How do I determine adapter type remotely?

[Sean OB_1]

Hello!

Is there an easy way to termine what adapter type is installed in a machine remotely?

I need to know if a fibre channel card is an A5158A and can't physically get to the box at the moment.

TIA

[melvyn burnard]

use the ioscan command and see if that reports the card type (it should)

[Sean OB_1]

Ioscan just reports that it's a Tachyon card, but not the model #.

[John Poff]

Hi Sean,

We have a mix of A5158A and A6795A cards in one of our boxes. I played with using the 'fcmsutil' command and it looks like the 'Device ID' field might help. On the A5158A cards it returns 0x001028 and for the A6795A it returns 0x001029. It is just a hack I played with and I don't know if that field is reliable, but it does seem to return the '1028' consistently for the A5158A cards. Maybe one of the real HP wizards can add something to this.


# fcmsutil /dev/td0

Vendor ID is = 0x00103c
Device ID is = 0x001028
TL Chip Revision No is = 2.3



JP

[melvyn burnard]

what OS version, and which model system?

[Sean OB_1]

RP54x and 11.0

[Kristopher March]

Have you tried using the fcmsutil?
You'll need the correct device file, usually /dev/td# or /dev/fcms# . fcmsutil with the "stat" argument might give you the card model. But I've also heard that the 5158 driver is used by more than one card.

Here is a link to manpages for fcmsutil, since I cannot get it to display on my server here at work.
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90681/B2355-90681_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90681/00/00/79-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90681/00/00/79-toc.html&searchterms=clear_stat&queryid=20020628-111241

Example: #fcmsutil /dev/td1 stat

[Robert Thorneycroft]

The easiest way I know is just to call stm from an X station, alternatively you can call cstm or mstm from console (but this is a little more awkward). Then just look for your Fibre Channel adadpter in the graphic display.

Mine are displayed as HP5158a_Tachyon_TL which are the A5158A cards you are after.

Hope this helps,

Kind regards,

Robert Thorneycroft

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

As said before, fcmsutil/tdutil will show you that information.

tdutil /dev/td0

...
TL Chip Revision No is = 2.3
..

tdutil /dev/td2

...
XL2 Chip Revision No is = 2.3
..


In the above TL is 5158A and XL2 is 6795A.

-Sri