scsifo(1m)
scsifo - Show Failover status and initiate Failover.
As shipped in IRIX 6.5.5. Last changed in IRIX 6.5.5.
NAME scsifo - Show Failover status and initiate Failover. SYNOPSIS The command line syntax of scsifo takes two flavors depending on the use. scsifo -d scsifo -s device-name DESCRIPTION The first form is used to dump failover status, while the second is used to initiate failover. The device-name required when performing a failover should be that of the a disk (raw or block) or a devscsi device associated with the primary path of the group the failover is being attempted on. EXAMPLES Dumping the current failover status: The following example shows a single SCSI RAID configured with 8 LUNs. scsifo -d sample output: Group 0: [P] sc4d2l7 (587) [ ] sc5d2l7 (790) Group 1: [P] sc4d2l6 (579) [ ] sc5d2l6 (782) Group 2: [P] sc4d2l5 (571) [ ] sc5d2l5 (774) Group 3: [P] sc4d2l4 (563) [ ] sc5d2l4 (766) Group 4: [P] sc4d2l3 (555) [ ] sc5d2l3 (758) Group 5: [P] sc4d2l2 (547) [ ] sc5d2l2 (750) Group 6: [P] sc4d2l1 (539) [ ] sc5d2l1 (742) Group 7: [ ] sc4d2l0 (531) [P] sc5d2l0 (734) The current primary path is indicated by a [P] in the left column. Each LUN is shown as an independent failover group with two paths. For all but LUN 0, the primary path is accessed via SCSI bus 4. For LUN 0, the primary path is accessible via SCSI bus 5. Initiating failover: The following example shows the initiation of failover of Group 5 (see above example). The primary path will migrate from SCSI bus 4 to SCSI bus 5. Note that the devscsi device name will be used for initiating the failover. It is possible to initiate failover using the full canonical name, e.g., /hw/module/1/slot/io3/mscsi/pci/2/scsi_ctlr/0/target/2/lun/2/scsi. scsifo -s sc4d2l2 sample output: New primary path /hw/module/1/slot/io3/mscsi/pci/3/scsi_ctlr/0/target/2/lun/2/scsi (869) (sc5d2l2) Another dump of the failover status shows that LUN 2 (group 5) has in fact migrated. scsifo -d sample output: Group 0: [P] sc4d2l7 (587) [ ] sc5d2l7 (790) Group 1: [P] sc4d2l6 (579) [ ] sc5d2l6 (782) Group 2: [P] sc4d2l5 (571) [ ] sc5d2l5 (774) Group 3: [P] sc4d2l4 (563) [ ] sc5d2l4 (766) Group 4: [P] sc4d2l3 (555) [ ] sc5d2l3 (758) Group 5: [ ] sc4d2l2 (547) [P] sc5d2l2 (750) Group 6: [P] sc4d2l1 (539) [ ] sc5d2l1 (742) Group 7: [ ] sc4d2l0 (531) [P] sc5d2l0 (734) FILES /usr/sbin/scsifo /dev/rdsk/* /dev/dsk/* /dev/scsi/* /etc/init.d/failover /etc/failover.conf /var/sysgen/master.d/failover SEE ALSO failover(7M). NOTES On bootup, if only a single path is found for a failover group and it's not the primary, auto failover may be performed depending on the setting of the kernel tunable variable fo_auto_failover_on_start. See /var/sysgen/master.d/failover. This does not apply to devices defined within the /etc/failover.conf configuration file.