Initial Setup Wizard

The Initial Setup Wizard

This help page is one of a set of related help pages that explain the tasks that you can complete using the Navigator 2 wizards. Click here to see the overview of all the Navigator 2 wizards. For help on using the Initial Setup wizard, continue below.

This help page provides information to guide you through the features and basic operations of the Initial Setup wizard. This wizard guides you through the following tasks:

Introduction > Set up Email Alert > Set up Management Ports > Set up Host Ports > Set Up Spare Drive (AMS only) > Set up Date & Time > Confirm > Finish
Making Additional Changes

Introduction (back to top)

The introduction page lists the tasks that can be completed by this wizard. Click Next > to continue to the next screen and begin the setup process.

NOTE: The settings you make on the screens in this wizard are not saved until you complete the wizard settings and select Confirm on the last Confirm screen in this wizard.

Set up Email Alert (back to top)

This dialog box sets up Navigator 2 so that if an error occurs in the array, it will send an email report describing the error to as many as three email addresses that are entered here.

To set up email notification:

Click Enable. The fields in this dialog box are now enabled and you can enter data in them. The following table lists the fields in the dialog box and what to enter in them.

Field	Information to Enter
Domain Name.	Enter the domain name of the mail server. Example: hds.com. Domain names are appended to email addresses that do not contain one.
Mail Server Address	Enter the IP address of the email server that will route the email messages to the email addresses listed in this dialog box. This is the email address or IP address that identifies your array as the source of the email.
From Address.	Enter a From email address. This email address will appear on the distributed email messages. This enables the users who receive the reports to quickly identify the array from which the messages came.
Send To Address.	Enter up to three email addresses of people to whom the alerts will be sent.
Reply To Address.	Optionally enter an email address where replies to messages sent from the server can be sent.

Click Next> to exit this screen and open the Set up Management Ports screen.

Set up Management Ports (back to top)

The management ports allow direct access to the controllers in the array. When this screen is displayed, Navigator 2 checks the array and fills in the default values for the selected array. You can use these settings successfully, but you can change the values if needed.

To use the default IP addresses, select Set Manually for the controller(s) that you want to use with a static IP address..
To use other static IP addresses, select Set Manually for the controller(s) that you want to use with a static IP address and enter the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway.
To let the system find and use any available IP address for the management port(s), click Use DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) on the controller(s) that you want to use that way.
To use the default negotiation between the controller and the host, leave the Auto setting as is. Otherwise select the speed and duplex mode that the controller will use to communicate with the host. The options are:

Speed	Duplex Mode
1000Mbps	Full
100 Mbps	Full
100 Mbps	Half
10Mbps	Full
10Mbps	Full

If you know what the communication setting of the host is, you can optionally set the negotiation speed and mode of the management port(s) to match. If you do not know the communication setting on the host, leave the setting at Auto and let the controller query the host and set the port to the appropriate speed and duplex mode.

When you have completed the settings, click Next> to continue to the next screen. Note that the settings you have made are not saved until you complete the wizard settings and select Confirm on the last screen of the wizard.

Set up Host Ports (back to top)

As with the management ports, Navigator 2 queries the ports and lists the current network settings in the dialog box.

To use the default settings, click Next> to continue to the Date & Time screen..
To change the settings, edit the appropriate fields as needed, then click Next> to continue to the Date & Time screen.

NOTE: For iSCSI Ports settings, IP addresses are required in all IP address fields, but subnet masks and default gateways are not required.

Set Up Spare Drive (AMS only) (back to top)

This page sets the spare drive of the RAID group.

Choose one or more drive in Available Drives by selecting the check boxes for each drive you want to set up as a spare and click NEXT >.

NOTE: You must select the same drive type, SAS or SATA, for the RAID group you are sparing. The drive capacity selected must be greater than, or equal to, the capacity of the drives being spared.

After Completing your settings, click Next> to continue to the Set up Date & Time screen.

Set Up Date and Time

The Set Up Date & Time page sets the real time clock (RTC) in the array. The date and time information is used to timestamp logs and events in the array.

Select the method of setting the date and time and enter the appropriate date and time for your location.

Select Set Automatically to use the date and time settings from the server on which Navigator 2 is installed.
Select Set Manually, and enter the date and time for your location.
Select Do not setting to use the date and time that is currently set in the array clock.

Click Next> to continue to the confirmation pages.

NOTE: You can also set Time Zone and NTP (Network Time Protocol) after finishing the Initial Setup Wizard. See the Set up Date & Time help page for instructions.

NOTE: Both the NTP and the Edit Date and Time dialog boxes can be used to set the time. The setting made last from either dialog box is the setting that will used.

Confirm (back to top)

The Confirm dialog box is divided into three pages, one for each of the settings dialog boxes described above.. View the settings on each page and click Next> to view the next page or <Back to go back to the desired screen to change settings.

NOTE: You cannot change settings on the confirmation screens. You must go back to the original screens to make changes.

After you have reviewed all of the confirmation pages, click Confirm on the fourth conformation page to save the settings. Depending on the communication speed and network activity, it make take a several seconds to save the settings. When the settings are saved, the wizard displays the Finish screen.

Finish (back to top)

In the Finish screen, click Finish to close the initial setup wizard and return to the Array window.

Making Additional Changes

To make any needed changes to the array settings, including the IP address after the Initial Setup wizard closes:

Select the array and click Edit Array. The Edit Array dialog box is displayed.
Change settings as needed and click OK to save the settings, close the Edit Array dialog box, and return to the Array window.