Re: [aperi-dev] Aperi Agent and QLogic HBA on Linux

["Robert Wipfel" <rawipfel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at  3:01 AM, in message
<04AE6D7E99B32647BC002EB534416A23061FA3A1@ibiza.office.orange.intra>, "CALIN
Cristian Andrei" <Cristian.Calin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Hello,
>  
> Since I failed to use the SMI- S agent in cooperation with Aperi I tried
> to give a try to Christoph's idea and use HBA.
>  
> I have the following setup:
> Aperi- R04- 070709- 123559.zip
> Additional jar files added manually due to a problem running the
> automatic install through an http proxy.
>  
> 1 production machine (call it serv1) connected to the SAN via QLogic
> Fiber Chanel Adapter
> 1 machine (call it aperitest) running a full installation of Aperi
> configured with Apache Derby DB
>  
> qlremote HBA agent running on serv1 
> java environment 1.5.0_12 on both nodes
>  
> both machines are AMD64 running 32bit linux
>  
> When I start the agent on srv1 it reports to the aperitest machine that
> it is online, and I can see it in the GUI but no
> HBA information is discovered.
>  
> Can anybody tell me why there was no hba information discovered by the
> agent ? 
> What aditional setup steps must I perform to get the Aperi agent to
> discover the HBA and report correct information to Aperi ?

What is in your /etc/hba.conf file?

It should be configured to point to QLogic's implementation of
the SNIA HBA API, which is a shared library that QLogic distributes 
with their tools.

Hth,
Robert