How to Manually Configure a FC Device

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Become an administrator.
For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.3.
Copy the /kernel/drv/fp.conf file to the /etc/driver/drv/fp.conf file.
Enable manual configuration by making sure that the following line in the/etc/driver/drv/fp.conf file is uncommented.
```
manual_configuration_only=1;
```
For more information about this setting, see cfgadm_fp(1M) and fp(7d).
Reboot the system.
For each fabric-connected device to be made available, select one of the following tasks, depending on whether you are using the Oracle Solaris I/O multipathing features.
- Configuring Fabric Device Nodes Without Multipathing Enabled
- Configuring Fabric Device Nodes With Oracle Solaris Multipathing Enabled
If the original default behavior for fabric-connected devices is desired, see the next step.
Disable manual configuration by making sure that the following line in the /etc/driver/drv/fp.conf file is commented:
```
# manual_configuration_only=1;
```
Reboot the system.
```
# init 6
```

Configuring Fabric Device Nodes

After you configure the hardware in your direct-attach system or SAN, you must ensure that the systems recognize the devices. This section explains host recognition of fabric devices, also known as 24-bit FC addressing devices on the SAN. After configuring the fabric devices, ports, and zones in your SAN, make sure that the system is aware of the connected fabric devices. You can have up to 16 million fabric devices connected together on a SAN with FC support.

This section is limited to the operations required from the perspective of the Oracle Solaris OS. It does not cover other aspects, such as fabric device availability and device-specific management. If fabric devices are managed by other software, such as a volume manager, refer to the volume manager product documentation for additional instructions.