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Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 24, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

fcstat and underlying APIs - show fabric IDs

My storage team flipped out when I started including fabric IDs with my requests for zoning. It's available as HBA_PORTATTRIBUTES->FabricName from HBA_GetAdapterPortAttributes. Not sure why perfstat_fcstat_t wouldn't include it or provide another call to get it, since it's so useful.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 12, 2023

    That's not the fabric ID I'm looking for, Guest...


    ROOT@phanimp73:/root # lsattr -El fscsi0 -a scsi_id
    scsi_id 0x12843 Adapter SCSI ID False


    ROOT@phanimp73:/root # /usr/local/sbin/hbaq -d 0 | egrep 'Port FC|Fabric'
    Port FC ID = 0x012843
    Fabric Name = 0x1000c4f57c118eae


    The former matches the SCSI ID on the HBA device. The latter is what my storage team recognizes as the fabric ID of the SAN fabric to which my HBA is (in this case, virtually) plumbed. It is a different field in the data returned from the API call...

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 12, 2023
    Included in AIX 7.3 TL1
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 7, 2021

    Your storage team needs to read up on fiber-channel... The Fabric ID is shown on every SCSI ID of the SAN.

    lsattr -El fscsi0 -a scsi_id
    scsi_id 0xa1807 Adapter SCSI ID False => 0xA => Fabric ID 10.

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