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We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

Thanks Tom!  I wondered if that was it but I have others that are unassigned and I am able to view the WWPN's of their ports but maybe someone had assigned them to an LPAR and then unassigned it.  Does that sound like a correct scenario?

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

Thanks Tom!  I wondered if that was it but I have others that are unassigned and I am able to view the WWPN's of their ports but maybe someone had assigned them to an LPAR and then unassigned it.  Does that sound like a correct scenario?

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

Thanks again Tom, that sounds like a great approach!  We do have VIOS partitions that I could use for this but I am not a VIOS expert.  I see there are parameters for the cfgmgr and rmdev commands.  What parameters would I use for each?

Thanks Tom!  I wondered if that was it but I have others that are unassigned and I am able to view the WWPN's of their ports but maybe someone had assigned them to an LPAR and then unassigned it.  Does that sound like a correct scenario?

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

If you add new cards, you can power up the system in hard discovery mode. Be patient. That will, as part of the startup process, create a temporary LPAR, think it's called IOR Collection LPAR, that will allow the HMC to collect all the information about the FC adapters, including WWN's. 

This command will provide WWN's:

lshwres -r io -m <managed system> --rsubtype slotchildren -F phys_loc,description,wwpn | grep Fibre

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

Hi Mark & Tom,

     Thanks for your assistance!  I opened up a ticket with IBM and ask the question to which I got multiple solutions, one of which was to attach the fiber cards to any non-active LPAR and then create a SYSPLAN on the HMC.  The SYSPLAN actually discovered the WWPN's by bringing up the non-active LPAR's to the "Discovery IOR Collection LP" point of which you mentioned.  I was then able to see the WWPN's within the Physical I/O Adapters section of the Power server within the GUI.

Mark

If you add new cards, you can power up the system in hard discovery mode. Be patient. That will, as part of the startup process, create a temporary LPAR, think it's called IOR Collection LPAR, that will allow the HMC to collect all the information about the FC adapters, including WWN's. 

This command will provide WWN's:

lshwres -r io -m <managed system> --rsubtype slotchildren -F phys_loc,description,wwpn | grep Fibre

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

What type of impact does doing a SYSPLAN have on the frame? We are looking for something that we can run on a regular basis that surfaces all WWN's on a frame as part of a general automation for generating system documentation. We looked at the Powering off/o of the frame but that is quite drastic and would call for us to migrate all work off the frame so it is not really practical.  If SYSPLAN has no impact that sounds like a winner.

Hi Mark & Tom,

     Thanks for your assistance!  I opened up a ticket with IBM and ask the question to which I got multiple solutions, one of which was to attach the fiber cards to any non-active LPAR and then create a SYSPLAN on the HMC.  The SYSPLAN actually discovered the WWPN's by bringing up the non-active LPAR's to the "Discovery IOR Collection LP" point of which you mentioned.  I was then able to see the WWPN's within the Physical I/O Adapters section of the Power server within the GUI.

Mark

If you add new cards, you can power up the system in hard discovery mode. Be patient. That will, as part of the startup process, create a temporary LPAR, think it's called IOR Collection LPAR, that will allow the HMC to collect all the information about the FC adapters, including WWN's. 

This command will provide WWN's:

lshwres -r io -m <managed system> --rsubtype slotchildren -F phys_loc,description,wwpn | grep Fibre

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

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Mark Waring
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Hello Mark,

I hope I have understood your question correctly. 

All you need ist this :

# Login in vio with padmin user

oem_setup_env

lsdev|grep fcs|while read aa bb
do
echo "Device $aa"
lscfg -vl $aa|egrep '(Network|Hardware)'
done

Now you see the WWN (not Formatted with :) and the Location on Physical Card.

You need the WWN Adress for the SAN Administration to correclty zoning :-)

Tomas

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Tomas Michal

Original Message:
Sent: Thu January 11, 2024 05:37 PM
From: Mark Waring
Subject: Viewing WWPN's for FC Adapter ports

We just added 4 new PCIe3 4-Port 16Gb FC Adapters to our Power9.  Normally on I can expand the entry for the card on the HMC under Physical I/O adapters and view the ports and then each WWPN that has been assigned to that port.  After adding the new cards, I can see them in the Physical I/O Adapters but I cannot expand them to see the ports.  What do I need to do in order for me to see the ports and WWPN's for the new adapter cards?

Thanks,

Mark

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Mark Waring
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