ClearCube Grid Center Admin Guide 4.11 - Manual (Page 37)

Grid Center 4.11 Administrator’s Guide Configuring Grid Center • 31
Discover Network Nodes
Click Use Last Discovery to pick up the machines in the lists of previously
discovered I/Ports and Blades. This option is useful when a pre-populated discovery
list is available, because it avoids a potentially lengthy discovery process. If you
migrated your Discovery lists, click Use Last Discovery to restore these network
nodes to the Authentication database.
Click Add New Blades to discover new Blades on the network and populate the
Authentication database with them. Click Add New I/Ports to discover new I/Ports on
the network and populate the Authentication database with them. These nodes are
added to the existing entries in the Authentication database.
The Blades and I/Ports are listed in the Authentication database in the following order:
• Blades, alphanumerically
• I/Ports, alphanumerically after the list of Blades
On the original discovery, Blades are identified by their Windows host names or by
their IP addresses, and I/Ports by their MAC addresses. You may want to change
these names for easier identifiability.
Configure the Consoles as Trusted Machines
A trusted machine is a system that is assumed to be safe to send data, snapins, and
operating system updates to the I/Ports without requiring authentication or a
challenge/response exchange. By default, the Consoles are the trusted machines for
the I/Ports. More systems can be added as trusted machines in this fashion. Trusted
machines can also be configured through Grid Center after the I/Ports have been
discovered. By default, the Consoles are the trusted machines for the I/Port. More
systems can be added as trusted machines.
The procedure described in Installing the I8800 I/Port Client on page 10 shows one
way to configure trusted machines. They can also be configured through Grid Center
once the I/Ports have been discovered. The procedure in the I/Ports section on page
34 discusses this.
Add Authentication Data
Once the Authentication database is populated, user authentication data can be
added. User/password information can be added one record at a time, or replicated
one page at a time. Since the Grid Center administrator will be the primary user of this
database, it makes sense to methodically set up this data.