Devices Not Immediately Available in Fabric Zones in a Storage Area Network (5077933)

When a fabric zone in a storage area network (SAN) is created dynamically, that zone's devices might be unavailable at the host side. If you use the command luxadm -e dump_map to display data for such devices or host bus adapters, an error message is displayed. See the following example:

# luxadm -e dump_map /dev/cfg/c5

Pos  Port_ID Hard_Addr Port WWN         Node WWN         Type

ERROR: Unable to retrieve target port details (QLogic Corp-2312-3)ERROR

Listing the status of all the attachment points yields information similar to the following example. In this example, the fabric devices include a tape drive, but no device is indicated in c5.

# cfgadm -al

A-_ID         Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition 
: 
:
c5            fc-fabric    connected    unconfigured unknown
usb0/1        unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
:
:

Workaround: After configuring the fabric-connected devices, reinitialize the link to the devices by using the luxadm -e forcelip command. For the previous example, you would type the following:

# luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c5