Curious if you have checked the steps in the "Installation Roadmap
for CX3-Series, CX-Series, AX-Series, and FC-Series
Storage Systems Guide" for Linux Multipath and verified the Failovermode and arraycommonpath setting for the initiators...

Not sure if there is a way to delete initiator records through the cli, but in Navisphere you can right click on the array, select properties, and select Connectivity Status. Select the stale initiator records and click on the Deregister button.

If that still does not remove the initiator records then restart the Navisphere Manager Server.

By the way, you can get loads of CLI commands from
EMC Navisphere Command Line Intereface Reference

this is strange because they should not show up as logged-in, but if you want to delete them anyway you will need to enter into engineering mode. Before you do this make sure you are de-registering correct HBAs. Also what did you change in multipath.conf ? We had the same issue and had to boot into single user mode to fix a typo.

Try using the naviseccli command port with option -removeHBA

naviseccli -h [ip address of sp] -user [username] -password [password] port -removeHBA -hbauid [hba id number]

I think the hbauid is the WWN, though I've never used the command this way...you could try -hostip [ip address of host] or -host [hostname] but in the manual it says those options remove records where the initiator is logged out

That's right, records that show the host as logged in cannot be Deregistered via the GUI unless you are engineering mode. Thanks for the catch on that.

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AranH

hi james,

you can try to remove the navisphere client agent on the host and then take a reboot and then see wats the status of HBA is in the navisphere manager.

what changes you have done in conf file.
As it has been suggested above, there cud be a typo in the conf file, please check for that.

Thanks & Regards,
Munish