As far as I know SM is only used to configure storage, i.e., define drives, on the DS6800. You can shut down SM and the PC it runs on and still use the drives. I too would have expected SM on a different PC to discover the configuration as long as the correct IP addresses were provided. AFAIK there is no license for SM and no handshake occurs between SM and any of the attached systems. If the DS6800 was shut down incorrectly you can experience a situation where the OS can't see the drives and a CE will have to run some special ICKDSK commands to get them back.
Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
