How to configure the Fibre Channel Card_?

[Sebastian Perez]

Hi Everyone!
Hp-ux 11i, rp5470.
I have installed 2 FC Cards A6795A to a rp5470. I installed before the patch hp recomended PHKL_27751 and the driver B.11.11.09 for the new hardware PCI/HSC Fibre Channel Driver, but whe I type #ioscan -fnC fc, the system recognize the new hardware installed, but I cannot configure them from SAM, cause they don't appear there. Even in the ioscan they appear CLAIMED, but with a lanscan either appear. What I have to do to configure the FC Cards.???
Thnx

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Sebastian,

They won't appear in lanscan cos they're not LAN cards - these cards are for connecting storage to your servers, not for network connectivity. If the cards are seen OK in ioscan then they are effectively 'configured'.

What were you planning to do with them?

Duncan

[sysadm_1]

Hi,

Since it is not a LAN adapter it will not show in lanscan.
In sam also you cannot see it as a lan card.

[Michael Steele_2]

There's a special command called 'fcmsutil' for fibre channel Host Bus Adapters, or just HBA's.

Here are some basic commands:

Note your 'Local N_port_ID'

fcmsutil /dev/td1 echo -l 1 200 5

Send 5 echo packets of 200 bytes each to a remote N_Port with loop_id 1

Check further HBA info by referring to 'loss of signal and Bad Tx Char' and transmission counts via:

fcmsutil /dev/td0 state
fcmsutil /dev/td1 state
fcmsutil /dev/td? state, etc.

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Note the /dev/td0, 1, etc. Use ioscan to find these:

# ioscan -fnkC fc (* fc = fibre channel class *)

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Here's some more examples from the man page:

EXAMPLES
Print the remote port parameters using the get remote option if the driver is idle. /dev/fcms1 is the
device file and /dev/rdsk/c27t0d0 is the respective raw disk file.
fcmsutil /dev/fcms1 get remote 0x98 < /dev/rdsk/c27t0d0
Print a short listing of the statistics maintained by the driver, with /dev/td1 as the device file.
fcmsutil /dev/td1 stat -s
Send 5 echo packets of 200 bytes each to a remote N_Port with loop_id 4, with /dev/td1 as the device
file
fcmsutil /dev/td1 echo -l 4 200 5
Print a short listing of the statistics of the device whose
remote-N-Port-ID is 0x02ae4 and with /dev/td1 as the device file
fcmsutil /dev/td1 devstat 0x02ae4
Clear the device statistics of the device whose wwn is 0x100000e002219f45 and with /dev/td1 as the
device file
fcmsutil /dev/td1 clear_devstat -w 0x100000e002219f45

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

a fibre channel card is for mass storage.
You connect FC disk systems controllers to it.

You may be mixing up with a FC Networking card such as FDDI.

In the old days FC MS (Mass Storage) cards would show up claimed by lan drivers, but under a hardware path of 5 not 8.

ie:
lan 8/12.5
fcms 8/12.8

of course there was nothing you could do with the 8/12.5 interface as there was no lan interface.

Later,
Bill

[Sebastian Perez]

Thank you to everyone, I was wrong with that, but thanx for open my eyes when I was asleepping.

[Kuang Chen]

Sebastion,

I had same issue befor.e
SAM not able to create volumn group, you have use pvcreate, vgcreate command to create volumn group. After volumn group been created and than you can use SAM.

Just make sure, you should one see one disk when you use ioscan -fnC disk HSV100 HP
or HSV110 HP and run spmgr display make sure one controler active other standby.

KC

[hyun-seok kim]

In case of fc card, there's no configurable parameter

if you want to lan adapter, use A4926A,A6847A