If you need to use a direct Ethernet connection to attach
a personal computer to a Lenovo Storage V7000 Gen1 node canister to run the service assistant
or to use the service CLI, use this procedure.
Follow this procedure if you are not authorized to use
a USB flash drive in your data center and when the service address of your nodes
cannot be accessed over your Ethernet network. This situation might
occur for a new installation where the default service IP addresses cannot be accessed on your network.
The default service addresses are
listed in Problem: Cannot connect to the service assistant.
Note: Do not attempt to use a directly attached Ethernet
cable to a canister that is active in a clustered
system. You might disrupt access from host applications or the management GUI. If the node is active, go to in the management GUI to set the service IP address to one that is accessible on the network.
Complete the following steps to access
a canister using a directly attached
Ethernet cable.
- Connect one
end of an Ethernet cable to Ethernet port 1 of the node canister.
Note: A cross-over Ethernet cable is not required.
- Connect the other end of the Ethernet
cable directly to the Ethernet port on a personal computer that has
a web browser installed.
- Get the service IP address of the node canister attached at step 1.
- Use the operating system tools on the computer
to set the IP address and subnet mask of the Ethernet port that is
used in step 2.
Set them to the same subnet of the node canister service
IP address.
- Point the web browser to the
service IP address for the node canister.
- Log on with the superuser password.
The default password is passw0rd.
- Set the service address of the node canister to
one that can be accessed on the network as soon as possible.
- Wait for the action to complete.
- Disconnect your personal computer.
- Reconnect the node canister to
the Ethernet network.