QUICK SSA QUESTION

[Ken]

AIXers,

I'm looking for a quicker way to determine the physical locations of
ssa drives in a SSA drawer w/o having to use diag/ssa service aides
for location. I'm trying to draw a schematic going through diags is
pretty tedious.

Does anyone know of a quicker and/or better way?

Thanks in advance

[Joerg Ammann]

[email]ucstyle@hotmail.com[/email] (Ken) wrote in message news:<d526473a.0307091147.682f87b7@posting.google. com>...

> AIXers,
>
> I'm looking for a quicker way to determine the physical locations of
> ssa drives in a SSA drawer w/o having to use diag/ssa service aides
> for location. I'm trying to draw a schematic going through diags is
> pretty tedious.
>
> Does anyone know of a quicker and/or better way?
>
> Thanks in advance

you could try to get maymap from your IBM-friend ;-)
(it's not aix-standard, says "IBM internal use only")
below sample output (maybe distorted due to linebreaking)
gives you a nice drawing of your hosts and ssa-disks/cabling

--------------------------------

************************************************** ***************************
MAYMAP Version v1.98n 6-Feb-98 18:00 : Colonial SSA Network Map Utility
Written by Lee Sanders - Copyright (C)IBM 1994-1998 - IBM Internal Use Only
************************************************** ***************************
maymap: No IPN Node Number for ssa0 obtained from ODM.
maymap: Getting default IPN Node Number
maymap: Default IPN Node Number = 0x80
maymap: Number was greater than 100. Using default
************************************************** ***************************
SSA Enhanced RAID Adapter Card: ssa0 [Node 0x80] [Bus: 0] [Slot: 3] found.
Type: adapter/mca/ssa Firmware: 6701
Time Out Period set to 120
************************************************** ***************************
Device ssa0 [Node 0x80] - 16 DriverPhysical resources reported
Allicat/SSA = 0664 S1H ... Starfire/Scorfire SSA = DFHC (Model Varies)
Scorpion/SSA = DCHC (Model Varies)
************************************************** ***************************
..-------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------.
|gis-1 | |Mystery | |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B|
|Node 80|---|?? ?? ??|---|29D4F045|---|29D4B0BB|---|AC7AD540|---|AC7AD5AC|---.
|Port A1| |SSA Node| |CUSMA903| |CUSMA903| |CUSMA903| |CUSMA903| |
..-------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. |
.-------------------------------------------------------------------.
| .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------.
| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B|
.--|29D4FF87|---|29D4FEDD|---|29D4FFBA|---|29D07C1B|---|945C4FA5|---.
|CUSMA903| |CUSMA903| |CUSMA903| |CUSMA903| |CUSMA908| |
.--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. |
.-------------------------------------------------------------------.
| .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------.
| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B|
.--|945C79A0|---|945C79CC|---|945C78DB|---|29D4DBB8|---|29D4F463|---.
|CUSMA908| |CUSMA908| |CUSMA908| |CUSMA903| |CUSMA903| |
.--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. .--------. |
.-------------------------------------------------------------------.
| .--------. .--------.
| |DCHC 09B| |DCHC 09B|
.--|29D4F936|---|29D50111|---.
|CUSM2048| |CUSMA903| |
.--------. .--------. |
..-------. |
|gis-1 | |
|Node 80|-----------------------------.
|Port A2|
..-------.
..-------.
|gis-1 |
|Node 80|--- ??
|Port B1|
..-------.
..-------.
|gis-1 |
|Node 80|--- ??
|Port B2|
..-------.

[Jeffrey Ross]

Ken wrote in message ...

>AIXers,
>
>I'm looking for a quicker way to determine the physical locations of
>ssa drives in a SSA drawer w/o having to use diag/ssa service aides
>for location. I'm trying to draw a schematic going through diags is
>pretty tedious.
>
>Does anyone know of a quicker and/or better way?
>
>Thanks in advance

maymap is the way to go.
Apart from that you will probably find that the SSA drives are assigned
pdisk numbers in serial number order, so if you are able to set up your SSA
drives in serial number order it should make things a lot simpler. Not sure
if this is standard or not, but it works for me on AIX 4.3.3.
Regards,
Jeffrey.