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elanmbx's avatar
elanmbx
Level 6
9 years ago

5230 - Command line to scan for new fibrechannel devices

So I was informed today by one of my storage admins that they are almost continually adding new LUNs for VMware.  And they are not always quick to pass along the information to the backup team. So...
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  • PatS729's avatar
    PatS729
    9 years ago

    Hi,

    Have you tried running "rescan-scsi-bus.sh" ?

    To run above command you must have "sg3_utils" package installed on RHEL.

D_Flood's avatar
D_Flood
Level 6
9 years ago

The commands to scan are built into the menus.  On my 2.6 box it's under Manage / FibreChannel.

As for command line, it's scripts, not a single command.  So it's not that clean.  Also, some of them will cause active backups to fail if executed during a backup...