User’s Guide
QConvergeConsole CLI
2400, 2500, 2600, 3200, 8100, 8200, 8300 Series
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User’s Guide—QConvergeConsole CLI
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Information furnished in this manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, QLogic Corporation assumes no
responsibility for its use, nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its
use. QLogic Corporation reserves the right to change product specifications at any time without notice. Applications
described in this document for any of these products are for illustrative purposes only. QLogic Corporation makes no
representation nor warranty that such applications are suitable for the specified use without further testing or
modification. QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document.
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Document Revision History
Revision A, December 13, 2010
Revision B, March 31, 2011
Revision C, October 19, 2011
Revision D, September 12, 2012
Revision E, November 12, 2012
Revision F, March 19, 2013
Revision G, May 6, 2013
Changes Sections Affected
Modified note explaining requirement for tape
devices and backup software
Added “all” parameter to command line definition
for -z option
Added footnote explaining requirement for tape
devices and backup software
Changed command name from “FC Adapter Information” to “All Information”
“Hardware Requirements” on page 1-1
“Host Configuration (Command Line Option -z)” on
page 6-2
“Adapter Parameters” on page 6-28
“-z (All Information)” on page 6-41
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Table of Contents
Preface
What Is in This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
What Is in the Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Related Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Documentation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
License Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Technical Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Downloading Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Knowledge Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
1 System Requirements
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Operating System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Supported QLogic Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
2 Installing and Uninstalling QConvergeConsole CLI
Downloading QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Installing QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Installing QConvergeConsole CLI in a Windows Environment . . . . . . 2-2
Standard Windows Interactive (CLI) Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Quiet or Silent Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Passive Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Installing QConvergeConsole CLI in a Linux Environment . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Installing QConvergeConsole CLI in a Solaris Environment . . . . . . . . 2-3
Installation using Package Files (Solaris 10 or 11) . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Installation using p5p Files (Solaris 11 only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Uninstalling QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Uninstalling QConvergeConsole CLI in a Windows Environment . . . . 2-6
Start Menu Uninstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Control Panel Uninstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
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Command Line Uninstall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Uninstalling QConvergeConsole CLI in a Linux Environment . . . . . . . 2-7
Uninstalling QConvergeConsole CLI in a Solaris Environment. . . . . . 2-7
Uninstalling a Package Installation (Solaris 10 or 11). . . . . . . . . 2-7
Uninstalling a p5p Installation (Solaris 11 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
3 Getting Started
Using Noninteractive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Using Interactive Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Starting QConvergeConsole CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Starting QConvergeConsole CLI in Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Starting QConvergeConsole CLI in Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Starting QConvergeConsole CLI in Solaris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Menu Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
4 General Noninteractive Commands
Viewing General Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Viewing All Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Viewing All Flash Image Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Viewing All Matching Flash Image Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Viewing All Flash Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
5 NIC Noninteractive Commands
Command Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
-beacon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
-c (NIC Port Setting Configuration). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
-cardreset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
-ch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
-d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
-ei. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
-extloopback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
-flashsupport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
-g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
-h (Help) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
-i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
-icna (CNA Adapter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
-idcbx. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
-intloopback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
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-iset (Display Configured Port Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
-link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
-minidump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
-n (Change Port Alias Name [NIC Configuration]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
-nh (Adapter Alias [NIC Configuration]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
-pinfo (CNA Port Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
-ping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
-rc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
-sreset (Reset NIC Statistics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
-statport (Display NIC Port Statistics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
-sunreset (Undo Reset NIC Statistics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
-team_allowCNAsIn8023adTeam (LACP Override) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15
-teamdel (Delete Team) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15
-teaminfo (Display Team Information). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15
-teamlist (Display Teams List). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
-teamnew (Configure New Team). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
-teamnew_portspreview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
-testflash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
-testhw (Hardware Test) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
-testinterrupt (Interrupt Test) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
-testled (Beacon/LED Test). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
-testlink (Link Test) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
-testregister (Register Test) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
-trans (Transceiver Monitoring Interface [DMI]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
-updimages (Flash Update) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
-updimages_viewver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
-v, -ver (Display Program Version Information). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
-vlanadd (Add VLAN to Port or Team) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
-vlanadd_preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21
-vlandel (Remove VLAN from Port or Team) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21
-vlandel_preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21
-vlaninfo (Display VLAN Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
-vlanlist (Display VLAN List) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
-vpd (CNA VPD Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
-vtcfgview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
-vtrestore (Restore VLAN & Teaming Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-24
-vtsave (Save VLAN & Teaming Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26
-zvt (Display Teams List; Display VLAN List; Display VLAN
Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-27
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6 Fibre Channel Noninteractive Commands
Displaying System Information (Command Line Options -g, -z, and -tp) . . . 6-1
Host Information (Command Line Option -g). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Host Configuration (Command Line Option -z) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Host Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Command Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
-a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
-b (Flash Update; Save Flash) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
-c (Display HBA Parameters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
-cna (CNA FCoE Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
-dm (Transceiver Diagnostics Monitoring Interface [DMI]) . . . . . . . . . 6-10
-e (Boot Devices Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
-ei. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
-f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
-fg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
-fs (Driver Parameters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
-fwdump (Firmware Dump). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
-g (Generate Reports) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
-gs (Configure Parameters [FC Port Statistics]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
-h (Help) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
-ha (Adapter Alias [FCoE Configuration]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17
-i (FC Adapter Information; FC VPD Information). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17
-kl (Loopback Test) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
-kr (Read Write Buffer Test) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19
Running a Read/Write Buffer Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-20
Running an Adapter Diagnostics Read/write Buffer Test . . . . . . 6-21
-l (FC Target/LUN Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
-ls (Display Parameters [HBA Statistics]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
-m (Selective LUNs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25
-n (Configure HBA Parameters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-27
-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-29
-p (Target Persistent Bindings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-30
-pa (Adapter Port Alias [FCoE Configuration]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-32
-pc (Adapter Personality Change) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-33
-pl (Persistent Names (udev) – Linux only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-33
-q (Target Link Speed [iiDMA]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-34
-r (Parameters Update; Save HBA Parameters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-35
-s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-36
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-sp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-36
-t (FC Target/LUN Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-37
-tb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-38
-tp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-38
-trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-38
-u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-38
-v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-39
-vp (Virtual Ports [NPIV]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-39
-x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40
-x2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40
-z (All Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-41
7 iSCSI Noninteractive Commands
Command Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
-acb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
-addchap (Add a CHAP Entry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
-arp (Display ARP Table) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
-b (Save Changes and Reset HBA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
-binfo (Display BIOS/UEFI Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
-bootcode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
-c (CNA Port Information—iSCSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
-ch (CNA Adapter Information—iSCSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
-chapmap (Display Targets Using CHAP Entries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
-cpbootcode (Clear Primary Boot Target Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
-csbootcode (Clear Secondary Boot Target Information) . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
-d (Drivers Update) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
-dc (Display Destination Cache [IPv6]). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
-dce (Display Connection Error Log) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
-defbidi (Add a Default BIDI CHAP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
-delchap (Delete a CHAP Entry). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
-df . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
-dp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
-dr (Display Default Router List [IPv6]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
-dspchap (Display CHAP Table) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
-dtdsp (Display Discovered Targets). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
-dtdspa (List Targets) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
-dtdupd (Duplicate a Discovered Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
-dtdupd (Duplicate a Persistent Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
-dtli (Login and Persist a Discovered Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
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-dtlia (Login and Persist a Discovered Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
-dtrem (Remove Discovered Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
-dtrema (Remove Discovered Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
-dumpcore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
-dumpnvram (Retrieve FW Flash & NVRAM Record) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
-dv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
-edchap (Edit a CHAP Entry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
-ei. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
-f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
-g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
-gcr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
-h (Help) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
-i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
-import (Import HBA Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
-ipdhcp (Configure IP Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
-l (List LUN Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
-lcd (Display Configured Link Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
-linkchap (Assign a CHAP Entry to a Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
-lp (Display Local Prefix List [IPv6]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
-model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
-n (Configure iSCSI Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
-nc (Display Neighbor Cache [IPv6]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17
-netconf (Configure IPv6 Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17
-netconf6 (Configure IPv6 Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18
-nh (Configure iSCSI Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
-pa (Add a Target). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
-pad (CNA Port Target/LUN Information–iSCSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
-pb (Bind Target). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
-pbootcode (Set Primary Boot Target Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
-pdt (Disable a Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
-pet (Enable a Target). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
-pinfo (CNA Port Information—iSCSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
-ping (Ping Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
-ps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
-pu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
-px . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
-r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
-rdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22
-rdh (Port Restore Factory Defaults) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22
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-rwt (Read Write Buffer Test—iSCSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23
-save (Save Host Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
-sbootcode (Set Secondary Boot Target Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
-sbootcodecid (Set Alternative Client ID) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
-sdmrc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
-stadd (Add a Send Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
-statport (Display iSCSI Port Statistics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
-stathba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
-stdsp (Display Send Targets) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
-strd (Mark Send Target for re-discovery). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
-strem (Remove a Send Target) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
-strema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
-t (Display Target Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
-tc (Configure Target Parameters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
-tp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27
-ts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27
-ver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27
-vpd (CNA VPD Information—iSCSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27
8 NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Noninteractive Commands
Command Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
-ainfo (NPAR Adapter Information). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
-changepersonality (Change PCI Function Personality). . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
-ei. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
-eswitchinfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
-eswitchstats (General eSwitch Statistics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
-eswitchvportstats (View All eSwitch Statistics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
-feswitchcfg (Function x ESwitch Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
-finfo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
-h (Help) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
-ia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
-if . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
-ip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
-peswitchcfg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
-pinfo (NPAR Port Information). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
-restoreeswitchcfg (Restore eSwitch Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
-setmaxbw (Modify Maximum Bandwidth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
-setminbw (Modify Minimum Bandwidth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
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9 NIC Interactive Commands
Adapter Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
CNA Adapter Information (-icna) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
CNA Port Information (-pinfo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
CNA VPD Information (-vpd) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Adapter Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Adapter Alias (-nh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
NIC Port Setting Configuration (-c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
Display Configured Port Settings (-iset). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7
Configure Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7
Change Port Alias Name (-n) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7
Change MAC Alias Name (-n) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Save Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Adapter Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Flash Update (-updimages) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
Adapter Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
Register Test (-testregister) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Hardware Test (-testhw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Interrupt Test (-testinterrupt). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Loopback Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Link Test (-testlink) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Beacon/LED Test (-testled). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12
Adapter Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13
Display NIC Port Statistics (-statport) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13
Reset NIC Statistics (-sreset) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14
Undo Reset NIC Statistics (-sunreset) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14
Refresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
Help (-h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
10 Fibre Channel Interactive Commands
Adapter Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
FC Adapter Information (-i). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
FC Port Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
FC VPD Information (-i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4
FC Target/LUN Information (-t). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5
Adapter Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6
Adapter Alias (-ha) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7
Adapter Port Alias (-pa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8
HBA Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8
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Display HBA Parameters (-c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-9
Configure HBA Parameters (-n) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10
Restore Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11
Target Persistent Binding (-p). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12
Persistent Names (-pl) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12
Display Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-20
Bind Target(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-20
Unbind Target(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-21
Boot Devices Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-22
Display Boot Device(s) (-e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-23
Configure Boot Device(s) (-e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-24
Virtual Ports (NPIV) (-vp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-25
Target Link Speed (iiDMA) (-q) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-26
Basic Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-27
Advanced Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-27
Driver Parameters (-fs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-28
Selective LUNs (-m) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-29
Display LUN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-30
Manual Configure LUNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-32
Auto Configure LUNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-32
Quality of Service (QoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-33
Export (Save) Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-34
Save Flash (-b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-34
Save HBA Parameters (-r). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-34
Generate Reports (-g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-35
Personality (-pc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-35
Adapter Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-37
Flash Update (-b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-37
Driver Update (-d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-38
Parameters Update (-r). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-39
Parameters Template Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-39
Firmware Preload Table Update (-u) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-40
Firmware Serdes Table Update (-sp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-40
Fibre Channel Dump (-fwdump) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-41
Adapter Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-41
Loopback Test (-kl) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-42
Display Test Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-43
Reset Test Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-43
Configure Test Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-43
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Start Diagnostics Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-44
Read Write Buffer Test (-kr) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-45
Display Test Parameters (-kr) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-45
Reset Test Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-46
Configure Test Parameters (-kr) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-46
Start Diagnostics Test (-kr). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-46
Transceiver Diagnostics Monitoring Interface (DMI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-47
General (-dm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-47
Details (-dm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-48
Adapter Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-49
Display FC Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-49
Display Parameters (-gs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-50
Reset Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-50
Configure Parameters (-gs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-50
Display HBA Statistics (-gs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-51
Display FC Port Link Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-51
Display Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-52
Reset Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-52
Configure Parameters (-ls) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-53
Display Link Statistics (-ls). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-53
Refresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-54
Help (-h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-55
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-55
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Adapter Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
CNA Adapter Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 3
NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3
FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4
iSCSI (-ch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4
CNA Port Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 5
NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5
FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6
iSCSI (-c; -pinfo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 7
CNA VPD Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-8
NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-8
FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9
iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9
CNA VLAN Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
Teaming Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
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CNA FCoE Information (-cna) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-11
NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -12
FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
CNA iSCSI Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -16
CNA Port Target/LUN Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-17
iSCSI (-pad) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-17
FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-19
Adapter Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-21
CNA FCoE Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-21
Adapter Alias (-ha). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-22
Adapter Port Alias (-pa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-23
HBA Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -24
Target Persistent Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-27
Boot Devices Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 30
Virtual Ports (NPIV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-33
Target Link Speed (iiDMA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-37
Driver Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4 1
Selective LUNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-43
QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -47
Export (Save) Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-49
Generate Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-50
Personality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-52
CNA iSCSI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-53
HBA Level Parameter Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-53
Port Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -55
Port IP Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-65
Target Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-67
Boot Devices Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 78
Export (Save) Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-81
CNA NIC Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-83
Adapter Alias (-nh). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-83
NIC Port Setting Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-84
VLAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-87
Team Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-91
Export (Save) Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 1 0 0
Adapter Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 0 1
Flash Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 102
Parameters Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 0 2
Drivers Update (-d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 0 3
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Firmware Preload Table Update (-u) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-103
Firmware Serdes Table Update (-sp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 0 4
Adapter Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 0 4
Register Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-105
Hardware Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-106
Flash Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 106
Interrupt Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-107
Link Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-108
Loopback Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-108
NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-109
FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 109
iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-111
Read Write Buffer Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 11 2
FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-112
iSCSI (-rwt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-114
Beacon/LED Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-115
Transceiver Diagnostics Monitoring Interface (DMI) (-dmi) . . . . . . . . 11 - 115
General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-116
Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-117
iSCSI Adapter Diagnostics (-dumpnvram) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 11 8
iSCSI Port Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-119
Ping Target (-ping) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-119
Perform Read/Write Buffer Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-120
iSCSI Port Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-120
Display ARP Table (-arp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-121
Display Connection Error Log (-dce) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 22
Export Connection Error Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 22
Display Neighbor Cache (IPv6) (-nc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-123
Display Destination Cache (IPv6) (-dc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 2 3
Display Default Router List (IPv6) (-dr) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-123
Display Local Prefix List (IPv6) (-lp). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 123
Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -123
Adapter Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 2 4
Display NIC Port Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -124
Reset NIC Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -125
Undo Reset NIC Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-126
Display FCoE Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 2 6
Display Test Parameters (-gs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-127
Reset Test Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 1 28
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Configure Test Parameters (-gs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-128
Display HBA Statistics (-gs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 2 8
Display FCoE Port Link Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-129
Display Test Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-130
Reset Test Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 1 30
Configure Test Parameters (-ls). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 130
Display Link Statistics (-ls). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 3 1
Display iSCSI Port Statistics (-stat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 3 2
Reset iSCSI Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-133
NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 134
NPAR Adapter Information (-ainfo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 1 3 4
NPAR Port Information (-pinfo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11- 135
NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-136
Bandwidth Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 137
Modify Minimum Bandwidth (-setminbw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-137
Modify Maximum Bandwidth (-setmaxbw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-138
Change PCI Function Personality (-changepersonality). . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 3 8
ESwitch Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 39
Function 1 ESwitch Configuration (-feswitchcfg) . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-139
Function 3 ESwitch Configuration (-feswitchcfg) . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-139
Restore ESwitch Configuration (-restoreeswitchcfg) . . . . . . . . . 11-139
NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-139
General ESwitch Statistics (-eswitchstats) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-140
View All ESwitch Statistics (-eswitchvportstats) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-141
Function x ESwitch Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-142
Refresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-142
Help (-h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-143
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 1 43
12 Setting Up NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Using Interactive Commands
Setting Up NIC Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1
A NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Overview
What Is NPAR? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
QLogic Adapters That Support NPAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
NIC Partitioning Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Function Type Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5
Quality of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6
eSwitch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
NPAR Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8
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Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8
Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8
NPAR Configuration Parameters and Setup Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9
Interoperation of Bandwidth Settings for DCBX and NPAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10
Using DCBX and NPAR to Set Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10
Glossary
Index
List of Figures
Figure Page
7-1 Adapter Port Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
12-1 Selecting Option 6 to View NPAR Information Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2
12-2 Selecting Option 2 to View NPAR Port Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2
12-3 Viewing NPAR Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3
12-4 Selecting NPAR Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3
12-5 Selecting to Modify Minimum Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4
12-6 Setting Bandwidth Changes to Persist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5
12-7 Selecting Function Type on Linux System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-6
List of Tables
Table Page
6-1 Options Shown by -z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
6-2 Command Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
6-3 DCE Statistics Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
6-4 Driver Settings Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
6-5 Adapter Statistics Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
6-6 Diagnostics Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22
6-7 Data Pattern (DP) Test Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
6-8 Link Status Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
6-9 Adapter Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-28
7-1 Noninteractive Command Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
7-2 CHAP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
7-3 Adapter Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
8-1 eSwitch Physical Function Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
8-2 eSwitch Physical Port Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
11-1 Default Loopback Test Parameter Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-110
11-2 Default Read Write Buffer Test Parameter
Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-113
A-1 Ports and NPAR Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5
A-2 Default NPAR Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8
A-3 NPAR Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8
A-4 NPAR Configuration Parameters and Setup Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9
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A-5 NPAR Wake on LAN (WoL) and PXE Boot Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9
A-6 Using DCBX and NPAR for Bandwidth Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-11
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Preface
This guide describes QConvergeConsole® CLI, which is used to configure and
manage QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters, Intelligent Ethernet Adapters, and
Converged Network Adapters within SANs.
What Is in This Guide
This guide contains the basic information you need to get started with
QConvergeConsole CLI.
This preface explains the QConvergeConsole CLI help system, describes the
typographic conventions used in this guide, lists related documents, specifies the
intended audience, refers you to the QLogic license agreements, and provides
technical support and contact information.
The remainder of the user’s guide is organized into the following chapters:
Chapter 1 System Requirements lists the hardware, software, and operating
system requirements needed for the successful operation of the
QConvergeConsole CLI.
Chapter 2 Installing and Uninstalling QConvergeConsole CLI describes how
to download, install, and uninstall the utility.
Chapter 3 Getting Started describes how to start QConvergeConsole CLI on
Windows
to view detailed information about command parameters and options.
Chapter 4 General Noninteractive Commands describes and shows
examples of the general noninteractive commands that apply to all
QConvergeConsole CLI supported protocols: NIC, Fibre Channel, and
iSCSI.
Chapter 5 NIC Noninteractive Commands describes the noninteractive NIC
command syntax and parameters.
Chapter 6 Fibre Channel Noninteractive Commands describes the
noninteractive Fibre Channel command syntax and parameters.
Chapter 7 iSCSI Noninteractive Commands describes the noninteractive
iSCSI command syntax and parameters.
Chapter 8 NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Noninteractive Commands describes the
noninteractive NIC Partitioning (NPAR) command syntax and parameters.
®
, Linux®, and Solaris® platforms. This chapter also describes how
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What Is in the Help System
Chapter 9 NIC Interactive Commands contains a description of the
QConvergeConsole CLI NIC interactive mode menus.
Chapter 10 Fibre Channel Interactive Commands contains a description of
the QConvergeConsole CLI Fibre Channel interactive mode menus.
Chapter 11 Converged Network Adapter Interactive Commands contains a
description of the QConvergeConsole CLI Converged Network Adapter
interactive mode menus for the NIC, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and NPAR
functions.
Chapter 12 Setting Up NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Using Interactive
Commands contains steps for setting up NIC Partitioning (NPAR) using the
interactive mode menus of QConvergeConsole CLI.
Appendix A NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Overview provides an overview of NIC
partitioning.
Following these chapters is a glossary of terms and an index to help you quickly
locate the information you need.
What Is in the Help System
The QConvergeConsole CLI help system (qaucli -h) contains a condensed
version of the NIC, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NPAR noninteractive commands
described in Chapters 5 through 8.
Intended Audience
This guide is for system administrators who are responsible for installing,
configuring, and managing QLogic adapters using QConvergeConsole CLI.
Related Materials
For additional help installing or using QConvergeConsole CLI, refer to the
following related documents posted on the QLogic Web site
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com
QConvergeConsole CLI Readme
For information about the QConvergeConsole GUI utility, refer to the following
document:
QConvergeConsole User’s Guide (part number SN0054669-00)
:
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Documentation Conventions
NOTE
CAUTION
This guide uses the following documentation conventions:
provides additional information.
without an alert symbol indicates the presence of a hazard
that could cause damage to equipment or loss of data.
Tex t i n blue font indicates a hyperlink (jump) to a figure, table, or section in
this guide, and links to Web sites are shown in underlined blue
example:
Table 9-2 lists problems related to the user interface and remote agent.
See “Installation Checklist” on page 3-6.
For more information, visit www.qlogic.com
Tex t i n bold font indicates user interface elements such as a menu items,
buttons, check boxes, or column headings. For example:
Preface
Documentation Conventions
. For
.
Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and
then click Command Prompt.
Under Notification Options, select the Warning Alarms check box.
Tex t i n Courier font indicates a file name, directory path, or command line
text. For example:
To return to the root directory from anywhere in the file structure:
cd /root and press ENTER.
Type
Enter the following command: sh ./install.bin
Key names and key strokes are indicated with UPPERCASE:
Press CTRL+P.
Press the UP ARROW key.
Tex t i n italics indicates terms, emphasis, variables, or document titles. For
example:
For a complete listing of license agreements, refer to the QLogic
Software End User License Agreement.
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What are shortcut keys?
To enter the date type mm/dd/yyyy (where mm is the month, dd is the
Topic titles between quotation marks identify related topics either within this
manual or in the online help, which is also referred to as the help system
throughout this document.
Command line interface (CLI) command syntax conventions include the
following:
Plain text indicates items that you must type as shown. For example:
< > (angle brackets) indicate a variable whose value you must specify.
day, and yyyy is the year).
qaucli -pr nic -ei
For example:
<serial_number>
For CLI commands only, variable names are always indicated
using angle brackets instead of italics.
[ ] (square brackets) indicate an optional parameter. For example:
[<file_name>] means specify a file name, or omit it to select
the default file name.
| (vertical bar) indicates mutually exclusive options; select one option
only. For example:
on|off
1|2|3|4
... (ellipsis) indicates that the preceding item may be repeated. For
example:
x... means one or more instances of x.
[x...] means zero or more instances of x.
{ } (braces) denote a parameter group that you can specify one or
more times:
When used together, ( ) (parentheses) and { } (braces) indicate
grouping of parameters to avoid logical ambiguity. For example:
a|b c is ambiguous
{(a|b) c} means a or b, followed by c
{a|(b c)} means either a, or b c
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License Agreements
Refer to the QLogic Software End User License Agreement for a complete listing
of all license agreements affecting this product.
Technical Support
Customers should contact their authorized maintenance provider for technical
support of their QLogic products. QLogic-direct customers may contact QLogic
Technical Support; others will be redirected to their authorized maintenance
provider. Visit the QLogic support Web site listed in Contact Information for the
latest firmware and software updates.
For details about available service plans, or for information about renewing and
extending your service, visit the Service Program Web page at
http://www.qlogic.com/Support/Pages/ServicePrograms.aspx
Downloading Updates
Preface
License Agreements
.
The QLogic Web site provides periodic updates to product firmware, software,
and documentation.
To download firmware, software, and documentation:
1. Go to the QLogic Downloads and Documentation page:
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com
2. Under QLogic Products, type the QLogic model name in the search box.
3. In the search results list, locate and select the firmware, software, or
documentation for your product.
4. View the product details Web page to ensure that you have the correct
firmware, software, or documentation. For additional information, click the
Read Me and Release Notes icons under Support Files.
5. Click Download Now.
6. Save the file to your computer.
7. If you have downloaded firmware, software, drivers, or boot code, follow the
installation instructions in the Readme file.
Instead of typing a model name in the search box, you can perform a guided
search as follows:
1. Click the product type tab: Adapters, Switches, Routers, or ASICs.
.
2. Click the corresponding button to search by model or operating system.
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3. Click an item in each selection column to define the search, and then click
Go.
4. Locate the firmware, software, or document you need, and then click the
icon to download or open the item.
Training
QLogic Global Training maintains a Web site at www.qlogictraining.com offering
online and instructor-led training for all QLogic products. In addition, sales and
technical professionals may obtain Associate and Specialist-level certifications to
qualify for additional benefits from QLogic.
Contact Information
QLogic Technical Support for products under warranty is available during local
standard working hours excluding QLogic Observed Holidays. For customers with
extended service, consult your plan for available hours. For Support phone
numbers, see the Contact Support link at support.qlogic.com.
Support Headquarters
QLogic Web Site
Technical Support Web Site
QLogic Corporation
4601 Dean Lakes Blvd.
Shakopee, MN 55379 USA
www.qlogic.com
http://support.qlogic.com
Technical Support E-mail
Technical Training E-mail
Knowledge Database
The QLogic knowledge database is an extensive collection of QLogic product
information that you can search for specific solutions. QLogic is constantly adding
to the collection of information in the database to provide answers to your most
urgent questions. Access the database from the QLogic Support Center:
http://support.qlogic.com
support@qlogic.com
training@qlogic.com
.
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1 System Requirements
NOTE
QConvergeConsole CLI is a management utility that centralizes management and
configuration of QLogic adapters within the entire network (LAN and SAN). For
optimum performance, QConvergeConsole CLI requires the hardware, software,
and operating systems listed in this chapter:
Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements
Operating System Requirements
Supported QLogic Adapters
Hardware Requirements
For the latest information on supported hardware, refer to the
QConvergeConsole CLI Readme and Release Notes.
QConvergeConsole CLI requires the following minimum hardware for the
workstation server:
Server.
“Operating System Requirements” on page 1-2
systems.
Processor. Pentium® II processor, 300MHz.
Memory. 64MB of physical RAM to run QConvergeConsole CLI.
Hard disk space. About 26MB disk space.
The minimum hardware requirements for the adapter are as follows:
Adapters. One or more of the QLogic adapters listed under “Supported
QLogic Adapters” on page 1-4.
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Single-processor or multiprocessor server or workstation. See
for a list of operating
1–System Requirements
NOTE
NOTE
NOTE
Software Requirements
The minimum requirements for a SAN environment are as follows:
Storage. Fibre Channel or iSCSI devices, such as disks and RAID
subsystems. QConvergeConsole CLI supports most Fibre Channel and
iSCSI devices. For details, see the QLogic Storage Networking
Interoperability Guide, which you can download from the following QLogic
Web page: http://connect.qlogic.com/interopguide/info.asp
Tape devices and Backup Protection Software must support persistent
binding.
Software Requirements
For the latest information on supported software, refer to the
QConvergeConsole CLI Readme and Release Notes.
QConvergeConsole CLI requires the following software for the server on which
your adapter is physically installed:
Administrative privileges to perform management functions
QLogic adapter drivers for your operating system
Refer to the QLogic Web site for QLogic adapter drivers and agents:
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com
.
Operating System Requirements
QConvergeConsole CLI runs on the following platforms:
Microsoft
Red Hat
Novell
Oracle
Solaris
®
Windows Server®
®
Linux® Advance Server/Enterprise Server
®
SUSE
®
Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) R2 (2.6.39-400 kernel)
®
®
Linux Enterprise Server (SLES®)
SPARC® and Solaris x86
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Operating System Requirements
For an up-to-date list of supported operating system versions, refer to
the QConvergeConsole CLI Readme, which can be downloaded where
QConvergeConsole CLI is posted on the QLogic Web site:
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com
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NOTE
Supported QLogic Adapters
Supported QLogic Adapters
QConvergeConsole CLI supports the following QLogic-branded adapters:
2400/2500/2600 Series Fibre Channel Adapters
3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet Adapters
8100/8200/8300 Series Converged Network Adapters
For information about QLogic adapters, refer to the QLogic Web site at
http://www.qlogic.com/Products/adapters
To determine support for OEM-branded adapters, please contact your OEM.
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NOTE
QConvergeConsole CLI
This chapter describes how to download, install, and uninstall QConvergeConsole CLI.
Downloading QConvergeConsole CLI
“Installing QConvergeConsole CLI” on page 2-2
“Uninstalling QConvergeConsole CLI” on page 2-6
QConvergeConsole CLI is designed to configure QLogic adapters on the
local machine (where it is installed). It cannot configure adapters on remote
machines.
Downloading QConvergeConsole CLI
Follow this procedure to download the QConvergeConsole CLI package file from
the QLogic Web site to your computer.
To download QConvergeConsole CLI from the QLogic Web site:
1. Go to the QLogic Downloads and Documentation page:
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com
2. Under QLogic Products, type the QLogic model name in the search box.
Alternatively, you can click Guided Search to obtain assistance in locating
the QConvergeConsole CLI version to download.
3. In the search results list, locate and select the QConvergeConsole CLI
version for your operating system.
4. View the product details Web page to ensure that you have the correct
QConvergeConsole CLI.
Click the Read Me and Release Notes icons under Support Files for
additional information.
5. Click Download Now.
6. Save the file to your computer.
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NOTE
Installing QConvergeConsole CLI
Installing QConvergeConsole CLI
The installation procedures differ depending on the operating system:
“Installing QConvergeConsole CLI in a Windows Environment” on page 2-2
“Installing QConvergeConsole CLI in a Linux Environment” on page 2-3
“Installing QConvergeConsole CLI in a Solaris Environment” on page 2-3
Installing QConvergeConsole CLI in a Windows Environment
You can install QConvergeConsole CLI from the command prompt using the
Microsoft
Standard Windows Interactive (CLI) Installation
Quiet or Silent Windows Installation
Passive Windows Installation
Installing QConvergeConsole CLI in a Linux Environment
®
Windows Installer (MSI). Use one of the following methods:
You can also configure the installation using MSI commands. To see a
summary of MSI commands, type msiexec at the command prompt.
To obtain more information about MSI, visit the Microsoft Web site.
Standard Windows Interactive (CLI) Installation
To begin a standard installation of QConvergeConsole CLI on a Microsoft
Windows operating system, unzip the file that you saved in Step 6 of
“Downloading QConvergeConsole CLI” on page 2-1. Then, issue one of the
following commands on a command line:
QConvergeConsoleCLI-<version>_win.msi
or
QConvergeConsoleCLI-<version>_win_x64.msi
where <version> is the version number of the QConvergeConsole CLI.
The default directory for the QConvergeConsole CLI utility is:
Program Files\QLogic Corporation\QConvergeConsoleCLI
If you want to install QConvergeConsole CLI in a different directory, enter it in the
command line. For example:
QConvergeConsoleCLI-<version>_win.msi installdir=<directory>
or:
QConvergeConsoleCLI-<version>_win_x64.msi installdir=<directory>
where <directory> is the full path name of the installation directory.
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