topic Re: EVA5000 and secure path problem in Disk Enclosures

EVA5000 and secure path problem

lin.chen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:02:25 GMT

Dear All,
1.Problem: HPUX+EVA5000, user install secure path software in the HPUX, and present two Vdisks(Lun0 and Lun1) to this server from EVA5000. Now the problem is:
1) Lun0 no problem;
2) Lun1,its active controller and stanby controller will be changed automatically very quickly.
3) The change can be saw in syslog.log(if you open the setting of spmgr log) and by command 'spmgr display';
A.3.0F.00F.00F
controller firmware 3.020

May 30 18:04:40 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c36t0d2. (hba:controller) td0:P5849E1AAQX08V

May 30 18:04:40 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c23t0d2. (hba:controller) td1:P5849E1AAQX08V

May 30 18:04:40 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c38t0d2. (hba:controller) td0:P5849E1AAR001T

May 30 18:04:40 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c25t0d2. (hba:controller) td1:P5849E1AAR001T

May 30 18:05:11 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c36t0d2. (hba:controller) td0:P5849E1AAQX08V

May 30 18:05:11 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c23t0d2. (hba:controller) td1:P5849E1AAQX08V

May 30 18:05:11 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c25t0d2. (hba:controller) td1:P5849E1AAR001T

May 30 18:05:11 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c38t0d2. (hba:controller) td0:P5849E1AAR001T

May 30 18:05:42 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c36t0d2. (hba:controller) td0:P5849E1AAQX08V

May 30 18:05:42 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c23t0d2. (hba:controller) td1:P5849E1AAQX08V

May 30 18:05:42 hpdb2 vmunix: CPQswsp: Active path for LUN 600508B400102D8B0000C00000EB0000 changed to c38t0d2. (hba:controller) td0:P5849E1AAR001T

Thanks a lot!Louis

Re: EVA5000 and secure path problem

Rob Leadbeater — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:07:27 GMT

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the cause of the issue, but the version of VCS on the EVA is very old. 3.020 was retired a long time ago.

You should arrange to get up to 3.110 as soon as possible.

Cheers,

Rob

Re: EVA5000 and secure path problem

Eric SAUBIGNAC — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:25:14 GMT

Bonjour,

As far I can see, you have not the latest version of secure path : A.3.0F.00F.00F. It should be at least "Secure Path v3.0F for HP-UX Service Pack 2 Patch 2" A.3.0F.02F.02F.

I just took a look at secure path download page and seen that there is a new service pack 3 :

"http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1825336&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=471465&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=7"

What is the configuration of "Preferred Path" of those vDisk ? Check in Command View EVA, on page presentation of the vdisks.

Eric

Re: EVA5000 and secure path problem

Eric SAUBIGNAC — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:33:37 GMT

Sorry, URL badly formatted :

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1825336&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=471465&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=7

Eric