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December 12th, 2007 11:00

symmetrix inquiry commands not working

Hi all,

On the aix host most of symcli commands are working like sympd , symdg , symcfg but
About inquiry commands like syminq , syminq ¿sym are not working ..what¿s the problem
Do I need to install inq utitilty for that ..it comes with symcli right????
See here if I type syminq it takes me to next command prompt without giving any result..

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > syminq
server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin >

server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > syminq -sym
server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin >



What¿s the problem..

Thank you,
  • xe2sdc

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    Posted December 14th, 2007 07:00

    server1/root: /usr/EMC/SYMCLI/V6.0.0/bin > ls -alt syminq
    -r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 0 Dec 12 13:23 syminq


    The date of the file explains WHEN the syminq command had been corrupted... The size (and the PS1 prompt) explain HOW it was corrupted ;-)

    A "ls" in /usr/symcli/bin will show that all other executables have an older date .. while syminq was "touched" two days ago.
  • dynamox

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    Posted December 12th, 2007 13:00

    nahh..you don't need inq for syminq to work correctly. Can you check something ..run syminq hba -fiber ...does that return information about your HBAs?
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    Posted December 12th, 2007 14:00

    actually powerpath is not installed on the host where symcli resides...

    thankyou...
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    Posted December 12th, 2007 14:00

    Yes, I run syminq hba ¿fiber same thing it takes me to next command prompt line with out any result see below
    Syminq , syminq ¿h , and syminq hba ¿fiber are giving nothing

    server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > syminq
    server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > syminq -h
    server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin > syminq hba -fiber
    server1/root: /usr/symcli/bin >

    thank you..
  • pctech321

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    Posted December 12th, 2007 14:00

    syminq commands are works fine like 4 days back ...dynamox u remember me i have a problem with gate keepers 2 days back from that day onwards these inq commands are not working...

    thank you...
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    Posted December 12th, 2007 14:00

    even if i install inq utility same result???? ...then how to overcome this problem ...need to uninstall and install symcli again ???

    suggest me

    thank you..
  • dynamox

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    Posted December 12th, 2007 14:00

    you see ..sympd, symdg ..commands are going against the symapi_db file ..while syminq actually issues SCSI inquiry against the devices. Everything looks ok in Powerpath ?

    powermt display dev=all

    looks clean ? no dead devices/paths ?
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    Posted December 12th, 2007 14:00

    the only time i have seen this on one of my system was when i had issues with PowerPath ...just for test ...download the inq utility and try it. I expect you will see the same result ..empty output.
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    Posted December 12th, 2007 15:00

    interesting .... let's try inq ...you don't need to install it ..just download it from powerlink and run it:

    ./inq.aix64_51

    or whatever version you download
  • xe2sdc

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    Posted December 12th, 2007 23:00

    pctech321 can you please use the "which" command to find where the executable you are using actually resides ??

    crmidb0/root> which syminq
    /usr/symcli/bin/syminq


    It would be nice to see also if the logs show something interesting. (look in /var/symapi/log)...