This topic provides information for starting an AIX client.
Context
You can use the setupstclient command
or a series of manual steps to start an AIX client. The client driver is automatically
started by starting the operating system.
Steps
- If you are using the setupstclient command:
- Type setupstclient and press
Enter to start the setup guide.
- Enter the appropriate information, when prompted, to set up
the virtual client.
- To manually start the client:
- Create a directory to use as the mount
point (for example, mkdir /mnt/sansfs).
- Change to the base/client/bin directory, where base is
the base directory (for example, chdir /usr/tank/client/bin).
- Type stfsdriver –load <PATH to kernel extension> /stfs and
press Enter to load the kernel extension into AIX.
- Type ./stfsclient –create [client_name]
server_IP_address[:port] –converter 8859-1 [–device=kmnamekernel_extension] and
press Enter to create an instance of the SAN File System client, called virtual
client, where
- client_name
- The name of the SAN File System client. The default is the host name of
the client machine.
- server_IP_address
- The IP address of the metadata server machine.
- port
- The port of the metadata server machine.
The default port is 1700.
- kernel_extension
- The path to kernel extension, as previously specified to the stfsdriver command,
or kernel extension identifier that was returned by the stfsdriver command.
- Type ./stfsmount client_name mount_point and
press Enter to mount the specified file system, where
- client_name
- The name of the client that you specified in step 2.d.
- mount_point
- The directory that you specified in step 2.a.