Hard address settings, Select the [set all addressing hard] button, Soft address settings – HP Tape Library Interface Manager Software User Manual

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62 Management Operations

Chapter 3

Hard Address Settings

If you want to use the recommended Hard address settings:

Caution

Restarting an interface card during this process will stop any

data flowing through that interface card, so any backup in

progress will fail.

1. Select the [Set All Addressing Hard] button.
2. Select

the

[Apply] button to implement these Future settings to the

appropriate Fibre Channel interface card. Only the interface cards that

are marked as Restart, will have those settings take effect immediately.

Soft Address Settings

There are some conditions that require the interface cards to be set to Soft

addressing. This is easily done for all of the interface cards at once:

Caution

Restarting an interface card during this process will stop any

data flowing through that interface card, so any backup in

progress will fail.

1. Select

the [Set All Addressing Soft] button to set all of the Future Settings

to soft mode.

2. Select

the

[Apply] button to implement those Future settings to the

appropriate Fibre Channel interface cards.

3. Only the interface cards that are marked as Restart will have those

settings take effect immediately.

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