Installation : Discovery and login

Discovery and login
You can start the MegaRAID Storage Manager software from a remote Windows/ Linux machine that has the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installed in complete mode.
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Figure 2 Configure Host
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Discovers only the local MegaRAID Storage Manager server.
Allows you to enter IP addresses of the MegaRAID Storage Manager servers and discovers only those servers. You can enter an IP address in the Enter IP Address field and click Add. The server corresponding to the IP address appears in the Favorite list.
Discovers all the MegaRAID Storage Manager servers available in the network.
Discovers the local MegaRAID Storage Manager server and all the available ESXi servers in the network.
 
*NOTE  
On some Windows machines, the discovery of VMware ESXi servers fail as a result of a bug in the third- party application that is used for discovery. This is caused by one of the Windows servers in the network which contains a service called IBM SLP SA, which gets installed along with the IBM Director. If we stop this service on all the Windows servers in the network, the MegaRAID Storage Manager will be able to discover all the ESXi servers.
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Click Save Settings. A confirmation dialog appears asking you to confirm your settings.
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Click OK in the confirmation dialog to start the discovery process. After the discovery process is completed, the servers appear in the Host View dialog.
 
*NOTE  
Do not enter the VMware ESXi server’s IP address in the IP Address field. Instead enter a valid MegaRAID Storage Manager server’s IP address and select the Display all the systems in the Network of the local server option in Figure 2.
 
 
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Double click a server. The following figure appears.
Figure 3 Login on the Host Server
 
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Enter the root account name and password of the host in the User Name and Password fields respectively.
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Click Login.
After you log in, the dashboard view provides an overview of the system and covers the properties of the virtual drives and the physical drives, the total capacity, configured capacity, unconfigured capacity, background operations in progress, the MegaRAID Storage Manager software features and their status (enabled or disabled), and the actions you can perform, such as creating a virtual drive and updating the firmware.