Enabling SnapDrive to communicate through the Windows Firewall

If the Windows Firewall is enabled on your host, you need to configure it to allow SnapDrive for Windows communications. The Windows Firewall is enabled by default in Windows Server 2008.

Steps

1. Navigate to Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Allow a program through Windows Firewall > Exceptions.
2. If you will be using HTTP or HTTPS, select the World Wide Web Services (HTTP) or Secure World Wide Web Services (HTTPS) checkboxes.
3. Click Add program.
4. Click Browse and browse to C:\Program Files\NetApp\SnapDrive\, or to wherever you installed SnapDrive if you did not use the default location.
5. Select SWSvc.exe and click Open, then click OK in the Add a Program window and in the Windows Firewall Settings window.
   Note: If Windows Firewall is enabled on your SnapDrive host and you want to use the -m option in the command-line interface to execute a command from a remote host, you must add sdcli to the allowed programs list for Windows Firewall. Follow the same procedure as for adding SWSvc.exe.

6. To verify that SWsvc.exe and sdcli.exe are in the list of inbound rules, in MMC, navigate to Windows Firewall > Inbound Rules.