Symcli commands to check FA speed !

Question

Hi Gents,

Does anyone know symcli commands where you can check on what speed FA are running ( 2 GB 4 GB and so on ) ?

I am trying to go trough symcli manual but i couldnt find any ? Any ideas ?

Thanks

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Dzakic · Answer

Thanks dynamox ! Well, I am supprised that this can not be listed via symcli !!

dynamox · Answer

i am afraid not, take a look at this solution emc226473

dynamox · Answer

yeah, i was hoping EMC would include that functionality into SE 7.x ..but no dice so far.

RobertDudley · Answer

true they can set a speed but if the EAN bit is set it 'should' auto negotiate to a higher speed (thats how it works in my perfect world anyway).

RobertDudley · Answer

run a command like this

symcfg -sid xxxx -FA dir# -p (0/1) -v

look for for this information in the bold type. The FA should auto negotiate witht he SAN switch at its highest speed, you can also check in the switch itself. It does not specifically state the speed but it should negotiate at what ever the SAN switch and class of storage array supports.

Fibre Specific Flags
            {
              Volume_Set_Addressing(V)     : Disabled
              Non_Participating(NP)        : Disabled
              Init_Point_to_Point(PP)      : Enabled
              Unique_WWN(UWN)              : Enabled
              VCM_State(VCM)               : Enabled
              OpenVMS(OVMS)                : Disabled
              AS400(AS4)                   : Disabled
              Auto_Negotiate(EAN)          : Enabled

dynamox · Answer

one time we had bin file changes done and CE inadvertanly hard coded FAs in the bin to 2G,  symcli was showing autonegotiate but it was still logging in as 2G to the switch even thought the FA/switch were 4G capable. Took another bin change to set it right.

Allen Ward · Answer

Can't you get this info from your switches? What type of switches are you running? We have both McData and Brocade and I can see the connection speed for all the devices.

I know this doesn't give it to you in one place if you are already gathering data from the Symm through SE, but at least you should be able to tell for sure what the actual connection speed is.

Allen Ward · Answer

I hope they didn't try to charge you for the second BIN load dynamox. We recently had an issue where something caused a production host reboot (and it shouldn't have)... a tech told us they could figure out why it happened but we would have to pay for  root cause analysis!  Needless to say, we didn't (and we are getting the RCA) but sometimes they try...

Dzakic · Answer

Hi Allen,to get details from the switch side about FA speed is not a problem. I can handle that easily. I was just wondering if I can get same details from DMX directly .

dynamox · Answer

they did not but i hate seeing these kind of surprises, i would hope CCA process would catch errors in the bin.

Allen Ward · Answer

I understand why it would make sense to get everything in one place. Sadly, what makes sense to the customer isn't always what the engineers thought would make sense :-)

SKT2 · Answer

'syminq hba' tell this . let us know if it helps Port name           : /dev/td5      Port type           : NPort      Port FCID           : 6628883      Port speed          : 1gbit      Supported speed     : 1gbit      Port state          : Online      Supported COS       : 00000008      Supported FC4 types : 0001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000      Active FC4 types    : 0801000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000      Max frame size      : 960

dynamox · Answer

that's your hba speed, not FA speed.

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Symcli commands to check FA speed !

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