Discovering HBA information from RHEL3 and SLES10

If you wish to retrieve information on HBAs on RHEL3 or SLES10 SP1. Basically, here is the path that you are looking for.

RHEL3: /proc/scsi/lpfc/
SLES10 SP1: /sys/class/fc_host/

As for the SLES10 SP2 : /sys/class/scsi_host/

There are bunch of information like HBA model, firmware, speed, port_state and WWN.

Discovering HBA from OEL5

hbanyware prepares a good place to query the hba information.

e.g.
[root@test03 audit]# /usr/sbin/hbanyware/hbacmd listhbas
Manageable HBA List
Port WWN : 10:00:00:00:c9:63:1d:79
Node WWN : 20:00:00:00:c9:63:1d:79
Fabric Name: 10:00:00:05:1e:04:6c:8b
Flags : 8000f0e5
Host Name : test03.hiu.com
Mfg : Emulex Corporation
Port WWN : 10:00:00:00:c9:63:1d:34
Node WWN : 20:00:00:00:c9:63:1d:34
Fabric Name: 10:00:00:05:1e:04:3f:9d
Flags : 8000f0e5
Host Name : test03.hiu.com
Mfg : Emulex Corporation

In order to get the HBA Model, you can get the information from hbanyware command as well.

[root@test03 audit]# /usr/sbin/hbanyware/hbacmd hbaAttributes 10:00:00:00:c9:63:1d:79
HBA Attributes for 10:00:00:00:c9:63:1d:79
Host Name : test03.hiu.com
Manufacturer : Emulex Corporation
Serial Number : BG72036851
Model : LPe1150-E
Model Desc : EMC LPe1150-E 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter
Node WWN : 20 00 00 00 c9 63 1d 79
Node Symname : Emulex LPe1150-E FV2.72A2 DV8.2.0.22
HW Version : 2057706d
Opt ROM Version:
FW Version : 2.72A2 (W3F2.72A2), sli-3
Vendor Spec ID : 10DFNumber of Ports: 1
Driver Name : lpfc
Device ID : F0E5
HBA Type : LPe1150-E
Operational FW : SLI-3 Overlay
SLI1 FW : SLI-1 Overlay 2.72a2
SLI2 FW : SLI-2 Overlay 2.72a2
SLI3 FW : SLI-3 Overlay 2.72a2
IEEE Address : 00 00 c9 63 1d 79
Boot BIOS : 1.70a3
Driver Version : 8.2.0.22; HBAAPI(I) v2.1.g, 12-07-07
Kernel Version : 1.20a4
HBA Temperature: Not Available

Configure opensuse11 + rewrite_module

if you are using opensuse 11 with cakephp development, most likely you will need to have the rewrite_module enabled on apache2.

All apache2 modules are kept at /usr/lib/apache2. Please use this command to enable your rewrite_module. Enjoy!

a2enmod rewrite
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload