Deploy Dell PowerFlex v3.6.x

Configure PowerFlex Gateway properties

Configure PowerFlex Gateway properties and additional PowerFlex features, using the gatewayUser.properties file.

1. Using a text editor, open the gatewayUser.properties file, located in the following directory on the PowerFlex Gateway server:

   PowerFlex Gateway operating system	Location of gatewayUser.properties file
   Windows	C:\Program Files\EMC\ScaleIO\Gateway\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes\
   Linux	/opt/emc/scaleio/gateway/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes

2. Edit the file with the desired changes, as follows:

   Use case	Property	Action	Example
   Enable or disable the reuse of previously used devices in the following use cases: Add SDS devices that were used in a previous PowerFlex. system. (Adding them without the true flag will cause deployment failure.) Extend a system with an SDS whose devices were used in a previous system. Extend a system by adding SDSs that are already installed on hosts	add.sds.with.force.on.next.run	Default: false To enable, set to true. To disable, set to false. NOTE: After finishing and marking the deployment as complete, the flag will revert to false, so you will need to set it again for future deployments, as necessary.	add.sds.with.force.on.next.run=true
   Use a PowerFlex Gateway that did not initially deploy your PowerFlex system	mdm.ip.addresses	Add the IP addresses of the system's primary and secondary MDMs, separated by semicolons, to this property. Both management and data IP addresses must be listed.	mdm.ip.addresses=10.76.60.232;10.76.60.233;10.76.60.234;10.76.30.10;10.76.30.11;10.76.30.12
   Enable or disable the PowerFlex Installer	features.enable_IM	Default: true To disable, set to false. You can completely disable the use of the PowerFlex Installer default port, 443, by setting both this property and the features.enable_gateway property to false.	features.enable_IM=false
   Enable PowerFlex Gateway	features.enable_gateway	Default: true To disable, set to false You can disable the use of the default port, 443, by setting both this property and the features.enable_IM to false.	features.enable_gateway=false
   Enable SNMP	features.enable_snmp	Default: false To enable, set to true	features.enable_snmp=true
   Enable Secure Remote Services or email alert notifications	features.notification_method	Default: srs To disable Secure Remote Services, set to none To enable Secure Remote Services, set to srs To enable email notifications, set to email Perform additional configurations for the other email notification properties in this configuration file.	features.notification_method=srs
   Set email notification type	notifications.emailSID.1.type	Default (only option currently available): callHome	notifications.emailSID.1.type=callHome
   Set email notification SID: email sender identification (identity shown in the email's "From" field)	notifications.emailSID.1.SID		notifications.emailSID.1.SID=DDD@dell.com
   Set email notification user name, required only when email notification uses SMTP server authentication	notifications.emailSID.1.username		notifications.emailSID.1.username=user123
   Set email notification SMTP server name	notifications.emailSID.1.smtp		notifications.emailSID.1.smtp=mailhub.lss.emc.com
   Enable SMTP authenticated mode for email notification	notifications.emailSID.1.authenticate	Default: false To disable, set to false To enable, set to true In addition, configure the user name, using the property notifications.emailSID.1.username, and configure the password using REST API, as described in the Configure and Customize Dell PowerFlex	notifications.emailSID.1.authenticate=false
   Set a custom port for email notification (optional; will override default port number 25)	notifications.emailSID.1.port	Default: 25	notifications.emailSID.1.port=25
   To restrict login to LDAP users only (disable local user login)	gateway-admin.disable.local.login	Default: false To enable, set to true For more information about setting up the PowerFlex Gateway admin login credentials for using LDAP server\servers, see the PowerFlex User Roles and LDAP Usage Technical Notes.	gateway-admin.disable.local.login=true
   Change the name of the VASA Provider replica set. When there are three VASA Providers, a replica set is created during deployment to facilitate communication between VASA Providers.	vasa.provider.replica.set.name	Default: vasa-rs	vasa.provider.replica.set.name=vasa-rs
   Enable or disable monitoring of VASA Providers	features.enable_vasa_monitor	Default: true	features.enable_vasa_monitor=true
   Set the list of IP addresses for VASA Providers	vasa.provider.ips	A comma-separated list of IP addresses of all the VASA Providers. The installation process sets this property, but it can also be set manually.	vasa.provider.ips=<ip>,<ip>,...
   Set the port of the VASA Providers' REST service, in order to monitor the page http://<ip>:<port>/actuator/health	vasa.provider.monitor.port	Default: 8080	vasa.provider.monitor.port=8080
   Set the number of seconds to sleep between each sample	vasa.provider.monitor.interval.seconds	Default: 60	vasa.provider.monitor.interval.seconds=60
   When installing VASA in a VMware environment, set this property to false in order to enable extending the system with the PowerFlex Installer.	vmware	In a Linux environment, default: false. In a VMware environment, default: true When installing VASA in a VMware environment, set the value to false.	vmware=false
   When CloudIQ will be used, set the IP address of the PowerFlex presentation server.	presentationserver.ip	IP address of the PowerFlex presentation server that hosts the PowerFlex GUI	presentationserver.ip=10.76.60.200
   When LIA will use LDAP authentication on a Linux-based LDAP server, configure username DN format. For Windows-based LDAP servers, do not use this property, because internal defaults are used.	lia.ldap.initial.usernameDnFormat	Values for CN, OU and DC. CN is the user assigned to LIA OU is the name of the organizational unit DC fields are the domain parts of the Base DN	lia.ldap.initial.usernameDnFormat=CN=LIA_user,OU=group_1,DC=ldap,DC=com
   When LIA will use LDAP authentication on a Linux-based LDAP server, configure search filter format. For Windows-based LDAP servers, do not use this property, because internal defaults are used.	lia.ldap.initial.searchFilterFormat	Values for the search filter format CN is the user assigned to LIA memberOf is the organizational unit to which the user is assigned (&(objectClass=userSecurityInformation) should be used as is shown in the example	lia.ldap.initial.searchFilterFormat=(&(objectClass=userSecurityInformation)(cn=LIA_user)(memberOf=group_1))
   When LIA will use LDAP authentication on a Linux-based LDAP server, this property allows the editing of an existing configuration for an LDAP server, instead of removing the configuration from the system and adding the LDAP server from scratch.	lia.ldap.replaceExisting	true allows editing of existing LDAP parameters	lia.ldap.replaceExisting=true
   When SDCs are deployed in containers, and therefore no LIA is present, this property is required in order to ignore them during a non-disruptive upgrade.	sdc.allowNoLiaOnSDCOnlyNode	Default: false. Set this property to false when SDCs are not deployed in containers. Set this property to true when the PowerFlex environment runs with containerized SDCs (in other words, there is no LIA on these nodes).	sdc.allowNoLiaOnSDCOnlyNode=true

3. Save and close the file.
4. Restart the PowerFlex Gateway service:
   • Windows: From the Windows Services window, restart the EMC ScaleIO Gateway.
   • Linux: Type the following command:

     service scaleio-gateway restart