Monitoring HBA card connection status from Windows Box

this will trigger alerts (based on how you parse its output) for LUNs that have been reclaimed and if "powermt check" has not been run to clean up dead devices. Dead devices does not necessarily mean dead HBA. My 2 cents.

If you do a powermt display dev=all it will show you whether or not your paths are dead or alive.

Pseudo name=harddisk14
Symmetrix ID=0000000000
Logical device ID=0264
state=alive; policy=SymmOpt; priority=0; queued-IOs=1
==============================================================================
---------------- Host ---------------   - Stor -   -- I/O Path -  -- Stats ---
### HW Path                 I/O Paths    Interf.   Mode    State  Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
   2 port2\path0\tgt3\lun39    c2t3d39   FA  4aB   active  alive      1      0
   5 port5\path0\tgt3\lun39    c5t3d39   FA 13aB   active  alive      0      0

Kunal,

this works with Emulex HBAs, don't have any Qlogic at the moment.  Download fcinfo utility from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73d7b879-55b2-4629-8734-b0698096d3b1&displaylang=en#filelist

Now run "fcinfo /ports" , ouput will looke similar to this. At this point you can scrub output from the "State" column with perl/vbscript ..whatever you like.

C:\>fcinfo /ports


                     com.emulex-LP9002-0, num: 3
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 |  Type     State   Speed             WWN                     PortWWN       |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   N_Port,   online,  2gbs,  20:00:00:00:c9:42:30:79,  10:00:00:00:c9:42:30:79
    Other,   online,  unkn,  10:00:08:00:88:a0:0e:97,  20:00:08:00:88:a0:0e:97
  NL_Port,   online,  unkn,  50:06:04:82:d5:30:f1:a3,  50:06:04:82:d5:30:f1:a3


                     com.emulex-LP9002-1, num: 4
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 |  Type     State   Speed             WWN                     PortWWN       |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   N_Port,   online,  2gbs,  20:00:00:00:c9:42:33:e2,  10:00:00:00:c9:42:33:e2
    Other,   online,  unkn,  10:00:08:00:88:e3:48:27,  20:00:08:00:88:e3:48:27
  NL_Port,   online,  unkn,  50:06:04:84:52:a5:4e:08,  50:06:04:84:52:a5:4e:08
  NL_Port,   online,  unkn,  50:06:04:82:cc:05:8c:b9,  50:06:04:82:cc:05:8c:b9

Sounded like he wanted to know from looking at powermt which is why I replied as I did.  I might do it with symcli:

C:>symmask -wwn xxxxxxxxx list logins:

Symmetrix ID            : XXXXXXXXXXX

Director Identification : FA-4B
Director Port           : 0

                            User-generated                                     Logged  On
Identifier       Type  Node Name        Port Name        FCID   In           Fabric
----------------    -----    --------------------------------- ------ -                -----       ------
XXXXXXXXX Fibre    SERVERNAME      PORT1       6e0900  Yes      Yes

If logged in is 'No' the path is down.

Hi SMW6181,

Thanks for your reply.

Whenever I run powermt display dev=all command it gives a huge output. It shows the status for all the LUNS.

Hi Dynamox,

Thanks for your reply and sharing such a useful information. Does it generate any event in the event log. I am actually now more concerned to automate the same. My idea is to track the HBA card connection status through event log. Otherwise it is difficult to monitor every now and then. By the way we have Qlogic HBA card installed on the servers and also found that Qlogic SANsurfur FC Manager tool is installed on the server. Can we take any help from this tool to generate events.

Please let me know if you have suggestion.

not sure about logging to event viewer, sorry don't have a test box around at the moment.

You can try this instead:

C:\Documents and Settings\sanmaint>powermt display
Symmetrix logical device count=12
CLARiiON logical device count=0
Invista logical device count=0
Generic logical device count=0
==============================================================================
----- Host Bus Adapters ---------  ------ I/O Paths -----  ------ Stats ------
### HW Path                        Summary   Total   Dead  IO/Sec Q-IOs Errors
==============================================================================
   2 port2\path0                   optimal      12      0       -     0      0
   5 port5\path0                   optimal      12      0       -     0      1

If all the I/O paths are dead for a path it's a fairly good indication that there's an issue with one of your connections.

The easiest way is probably the one Dynamox mentioned, or the one I mentioned about using symcli.

symmask -wwn XXXXXX list logins

Have you considered monitoring from the switch side of things? That is assuming you have a switched environment of course. Do you have any switch management tools that would facilitate monitoring from that side of things?

Hi Allen,

Thanks for your reply.

As I am not a storage guy so I do not have access to any switch management tools. May be storage admins have access to the switch management tool. But I need to monitor it from the windows box.

Thanks,

Regards

Kunal bhadra