HP Tape Library Interface Manager Software - Manual (Page 63)

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Chapter 3
Selecting Your Own Settings
If you wish to select your own settings, then each interface card needs to be
configured separately using the following sequence for each card:
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. Choose between Hard and Soft addressing. HP recommends that Fibre
Channel interface cards be Hard addressed, except in cases where the
switch being used is unable to use Hard addressing.
2. If you selected Hard addressing, you will need to supply an address. Each
Fibre Channel interface card in a loop must have a unique address (see
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Addressing on page 29 for more details).
3. Decide if the card should be restarted when this new address setting is
applied to the selected interface card. If you check the [Restart] button,
then the interface cards will reboot when you select the [Apply] button.
Multiple interface cards will go through their restart sequence at the same
time.
4. Once you have changed the Future Settings of all of the interface cards
that you wish to change, then select the [Apply] button.
The Future Settings will be sent to all of the Fibre Channel interface cards.
Only the interface cards that have been marked as Restart will have those
settings take effect immediately.