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September 1st, 2011 11:00

Powerpath does not see HW path and I/O path

Here is the partial output I see when I run the powermt display dev=all command

Pseudo name=emcpowerd
Symmetrix ID=000xxxxxxxx

Logical device ID=0A3B
state=alive; policy=SymmOpt; priority=0; queued-IOs=1;
==============================================================================
--------------- Host ---------------   - Stor -   -- I/O Path --  -- Stats ---
###  HW Path               I/O Paths    Interf.   Mode    State   Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
   7 UNKNOWN                  unknown   FA  7eA   active  alive       0      0
   7 UNKNOWN                  unknown   FA  8eA   active  alive       1      0
   8 UNKNOWN                  unknown   FA 10eA   active  alive       0      0
   8 UNKNOWN                  unknown   FA  9eA   active  alive       0      0

This is a VMAX device mounted on a RHEL host.

Any ideas as to why this is happening. The device is working perfectly. It is in production....

How can I rectify this issue and make powerpath show me the paths.

154 Posts

September 2nd, 2011 06:00

Hi.  Were you running the powermt display with the "every" option?

Can you try running "powermt restore" and "powermt config"?

Thanks, Brion

154 Posts

September 2nd, 2011 08:00

Also,what is the exact OS version?

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September 2nd, 2011 09:00

The OS on this server is Linux 2.6.18 and I ran the powermt display dev=all command and pasted the info of the device that has issue.

I tried powermt config, restore, check, save and all I can think of....

Nothing worked to fix this...

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September 2nd, 2011 11:00

It looks like more indepth troubleshooting is necessary.  Please open a case with CS.

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September 2nd, 2011 16:00

I had a similar scenario with hp-ux 11.23 and Vmax. But running discovery(ioscan , isnf) and power path commands got it working. You may have to do the equivalent commands in Linux, twise Hopefully it come up

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September 6th, 2011 11:00

I talked to the CS and they want me to reboot the system.... (I am going to try this option in the next few days and will update you guys on the status)

Scanned for new devices multiple times... Always comes with a message, no changes found

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September 14th, 2011 12:00

Reboot fixed the problem.... There was an underlying host issue.

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September 15th, 2011 18:00

what host issue?

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September 19th, 2011 15:00

OS crashed when they tried to reboot the server

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