updated: February 6, 2011

The Service Location Protocol is a service discovery protocol used to locate the devices and services in a local area network. Each device can be assigned in the network as a user agent, a service agent or a directory agent and has a unique Uniform Resource Locator. The SLP discovery must be configured to provide communication between the service agents, used to announce services and user agents that enable search for the services.

Start the System Navigator in the i5/OS operating system. Click the "Integrated Server Administration" tab and then expand the "iSCSI Connections." Select the "Service Processors" option and right-click an available service processor from the list.

Select the "Properties" from the shortcuts menu. Click on the tabs of the properties you want to change. Click the "OK" button to change the attributes of a service processor configuration.

Leave the "Use service processor connection to determine remote system enclosure identity" box empty and specify the serial number of the standalone server installation in the "Serial number" field.

Click the "Integrated Server Administration" tab and then expand the "iSCSI Connections." Select the "Remote Systems" option and right-click an available remote system configuration from the list.

Select the "Properties" from the shortcuts menu. Click on the tabs of the properties you want to change. Click the "OK" button to change the attributes of the remote system configuration.

Select the "Use enclosure identity from the service processor configuration" option to configure service processor discovery by the SLP.

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