Entering the storage system credentials

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.
Note: The same operations are available from the CLI as well, as explained in CLI – Adding or removing storage system credentials.

Procedure

  1. Click the Settings button and select Storage credentials from the Settings menu.
    Figure 1. Settings button
    This image shows the 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)
    This image shows the Storage Credentials dialog box.
  2. Enter the username and password of the storage admin user that was defined on all your IBM storage systems.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.