Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide

Manual Configuration

In the Solaris 10 OS, fabric-connected devices are made available to the Solaris host. This differs from previous versions of the Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager software running on the Solaris 8 or the Solaris 9 OS. In those versions, manual configuration steps were required to achieve fabric-connected device availability.

If you want to manually configure the fabric-connected devices, use the following steps to change the default behavior on the Solaris 10 host.


Note –

Changing the default behavior makes all of your fabric-connected devices unavailable, which can cause problems for fabric-connected devices that are required to be available at boot time.


ProcedureTo Configure Manually

  1. To enable manual configuration, make sure that the following line in the/kernel/drv/fp.conf file does not start with an initial # character:


    manual_configuration_only=1;

    Refer to the fp(7D) man page and the cfgadm_fp(1M) man page for further information on this setting.

  2. Reboot the host.

  3. For each fabric-connected device that will need to be made available, follow the steps in Configuring Device Nodes Without Multipathing Enabled or Configuring Device Nodes With Solaris Multipathing Software Enabled, depending on whether you are using the Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager software for multipathing.

    If the original default behavior for fabric-connected devices is desired, use the following steps:

  4. To disable manual configuration, make sure that the following line in the/kernel/drv/fp.conf file starts with an initial # character:


    # manual_configuration_only=1;

    Refer to the fp(7D) man page and the cfgadm_fp(1M) man page for further information on this setting.

  5. Reboot the host.