how to add multiple devices to device group

Question

How do i add a large list of multiple devices to a device group via cli? the devices are non-consecutive.

apologies for this simple question - solutions enabler only describes how to add a single device...

xe2sdc · Accepted Answer

And the winner is ...

1) create a file (list.txt) with devices you want to add to dg
2) create a batch file (add.bat) with the following content

for /f %%dev in (list.txt) do symld -g yourdg add  %%dev

3) run add.bat and enjoy both the long output and the expanded DG

In case you want less output you can put another line (at the beginning of add.bat)

@echo off
for /f %%dev in (list.txt) do symld -g yourdg add  %%dev

StorageAdmin2 · Answer

Hi Bhoran,Here is what I do :Get the list of the devices that you need to add to the DG in a file for e.g : /tmp/test112341456Then run an awk command on it with following flags, for e.g : cat /tmp/test1 |awk '{print 'symld -g dgname add dev DEV'$1 ' ' $1}'you will get an output like :symld -g dgname add dev DEV1234 1234symld -g dgname add dev DEV1456 1456put this output in a file and run it as sh.. you would save some time

xe2sdc · Answer

In case you hate awk (or your keyboard doesn't offer all required keys) you can alsocat /tmp/test1 | while read devdosymld -g dgname add dev $devdone

BHORAN1 · Answer

I'm inexperienced at creating & running scripts I'm afraid. There isn't a command within the cli to just call a file listing devs for this?

KD8EWE · Answer

Bhoran that is what Stephano clearly explained above..

you are adding the device names on /tmp/test1,

and looping it with the symld command

this is the easiest way.. put it on a file and run. that will do the job. Please assign points tot he right answer always..

Thanks

StorageAdmin2 · Answer

Bhoran, this is the easiest way out .. no real scrippting in it , just get the list of devices using symdev noport command and put the it in a file ,then do the above steps...

BHORAN1 · Answer

Stefano is right, I run symcli from a windows machine..batch files are about as techy as I get!

xe2sdc · Answer

KD8EWE I simply translated what Bhat already said in his post The issue here is that Bhoran doesn't feel comfortable with CLI and symcli ... Probably he is a fellow Windows user...

xe2sdc · Answer

You need exactly a batch (.bat) file ... I guess we have to find corresponding commands (since we all talked about unix/linux hosts but you are an unlucky-but-I-guess-happy user of Win$ows machines

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Hold your breath and we'll be back ASAP

BHORAN1 · Answer

worked like a charm....many thanks Stefano!Note: I had to change %%dev to %%a. I was getting the error message '%dev was unexpected at this time.'. When in changed to %%a it worked fine.

xe2sdc · Answer

I did some tests with %%a .. and it worked .. I assumed it would have worked even with %%dev .. obviously the CMD (dos shell) isn't that smart Shame on me (and on the DOS shell)

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