The storage system credentials are used to connect to the IBM® storage system or systems, which your VMware platforms use for storage
provisioning.
About this task
From the Spectrum Control Base GUI you can set or change the current storage system access
credentials that are used for accessing all the IBM storage
systems.
Important:
An identical storage admin user account with identical credentials (the same username and
password) must already be predefined on all the IBM storage
systems that you intend to use. Spectrum Control Base can use only a single system management
account for accessing all the different storage systems that you use. For storage systems,
running Spectrum Virtualize, ensure that the credentials belong to a user account with
VASAProvider role.
For more information about how to define a storage admin account
on your IBM storage systems, refer to the relevant storage
system management tools documentation.
Setting the storage credentials on Spectrum Control Base allows you to add the IBM storage systems on the next step.
Click the Settings button and select Storage credentials from the Settings menu.Figure 1. Settings button
The Storage Credentials dialog box is displayed. The dialog box
presents the currently defined storage system username in the User name
configuration box. Figure 2. Current storage system username (for all storage systems)
Enter the username and password of the storage admin user that was defined on all your IBM storage systems.
If the storage admin user account is defined on a directory
server, select the Directory account check
box. If the storage admin user account is locally-defined on the storage
system, clear the check box.
Click Apply.
What to do next
You can now start adding storage systems. Spectrum Control Base will use the credentials
that you have set in order to connect to the storage systems that you add.
Attention: During regular operation, whenever a directory-based storage admin fails to
log in (from the Spectrum Control Base side) to any storage system that is in use, Spectrum Control
Base immediately locks the storage admin user account and all storage systems become inaccessible on
the Spectrum Control Base side. This is to prevent repeated login attempt failures after which the
directory server blocks that user account. In such a case, set the storage system credentials again
to unlock the storage admin account on the Spectrum Control Base side, with either the same
credentials or with updated credentials. The equivalent action in the Spectrum Control Base CLI is
to use the force credentials options, as described in CLI – Adding or removing storage system credentials.
