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7.2 Working with Management Ports
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7.2.1 Viewing or Changing Management Port Settings
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7.2.2 Pinging from a Management Port
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7.3 Viewing or Changing the Ethernet Port Settings
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7.4 Working with Network Portals
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7.4.1 Creating Network Portals
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7.4.2 Deleting a Network Portal
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7.4.3 Pinging from a Network Portal
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7.5 Grouping and Ungrouping Ports
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7.5.1 Grouping Ports
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7.5.2 Ungrouping Ports
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7.5.3 Removing Ports from a LAG
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7.6 Working with VLANs
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7.6.1 VLAN-Enabling a Port
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7.6.2 Removing a Port from a VLAN
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7.6.3 VLAN-Enabling a Group
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7.6.4 Removing a Group from a VLAN
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Chapter 8 Performing System Actions
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8.1 Adding an xStack Storage
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8.2 Removing an xStack Storage
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8.3 Force System Failover
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Chapter 9 Best Practices
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9.1 Saving Configuration Settings
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9.2 Resetting Display Preferences
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9.3 Working with Firewalls
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Chapter 10 Troubleshooting
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10.1 Downloading a System Diagnostic Capture
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10.2 Possible Problems and Recommended Corrective Actions
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Appendix A Menu Summary
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Appendix B Factory Default Settings
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Appendix C
Recording Your Configuration Settings
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C.1
Recording Volumes
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C.2
Recording iSCSI Initiator Access
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C.3
Recording Groups
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C.4
Recording Network Portals
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C.5
Recording Scheduled Tasks
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C.6
Admin Login Password
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C.7
Configuration Files
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C.8
Management Port Settings
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C.9
Data Port Settings
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C.10
Email Settings
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iSNS Settings
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C.12
SNMP Settings
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