qlogic fibre offline

[Gerrit_1]

Hi,

I'm having a system with 2 qlogic fibercards
installed. (type : QLA2340)

less /proc/scsi/qla2300/1
Host adapter:loop state=

less /proc/scsi/qla2300/2
Host adapter:loop state=

How can I put one fibercard off-line commandline ?

Tx

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I know of no OS utility that does that.

Depending on your server provider, they may provide a gui utility that lets you configure or unconfigure qlogic cards.

Last resort is qlogic's website.

Knowing the server maker would be helpful in this regard.

SEP

[Uwe Zessin]

You might want to take a look at the QLogic "SANsurfer" utility whether it contains that functionality. Else, you could disable the Fibre Channel switch port.

[Delrish · Accepted solution]

You can remove its module with rmmod.
Also, there is a file under /etc called modules.conf. you can comment the line that belongs to you FC and reboot the servers.As soon as your server coming up, that FC will not be operational.

Alireza

[dirk dierickx]

why would you want to put them offline?
anyway, afaik, each card needs a driver, so if you have 2 fc's you'll have the modules loaded 2 times. to disable one of them, unload the corresponding module.