topic Re: qlogic fibre offline in Operating System - Linux

qlogic fibre offline

Gerrit_1 — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:43:55 GMT

Hi,

I'm having a system with 2 qlogic fibercards
installed. (type : QLA2340)

less /proc/scsi/qla2300/1
Host adapter:loop state=

less /proc/scsi/qla2300/2
Host adapter:loop state=

How can I put one fibercard off-line commandline ?

Tx

Re: qlogic fibre offline

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:09:32 GMT

Shalom,

I know of no OS utility that does that.

Depending on your server provider, they may provide a gui utility that lets you configure or unconfigure qlogic cards.

Last resort is qlogic's website.

Knowing the server maker would be helpful in this regard.

SEP

Re: qlogic fibre offline

Uwe Zessin — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:40:02 GMT

You might want to take a look at the QLogic "SANsurfer" utility whether it contains that functionality. Else, you could disable the Fibre Channel switch port.

Re: qlogic fibre offline

Delrish — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:37:07 GMT

You can remove its module with rmmod.
Also, there is a file under /etc called modules.conf. you can comment the line that belongs to you FC and reboot the servers.As soon as your server coming up, that FC will not be operational.

Alireza

Re: qlogic fibre offline

dirk dierickx — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:02:47 GMT

why would you want to put them offline?
anyway, afaik, each card needs a driver, so if you have 2 fc's you'll have the modules loaded 2 times. to disable one of them, unload the corresponding module.