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# View initiators

Unisphere host management includes the management of initiators and initiator groups. An initiator group is a container of one or more host initiators.

## Prerequisites

See Roles and associated permissions to determine the user roles that can perform this task.

## About this task

Each initiator group can contain up to 64 initiator addresses or 64 child IG names. Initiator groups cannot contain a mixture of host initiators and child IG names.

## Steps

1. Select the storage system.
2. Select Hosts > Initiators.
3. Use the Initiators list view to view and manage initiators.

   The properties and controls that are displayed in the view vary depending on the storage system version and on how you arrived at this view.

   Initiator—World Wide Name (WWN), or iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN) ID of the initiator, or NVMe/TCP ID of the initiator.

   Dir:Port—Storage system director and port that is associated with the initiator, for example: FA-7E:1

   Alias—User-defined initiator name

   Logged In—Flag indicating if the initiator is logged into the fabric: Yes/No

   Protocol— Associated protocol

   On Fabric—Flag indicating if the initiator is on the fabric: Yes/No

   Port Flag Overrides—Flag indicating if the initiator has overridden any port flags: Yes/No

   Host—Host name associated with the initiator

   Host Groups—Number of host groups associated with the initiator

   Masking Views—Number of masking views associated with the initiator, including the masking views that are associated with any cascaded relationships.

   Host ID—Host ID for NQN initiator

   IP Address—IP address for the initiator

   To view additional details of the initiator, click .

   The following controls are available:

   Set Attributes— Set initiator attributes

   Set Host Flags— Set initiator port flags

   Rename Alias— Rename initiator aliases

   Replace Initiator— Replace initiators

   Remove From Login History— Remove initiator from login history