MegaRAID Storage Manager Online Help System

Startup and Main Windows > Logging in to a Server

Logging in to a Server

When you start a client or server installation of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software, the Select Server window appears, as shown in Figure 3. The remote servers appear, along with their IP address, operating system, and health status.

Figure 3 Select Server Window

The Select Server window shows an icon for each server on which MegaRAID Storage Manager software is installed. The servers are color-coded with the following definitions:

To log in to a server, follow these steps:

  1. Double-click the icon of the server that you want to access.
  2. The Server Login window appears.
  3. Select an access mode from the drop-down menu.
    • Select Full Access if you need to both view the current server configuration and change the configuration.
    • Select View Only if you only need to view the server configuration.
  4. Enter your user name and password, and click Login.
  5. If the computer is networked, this is the login to the computer itself, not the network login.
    If your user name and password are correct for the login mode you have chosen, the MSM main menu screen appears.

    To access servers on a different subnet, type the IP address of a server in the desired subnet where MSM is running in the box at the bottom of the Server Select screen and click Discover Host.

    For the VMware CIMOM, the server button does not denote the health of the server. The button is always green regardless of the health of the system.

    The VMware server does not show the system health and the operating system labels. It shows only the host name and the IP address of the server. When connecting to a VMware server on a different subnet, one or more Frameworks have to be running in the subnet to connect to the CIMOM.

  6. Double-click the icon of the server that you want to access.
  7. The Server Login window appears.
  8. Select an access mode from the drop-down menu.
    • Select Full Access if you need to both view the current configuration and change the configuration.
    • Select View Only if you need to only view and monitor the configuration.
    • When connected to VMware system, the Server Login screen shows only one label for access, “Full Access”. Multiple users can have full access to the VMware server.

  9. Enter your user name and password, and click Login.
  10. If the computer is networked, this is the login to the computer itself, not the network login.

  11. Enter the root/administrator user name and the password to use Full Access mode.
  12. In the Linux operating system, if you belong to the root user group, you can log in; you do not have to be a user with the user name "root."

If your user name and password are correct for the Login mode you have chosen, the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu screen appears.


DB09-000202-04  37857-02  Rev. E  October 2010
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