How to identify network card

[Ahmed_58]

Good day all,
New server installed, HP-UX 11.11i, with 3 FC network cards each has 2 ports, two ports already used, connected to SAN switch for storage, 4 ports free now I need to know physically which card is which? so I can connect the FC cable and configure, see attach for lanscan display.

regards, Ahmed

[Ermin Borovac]

# rad -q

will help you correlate slot numbers with device paths.

[Ahmed_58]

Hi Ermin,
The display shows;
Slot Path â
â 0-0-0-3 0/4/1 â
â 0-0-0-4 0/4/2 â
â 0-0-0-5 0/5/1 â
â 0-0-0-6 0/5/2 â
â 0-0-0-7 0/2/1 â
â 0-0-0-8 0/6/1

Now how can I identify the card, from back of the server? 3 are the same?
maybe I should check with engineer.

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[Sameer_Nirmal · Accepted solution]

There 2 Kinds of card installed in the server. AB352-60001 card is Core IO Lan card with 2 ports 0/1/2/0 and 0/1/2/1. There are 3 more cards A9782-60002 installed in the server.

To know which card is ( out of those 3 )which as they look similar, you can differentiate them based on their PCI slot h/w paths e.g. 0/2/1/0/6/0

Refer the maintenance manual of the server model you have at http://docs.hp.com.

[SANTOSH S. MHASKAR]

Hi,


1] U have ioscan output, in that H/W path is
mentioned. Just check physically on server for this
H/W path . Also only 1 lan is configured in ur system.


2] To check other lans physically, assign
a dummy IP address to one of the lan and ping
one of the host on ur network from server
then connect a lan cable one by one to spare ports and see the response of ping command.


-Santosh

[Andrew Young_2]

Just a further note on IO cards with dual ethernet interfaces, interface 0 is the lower of the two ethernet adaptors, interface 1 the higher.

Regards

Andrew Y

[John Guster]

ioscan -fn save output to a file. search FC interface device to see there are any disks etc are connect to it; /opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil /dev/td0 assuming td1 is the FC device file, this will tell is the FC interface is online or not.
Hope help.