Saturday, December 9, 2006

Fibre Channel Path check on AIX

I learned new command how to check SAN connectivity from UNIX box. The command is:

# datapath query device

It this command successfully execute, it will show the output something look like this:

Total Devices : 2


DEV#: 0 DEVICE NAME: vpath0 TYPE: 2105800 POLICY: Optimized
SERIAL: 07028305
==========================================================================
Path# Adapter/Hard Disk State Mode Select Errors
0 fscsi0/hdisk4 DEAD NORMAL 1336 0
1 fscsi0/hdisk6 OPEN NORMAL 3944 0

DEV#: 1 DEVICE NAME: vpath1 TYPE: 2105800 POLICY: Optimized
SERIAL: 50A28305
==========================================================================
Path# Adapter/Hard Disk State Mode Select Errors
0 fscsi0/hdisk5 DEAD NORMAL 29948 1
1 fscsi0/hdisk7 OPEN NORMAL 74165 0

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