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7.2 Working with Management Ports ...............................................................105
7.2.1 Viewing or Changing Management Port Settings ...................................105
7.2.2 Pinging from a Management Port .....................................................106
7.3 Viewing or Changing the Ethernet Port Settings.............................................107
7.4 Working with Network Portals ..................................................................109
7.4.1 Creating Network Portals...............................................................109
7.4.2 Deleting a Network Portal..............................................................110
7.4.3 Pinging from a Network Portal ........................................................111
7.5 Grouping and Ungrouping Ports.................................................................112
7.5.1 Grouping Ports............................................................................113
7.5.2 Ungrouping Ports.........................................................................115
7.5.3 Removing Ports from a LAG............................................................115
7.6 Working with VLANs...............................................................................116
7.6.1 VLAN-Enabling a Port....................................................................117
7.6.2 Removing a Port from a VLAN .........................................................117
7.6.3 VLAN-Enabling a Group .................................................................117
7.6.4 Removing a Group from a VLAN.......................................................117
Chapter 8 Performing System Actions.......................................................................................................119
8.1 Adding an xStack Storage........................................................................119
8.2 Removing an xStack Storage.....................................................................120
8.3 Force System Failover ............................................................................121
Chapter 9 Best Practices..............................................................................................................................123
9.1 Saving Configuration Settings ...................................................................124
9.2 Resetting Display Preferences...................................................................124
9.3 Working with Firewalls...........................................................................124
Chapter 10 Troubleshooting........................................................................................................................127
10.1 Downloading a System Diagnostic Capture..................................................128
10.2 Possible Problems and Recommended Corrective Actions................................129
Appendix A Menu Summary ........................................................................................................................131
Appendix B Factory Default Settings.........................................................................................................135
Appendix C Recording Your Configuration Settings..............................................................................139
C.1 Recording Volumes..............................................................................139
C.2 Recording iSCSI Initiator Access ..............................................................141
C.3 Recording Groups ...............................................................................143
C.4 Recording Network Portals....................................................................144
C.5 Recording Scheduled Tasks....................................................................145
C.6 Admin Login Password..........................................................................146
C.7 Configuration Files..............................................................................147
C.8 Management Port Settings.....................................................................148
C.9 Data Port Settings...............................................................................149
C.10 Email Settings....................................................................................150
iSNS Settings ............................................................................................150
C.12 SNMP Settings....................................................................................150