Redhat 5.3 with SAN Connectivity

[AZayed]

Dears,
Good day,

I was searching for a FC driver from RH 5.3. but I couldn't find any. I need the package that include hp_rescan tool.

AP770A HP 82B PCIe 8Gb FC Dual Port HBA

Thanks

[Ishwar_1]

hp_rescan tool in one of the kits that you should load install from hp. One kit for datamapper, one kit of utilities for your hba. One of kits includes fibreutils.

# rpm -qa --filesbypkg | egrep hp_rescan
fibreutils /opt/hp/hp_fibreutils/hp_rescan
fibreutils /usr/bin/hp_rescan

hp_rescan utility is in the fibreutils-3.0-3 rpm file

hp_rescan -h will give you the syntax and options for use.

[AZayed]

Thanks,
But I cannot find them online. can you post the URL ?

[S.S.]

May i know your Server Model and OS Architecture?

[AZayed]

Yes,

I have DL380 G6 running RH 5.3

Thanks

[Alzhy]

You will need Proliant Support Pack (PSP) my friend.

Download from the BSC.

[S.S.]

Hi Azayed,

Here is the link you can download
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3884083&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884082&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4006#78221

this is for i686 architecture.

Download whole PSP support pack. In PSP pack you can see the fibreutils rpm package.
then
- Login to server with root previleges
- run "rpm -ivh or
rpm -Uvh
- Check the installed package rpm -aq | grep -i fibre

[AZayed]

Hi,

I cannot install the packages.

fibreutils-2.5-4.x86_64.rpm
hp-lpfc-8.2.0.22-9.rhel5.noarch.rpm

This RPM is not supported on RHEL 5.3 or greater

error: %pre(fibreutils-2.5-4.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping fibreutils-2.5-4


What is the issue?

[AZayed]

Hi Folks,

I find out that Redhat 5.3 already have FC Card driver and FC utilities so that's why PSP don't install these on the system.

But I don't know how can I do hardware scan. is there any command like : ioscan -c lun ??

Thanks

[Alzhy]

Save to your favourite pathed tools directory (/usr/local/bin for instance) to a file named say "sacndisks"

#!/bin/ksh
#
# San FC HBAS for changes
for hba in `ls -d /sys/class/fc_host/host*`;do
FCHOST=`basename $hba`

echo "Scanning $FCHOST"
echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/${FCHOST}/scan
done


Make it executable.

Everytime you present new storage, simply:

root# scandisks
root# multipath -v2
root# multipath -ll
.. and so on and so forth.


(make sure you have HPDM Enablement kit installed too).