HPSS Installation Guide September 2002 249Release 4.5, Revision 2Chapter 6 HPSS Configuration6.1 OverviewThis chapter provides instructions for creating the configuration data to be used by the HPSSservers. This includes creating the server configuration, defining the storage policies, and definingthe storage characteristics. The configuration data can be created, viewed, modified, or deletedusing the HPSS SSM GUI windows. Refer to Appendix F: Additional SSM Information (page 525) formore information on how to use SSM.To create or modify the HPSS configuration data, we recommend that the administrator be familiarwith the information described for the HPSS planning process as documented in Chapter 2. Theprocedures described in this chapter assume that the HPSS installation and infrastructureconfiguration have been completed.6.1.1 HPSS Configuration RoadmapThe following steps summarize the configuration for the HPSS system. It is very important that thesteps be performed in the order listed. Each step is discussed in more detail in the referencedsection.1. Configure and start up SSM (Section 6.2: SSM Configuration and Startup on page 252)2. Create global configuration (Section 6.3: Global Configuration on page 255)3. Create storage subsystem configuration (Section 6.4: Storage Subsystems Configuration onpage 259)4. Create a basic configuration entry for each HPSS server (Section 6.5: Basic Server Configura-tion on page 262)5. Configure HPSS storage policies (Section 6.6: HPSS Storage Policy Configuration on page279)6. Configure HPSS storage characteristics (Section 6.7: HPSS Storage Characteristics Configura-tion on page 305)7. Update global and storage subsystem configurations (Section 6.3: Global Configuration onpage 255 and Section 6.4: Storage Subsystems Configuration on page 259)
