Add NAS Server

Field Name

Description

Network Name

Enter the network name of the NAS server you want to add.

Data Manager Agent

Select the operating system of the machine that contains the agent that will gather information about the NAS filer.

Accessible from

Select the agent that you want to use to "discover" the NAS filer. This drop-down list will only display agents that are:

• running under the operating system selected in the Data Manager Agent field.
• located on Windows and/or UNIX machines that are accessible to the NAS filers (agents are not located on the NAS filers themselves):
• Windows: agents are located on Windows machines within the same domain as NAS filers
• UNIX/Linux: agents are located on UNIX machines that have NFS imports for the filesystems within the NAS filers

SNMP Community

(optional) Enter the name of the SNMP communities that should be used when communicating with machines in your environment. If you do not enter the name of an SNMP community, the default community "public" is used. The SNMP protocol is used to contact and identify NAS filers.

Login ID

(Windows only) Enter the login ID that will be used when logging into the NAS filer.

Password

(Windows only) Enter the password that will be used when logging into the NAS filer.

OK

Click this button to verify the server for which you entered information. During this verification, the product will:

• log in to NAS filer.
• gather information about the filesystems visible on those filers to the agent. For UNIX, it gathers information about file systems that it can actually see (i.e. filesystems that are mounted to the UNIX boxes. By default, filesystems are discovered at root.). For Windows, it finds all the NAS filers that are visible through CIFS.
• determine which filesystems are visible to which agents.
• enter the NAS server information into the repository.