Dot Hill Systems II 200 FC Manuale Utente

SANnet II 200 FC, SATA, and SATA SE Array Installation, Operation, and Service Manual • March 2005

If you are planning to access your array over an IP network or through a terminal 
server and only want to connect through a serial port for the initial configuration of the 
array, it is not necessary to configure a serial port connection from your IBM host. For 
convenience, installers frequently perform the initial array configuration using a serial 
port on a portable computer.

If you want to use a Microsoft Windows portable computer for this initial array 
configuration, see “Setting Up the Serial Port Connection” on page F-1 for Windows 
2000 systems.

If you prefer to connect through a serial port on your IBM server, consult the hardware 
information for your IBM host system to locate a serial port you can use for 
configuring the array. The system documentation also tells you what device file to use 
to access that port. Then set the serial port parameters on the server. See “Configuring 
a Host COM Port to Connect to a RAID Array” on page 4-26 for the parameters to use.

The next section also shows how to use the Kermit utility to set these 

parameters.

H.2

Accessing the Firmware Application From an 
IBM Server Running AIX

The RAID controller can be configured from the host system by means of terminal 
emulators such as Kermit.

You can also monitor and configure a RAID array over an IP network with the 

SANscape program after you assign an IP address to the array. For details, see “Setting 
Up Out-of-Band Management Over Ethernet” on page 4-28 and refer to the SANscape 
User’s Guide.

To access the controller firmware through the serial port, perform the following steps:

1. Connect the serial null modem cable to the disk array and to the serial port on the IBM 

server.

A DB9-to-DB25 serial cable adapter is shipped with the disk array for 

connecting the serial cable to a DB25 serial port on your host if you do not have a DB9 
serial port.