Mapping Hosts
Mapping hosts is part of the Host Access feature. See About Host Access for details about this feature.
You must map one host at a time, and click Apply after configuring each host.
- Navigate to Setup > Host Access > Host Connections, or click the Access button from the Setup - Host Registration screen.
- If needed, select drives to enable for host access (see Enabling Tape Drives for Host Access) and click Next.
The Setup - Connection Configuration screen displays, displaying two or three sections of items to map, as follows:
- Hosts — Displays all registered hosts.
- Partitions — Partitions will only display if the control path tape drive for the partition is enabled for host access. If the control path tape drive has a failover tape drive associated with it, then the failover tape drive must also be enabled for host access. Mapping a partition to a host allows the host to send medium changer commands to the partition through the control path tape drive.
- Devices — Displays all tape drives that are enabled for host access. Mapping a host to a tape drive gives the host access to the tape drive.
- Select a host.
The Partitions and Devices lists refresh showing the currently selected partitions and drives mapped to that host.
- Select the check boxes corresponding to partitions and/or drives to give the host access; clear the check boxes to make the partitions/drives inaccessible to the host.
- Click Apply.
- Repeat the above steps on another host if desired.
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