Re: script to get library & drive Serial Nos from OS level

[Rhodes, Richard L.]

For AIX the info comes from a lscfg cmd.

lscfg -vl rmt2 
  rmt2 U5802.001.008C845-P1-C1-T2-W500507630F433527-L0  IBM 3592 
Tape Drive (FCP)

ManufacturerIBM
Machine Type and Model..03592E07
Serial Number...078DFE07
Device Specific.(FW)390E
Loadable Microcode LevelA1700D78

lscfg -vl smc0
  smc0 U5802.001.008C845-P1-C1-T2-W500507630F433501-L1  
IBM 3584 Library Medium Changer (FCP)

ManufacturerIBM
Machine Type and Model..03584L22
Serial Number...078A02900401
Device Specific.(FW)C460

On AIX you can use the rendev cmd to rename a rmt devices.  You can make all 
rmt's for a specific drive the same name across all AIX servers.  I don't do 
this now, but want to implement this in the near future.

Rick





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Subject: Reg: script to get library & drive Serial Nos from OS level

Hi Team,

I am in the need of collecting drive & library serial numbers for 50
servers from os level for lanfree setup

any scripts for me to fetch data

I have AIX , Linux boxes

library 3573 scsi ( linux & AIX )

Emc data domain(VTL) (linux)

Thanks & Regards,

Srikanth kola
Backup & Recovery
IBM India Pvt Ltd, Chennai
Mobile: +91 9885473450


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Re: script to get library & drive Serial Nos from OS level

[Sven Seefeld]

Hi,


[...]
On AIX you can use the rendev cmd to rename a rmt devices.

well, that depends.
You can rename all devices managed by aTape (lsdev -Cc tape). If you're using 
a SCSI library that relies on using the TSM drivers and mt devices (lsdev -Cc 
admstape) instead, you cannot rename them.


We usually run two ugly command lines to list all serial numbers and device 
names:
for device in $(lsdev -Cc adsmtape |awk '{print $1};') ; do lscfg -vl $device 
|egrep '(Serial|mt)'; done
for device in $(lsdev -Cc tape |awk '{print $1};') ; do lscfg -vl $device 
|egrep '(Serial|rmt|smc)'; done


Mostly, the mt devices won't report a serial number, so the matching between 
the WWN in the location code and the serial number is left as an exercise for 
the admin ;)



Best regards,


   Sven