Initializing steps/installation document also configurationof EMC AX4-5FX

For AX4 initialization i still use the older Navisphere Storage System Initialization Wizard, i find it easier to use than the full Unisphere. Anyway as you can see from the attached pic the process is fully automated. All you have to make sure is that your workstation is on the same subnet as where you've put the SPA/SPB network connection. The wizard will 'scan' for the new AX4s and once found will offer you the option to set the IPs, subnet and Gateway; you don't need any serial port connects. I have 24 AX4s on our site and have never once used the

serial port for anything.

Thanks for replying andy,

if the AX4-5 box is new, i think there is no IP there, so if i want to initialize ( just set the IP in SPA/SPB ) the array without any LAN switch, can i connect my workstation direct cross cable to SPA management port and have to use the unisphere initialization utility.

Masud

Hi, there is actually a default IP, but I can't remember it at the moment. Any 'old' small hub/switch will do the job for connecting the SPs and your client, problem with X-over network cable is you can only talk to one SP at a time and the intialization utility is going to prompt you for both SP IPs and if you don't give both SPs different IPs on the same subnet the initialization utility will error and not complete.

I think if you google it you can find the default IPs the SPs come with, but the utility above has always worked for me.

Thanks.

I cant find the default IP of any SP. will it do if i setup my workstation in 192.168.16.110 IP (or what IP should i put in my workstation) and put the AX4-5 management port on the same LAN switch. Then the initialization wizard will find the SPA/SPB and ask me to put new IP right???

Regards,

Masud

Hi, but that's what i said in point18 above. The box DOES come with a default IP, it's just i cannot remember what it is, that is why i suggested you google it. Someone else on here may remember it. If you find out that the default is, for example, 192.168.11.1 (i'm just making this IP up for the purposes of this example) then you just put your laptop on the same subnet, all SPs and laptop through a standalone hub/switch and then you can ping and access the AX4. All you need to ensure (as the message in the initialization utility above says) is that your connected laptop is on the same subnet. The intialization utility with find the box (no matter what IP it has) as long as it is on the same subnet. There is no such thing as 'no ip' even a 0.0.0.0 is an IP.

If you're having problems with this you're going to have to go to the serial route and then use something like hyperTerminal to talk to you, one SP at a time. The reason the serial route is recommended is because it does not use IPs to communicate with the SPs and therefore if you set the SP IPs wrong you can always fix it this way. Good luck !

My point is that if the AX4-5 box is new then there will be no IP in both SP. Then if i connect my laptop through simple hub with any subnet IP , then through the help Unisphere initialization wizard can detect the EMC autometically.

Masud