The storage system credentials are used to connect to the IBM® storage system or systems, which your cloud interfaces use for storage
provisioning.
About this task
From the Spectrum Connect 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 Connect 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 Connect
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 Connect 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 theSpectrum Connect side) to any storage
system that is in use, Spectrum Connect immediately
locks the storage admin user account and all storage systems become inaccessible on the Spectrum Connect 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 theSpectrum Connect side, with either the same credentials or
with updated credentials. The equivalent action in the Spectrum Connect CLI is to use the force credentials
options, as described in CLI – Adding or removing storage system credentials.
