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6.

Change the value to true to enable NAS support, as shown in the following example:

nas=true

7.

Save your changes, and then close the file.

8.

Restart the CIM extension. See the Installation Guide for information about starting CIM

extensions.

Discovery Information for HP NAS Devices on Linux

To discover an HP NAS device, enter the following information in HP SIM:

IP address or system name of the HP NAS device to discover.

User name of the HP NAS device. You must provide a privileged login.

Password used to access the HP NAS device.

Discovering NetApp NAS Devices

Keep in mind the following:

SMNP must be enabled on the NetApp NAS device before it can be discovered.

If you want to communicate with the NetApp NAS device through SSL you must set the
cimom.providers.netapp.useSSL

property to true. This is a global setting and will

cause all NetApp NAS devices to communicate using SSL. For more information, see

Enabling

SSL Communication with a NetApp NAS Device

” on page 65.

If you want the management server to be able to receive events from a NetApp NAS device, you

must add the IP address of the management server to the NetApp configuration.

Administrative HTTP access to the device can be restricted through the httpd.access and
httpd.admin.access

options. If you are restricting Administrative HTTP access, the

management server needs to be registered with the device. This is done by adding the IP

addresses of the management server to the httpd.admin.access option. For more

information, see the NetApp NAS device documentation.

Discovery Information for NetApp NAS Devices

To discover a NetApp NAS device, enter the following information in HP SIM:

IP address or system name of the NetApp NAS device you want to discover.

User name of the NetApp NAS device. You must provide a privileged login which is one of the

following:

• the root user

• a user belonging to the “Administrators” group. This is a predefined group by NetApp.
• a user belonging to a group that has the following roles: api-*, cli-*, login-http-admin, and at

least one of the following: login-console, login-telnet, login-rsh, or login-ssh

Password used to access the NetApp NAS device.

Enabling SSL Communication with a NetApp NAS Device

To enable SSL communication with a NetApp NAS device:

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