SAN Clients screen

SAN Client license only.

If NetBackup clients are configured as SAN clients, the wizard discovers those clients and displays them in this screen.

To display the Fibre Transport (FT) connections for a SAN client, click the client name.

The Fibre Transport Devices seen by the selected SAN Client window displays the following:

Table: SAN client column descriptions describes the columns for a SAN client.

Table: FT devices column descriptions describes the columns for FT devices.

To add a SAN client manually

Click Add and then enter the SAN client name in the New SAN Client dialog box.

You must first configure the SAN client.

See the NetBackup Shared Storage Guide.

To specify client-level exceptions to the default global preference settings

Click the SAN client name.
Click Preferences.
Specify the preferences in the FT Usage Preferences screen

See Fibre Transport Usage Preferences dialog box.

Table: SAN client column descriptions

Column	Description
Name	Name of the SAN client.
State	The state of FT client service or daemon: active, not active, or disabled.
Usage Preference	When to use FT media server: preferred, always, never.
Number Fibre Transport Servers	The number of FT media servers that are visible to the SAN client.

Table: FT devices column descriptions

Column	Description
Client HBA	The client host bus adapter number.
Media Server	The name of media server to which the FT pipe is connected.
Server HBA	The HBA number of the media server.
Server LUN	The logical unit number of the media server.
Device State	The state of the FT device from the client: online or offline.