Anytime I have needed a MAC address I have had to ask for an EMC c/e to connect to the SP and get it for me. If you still have the peel off serial number label that EMC is putting on the front of the array I believe it has the MAC addresses on it.

Log into a host on the same subnet as your array and issue a ping to the SP IP address. Then do "arp -a". The IP and MAC should be in there.

(Did this on Windows in the lab. Not sure if same for Unix)

-Ryan

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I think this will work only if you are on the same network. If you have to go through a router, the MAC and IP of your default gateway is displayed when you run this command.

The MAC address of the SPs is burried in the splogs. Do an spcollect and look in the logs it is there. I'm afraid its been a while since i did it so I can't tell you which of the logs it is but it is in one of them. Anyway, you'll learn a lot about the AX4 simply by looking at the logs while searching for the MAC.

EDIT: do an spcollect, transfer them and then unzip them. Look for a file xxxxxxxxxx_isc.zip and unzip this file. Look for xxxxxxxxxxxxSPx_iSCSI.info.txt and in that text file under 'Ethernet adapter ManagementPort0:' entry you will find your Physical Address, which is the MAC address.

"arp -a" described above is applicable to UNIX too.