topic Re: Autopath error in Operating System - HP-UX

Autopath error

Tom Kunkel — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:53:37 GMT

New HPUX box, first install.

Try to run the autopath

autopath discover
AUTOPATH : Discovery of New Paths / LUNs will be effective only if ioscan and insf -e are executed prior to autopath discover
AUTOPATH : Discover in Progress ...

Autopath: /dev/hpap:No such file or directory
AUTOPATH : No such file or directory

I've done all the pre-req's (server's zoned, has a LUN, can see the disk from ioscan, have run insf, rebooted a couple of times). Any ideas?

Re: Autopath error

Mel Burslan — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:53:11 GMT

I amnot a san expert but I think you have a corrupt AutoPath installation in your hands. In order to use this product, you need to have a character device at /dev/hpap. Here is my case:

root#ll /dev/hpap
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 0x000000 Jan 30 15:46 /dev/hpap

try re-installing the AutoPath software is my suggestion.

Re: Autopath error

Tom Kunkel — Thu, 04 May 2006 17:18:00 GMT

Google'd it.

Fix was:

remove autopath
reboot
install ums
reboot
install patches
reboot
install autopath
reboot

Phew!