I can help a little bit with AIX.  Someone else will have to help with
HP/UX.

1) cfgmgr discovers and configures devices on AIX.  You may have to
install tape drivers if your drives are not part of the bos (basic
operating system) image.  If your drives are in an autochanger cfgmgr
will create an smc0 device for the robotics.  You'll need to use "rmdev
-l smc0" to get rid of that or Legato will report that the library is
busy.  Everytime cfgmgr runs (and it runs during a reboot) the smc0
device will be recreated.  I finally put a cron job in place that ran
before my backups that removed smc0.

2) smitty is the menu-based administration interface on AIX.  HP-UX has
a similar system (sam, I think).  The first menu option in smitty is for
software maintenance.  Drill down in there to see what is installed.
This is also where you go to install and upgrade drivers and software.
The F6 key will show you what command is actually being run.  lslpp with
some flags that I don't remember is the equivalent of pkginfo.

3) If you've rebooted the AIX machine and it didn't find the tape
drives, you probably need to install drivers.  My 3570 tape drives
required an install.  My AIT-3 drives were just recognized as "Other
SCSI tape".  The third menu choice in smitty works on devices.  Near the
bottom of the next list is a command to list devices.  See if your tape
drives show up in the list.  The inquire command should list them if you
find them in this list.  I'm guessing you need to install drivers.

4) HP-UX: don't know

5) We've found stuff on www.deja.com that's helped us with bizarre
things on our AIX machines.  There are a bunch of IBM manuals online at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ds_form?lang=en_US

By the way smit is an X-windows application with buttons and stuff,
smitty is command-line.



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Subject:	AIX and HP-UX tape configuration
From:	Mark T Wragge <storage AT TTT DOT IE>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:01:42 +0100

 Hi.
Would anyone be able to give me some AIX and HP-UX commands and
procedures for configuration of tape devices and fibre cards.  I would
like the relevant AIX/HP-UX commands that would compare with configuring
a solaris system.  My experience of these systems is limited (especially
when it doesn't work first time) but they are part of a Tape SAN that
must be configured as proof of concept.



1) What is the procedure for configuring tape devices on an AIX or HP-UX
system?  In a solaris system the procedure would be to edit st.conf and
use the commands drvconfig and tapes.  Do theses other flavours of Unix
follow a similar procedure and what would this be?

 2) Is there a command similar to pkginfo which is used on solaris to
see what drivers/software are installed on an AIX or HP-UX system?

 3) The FC-HBA driver directory exists on the AIX server and when the
fibre cable is plugged in the port on the switch lights. I would think
that this would mean that the Emulex driver is installed.   But the
inquire command sees no tapes.  I am not sure where to go from here.

 4) Am I to use the ioscan command rather than inquire on HP-UX.  Is
this the same as the inquire command and can it negatively effect the
server in any way?

 5)  Sun has a good website with relevant files to help troubleshoot.
Is there a good web site for HP-UX and AIX.





Regards and thanks,  Mark




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