C:\Program Files\EMC\SYMCLI\bin>symmask list hba
No valid path to the database could be found. Call symcfg discover to update the symapi database
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A symcfg disco is nondisruptive. You can do it anytime you need to get the latest info of the attached Symms. In fact, it's even a good idea to refresh is before starting a series of symcli commands (unless you know for a fact nothing much has changed).
As RRR said first thing I do is a symcfg discover or I restrict it with a -sid xxxx and you can also do a symcfg -sid xxxx verify to bounce the database against the machine to check that its up to date.
lengthy is a good word for it. I have a hard time getting the guys to run it before doing config work since we have ~16k devices on the local symm and another ~20k on a remote symm with an SRDF/A link
Well, when you have mainframe mixed in with the Open Systems, and the mainframe guys still insist on using MOD-3 devices for most of their capacity... it adds up to a lot of devices. On our Prod array they account for about 20% of our capacity and about 80% of the devices (by count).
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