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Figure 2 Security Example 2

If no ports are registered in a host group, hosts in the host group can access volumes via ports to

which the hosts are connected.

This manual uses the term port-level security, which is a security policy for enabling hosts to access

volumes only via ports registered in host groups and thus prohibiting hosts to access the volumes via

other ports.

CAUTION:

Before you apply security, you should confirm what hosts are performing I/O operations on volumes

in access groups. If any hosts perform I/O operations on volumes in access groups that the hosts do

not belong to, you will need to stop the I/O operations before you apply security. For example, if

you attempt to apply security settings illustrated in

Figure

2, an error occurs and the attempt fails if

host4 and host5 are performing I/O operations on ldev1 . To apply the security settings, you will need

to ensure that host4 and host5 are not performing I/O operations on ldev1 .

Prohibiting All Hosts from Accessing Volumes

To prevent all the mainframe hosts from accessing volumes, you must register the volumes in a pool

group (Note that you do not need to register hosts in pool groups). For example, if you register two

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