Enabling BOM (Bill of Materials) configuration for Fibre Channel
Before you can configure Fibre Channel ports for performing backups, you must enable Fibre Channel BOM configuration from the Appliance Node-level CLI.
To enable Fibre Channel BOM:
- Use SSH Login to Node level CLI using the eth1 IP address of the node
- Run the following command:
"support bom-conf get
- To update this
bom-config.jsonfile open an NFS share by running the following command:system software share open
- Mount the above open NFS share on any available Linux Client by using the Linux command:
mount -t nfs ipaddressorfqdn:/system/inst/patch/incoming /mnt
where ipaddressorfqdn is the IP address or the FQDN that was displayed when you ran the system software share open command.
The
/mntlocation can be changed to the required location for mounting the NFS share.The
bom-config.jsonfile is copied to the/mntlocation. - Set the FC-ENABLE key value to 1. Open the
bom-config.jsonusing the vim command:vim bom-config.json
Change the FC-ENABLE key to 1 and save the file. the updated file should look similar to shown below:
- Log in to the Appliance Node-level CLI again using the eth1 IP address of the node.
- Run the following command to update configuration:
support bom-conf update
- After the file is updated, close the open NFS share:
system software share close
- Perform the same procedure on all the other nodes.
After you enable the Fibre Channel BOM on all the nodes, navigate to Monitor > Infrastructure. You can now view the Fibre channel tab.
