBM Storage Defender.
About this task
Connecting a cluster to Data Management is also
referred to as a claim. A claim is the process of defining a cluster to
Data Management.
Procedure
This task takes about five minutes to complete.
Important: When you create a
new Data Protect cluster, you will not be able to
view and manage the cluster in IBM Storage Defender Data Management Service until you
complete the steps in this procedure.
- After you initiate the Data Protect
cluster creation process, wait until the cluster login page is available. Click the URL that is
displayed on the Cluster Setup Status page, but do not log
in.
- To associate the cluster with Data Management, you must run the
claim_to_ibm
script by completing these
steps:
- Download the
claim_to_ibm.tar
script from IBM
Documentation by right-clicking claim_to_ibm.tar and saving it to the
Downloads directory on your local
system.
Note: The claim_to_ibm.sh
script runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Subsystem for Linux®. This script uses cURL,
which is an open source REST command-line tool that can be downloaded from the internet at no
cost.
- Install
cURL
. To check whether cURL
is already
installed, issue the command curl -v
from the terminal. If a version number is
returned, cURL
is already installed.
- Extract the
claim_to_ibm.tar
file that you downloaded in step 2.a by issuing the following command from the
terminal:
- Run the
claim_to_ibm.sh
script by issuing the following command from
the terminal:
./claim_to_ibm.sh -s=cluster_ip_address
Where
cluster_ip_address
is the IP address for the cluster.
Example:
./claim_to_ibm.sh -s=mycluster.mycompany.com
- When the script finishes running, a cluster URL is
displayed.
- From a web browser, open the cluster URL. Refresh the page and sign in by using the
default credentials:
- Username: admin
- Password: admin
If you previously logged in to the cluster URL and you already changed the default password,
enter your credentials and skip to step 9.
- If this is your first time signing in, review and accept the End User License
Agreement.
- From the Cluster Management page, select Manage in Helios
SaaS and click Connect to Helios SaaS.
- From the License page, select Full Access
Permissions, and click Continue.
- From the Cohesity Support Portal page, click MyCohesity
Login. Specify the login credentials for the cluster
management account.
Important: To log in and associate a cluster with Data Management, you must specify the cluster management
account credentials that were originally used to register with
IBM Storage Defender. You cannot connect a cluster to
Data Management by using any other credentials.
- You are prompted to change the default password.
The
Summary page for the Data Protect cluster is displayed.
- To verify that the cluster was successfully connected, log in to Data Management and click
. The
Cluster Management page is displayed.
If the cluster connection was successful, the Connection column displays a
Connected status for the cluster.
- Repeat this procedure on each cluster that you want connected to Data Management.