Adding storage systems and clusters

Before you can use System Manager to manage your storage systems and objects, you have to add them to System Manager. You can also add storage systems that are in a high-availability (HA) configuration.

Before you begin

•	Your storage systems must be running a supported version of Data ONTAP.

•	If your storage system is running a Data ONTAP release in the Data ONTAP 8.0 release family, SSL must be enabled on the storage system.

About this task

If you are adding one of the storage systems from an HA pair, the partner node is automatically added to the list of managed systems. If a high-availability partner node is down, you can add the working storage node.

Steps

1.	From the Home tab, click Add.

2.	Type the fully qualified DNS host name, or the IPv4 address of the storage system.

You may specify the IPv6 address of the storage system, if you are adding a system that is running a supported version of Data ONTAP 7-Mode.

3.	Click the More arrow.

4.	Select the method for discovering and adding the storage system:

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SNMP

You must specify the SNMP community and SNMP version.

If the storage system is running a Data ONTAP release in the Data ONTAP 7.2 release family, use SNMP version 1.

•	Credentials

You must specify the user name and password.

5.	Click Add.