Depending on your system configuration, you can use an out-of-band management method or an in-band management method to manage a controller from a or from a .
A maximum of eight storage management stations can concurrently monitor an . This limit does not apply to systems that manage the storage subsystem through the .
You can use the out-of-band management method to manage a storage subsystem directly over the network through an connection, from a storage management station to the controllers. This management method lets you configure the maximum number of logical drives that are supported by your operating system and host bus adapters (HBAs).
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Storage management stations require the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) software to support the out-of-band management of storage subsystems.You can use the in-band management method to manage a storage subsystem in which the controllers are managed through an Ethernet connection from a storage management station to a host that is running host-agent software. The host-agent software receives communication from the storage management client software and passes it to the storage subsystem controllers along a Fibre Channel I/O path. The controllers also use the I/O connections to send event information back to the storage management station through the host.
When you add storage subsystems by using this management method, you need to specify only the host name or IP address of the host. After you add the specific host name or IP address, the host-agent software automatically detects any storage subsystems that are connected to that host.
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Some operating systems can be used only as storage management stations. For more information about the operating system that you are using, refer to the initial setup guide for your controller module.