Originally posted by: promes

Hello Everybody,

My system is running AIX 7.1. When I check multipath on a hdisk, I saw the status "Missing"

# lspath -l hdisk5 -H -F"name parent path_id connection status"
name   parent path_id connection                     status

hdisk5 fscsi1 0       5000097408485d1c,1000000000000 Missing
hdisk5 fscsi0 1       5000097408485d5c,1000000000000 Missing
hdisk5 fscsi0 2       5000097408485d1c,1000000000000 Enabled
hdisk5 fscsi1 3       5000097408485d5c,1000000000000 Enabled

What is the status "Missing" ? How to remove this status or clear it ?

Many thanks,

Originally posted by: sanket

The missing status indicates that the path was defined in a previous boot, but it was not detected in the most recent boot of the system.

It could be because the connection to the disk from these paths are broken.

Check you connections for missing path and after correcting the issue run cfgmgr.

Thanks

Originally posted by: MattDulson

If you can't or don't need to "fix" the missing paths, then this article explains how to remove them: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/aix/tipstechniques/systemsmanagement/removing-missing-paths/

Failing that, they can be removed directly (although I'd recomend not mucking about with the ODM unless unavoidable) via command: "odmdelete -q path_status=3 -o CuPath"