Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 2-23-2010 Administration Manual page 72

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Options
For most storage subsystems, the script can be run successfully without options. However, some
special cases might need to use one or more of the following parameters for the
script:
bus.sh
Option
-l
-L NUM
-w
-c
-r
--remove
-i
--issueLip
--forcerescan
--forceremove
--nooptscan
--color
--hosts=LIST
--channels=LIST
--ids=LIST
--luns=LIST
Procedure
Use the following procedure to scan the devices and make them available to multipathing without
rebooting the system.
1 On the storage subsystem, use the vendor's tools to allocate the device and update its access
control settings to allow the Linux system access to the new storage. Refer to the vendor's
documentation for details.
2 Scan all targets for a host to make its new device known to the middle layer of the Linux
kernel's SCSI subsystem. At a terminal console prompt, enter
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SLES 11: Storage Administration Guide
Description
Activates scanning for LUNs 0-7. [Default: 0]
Activates scanning for LUNs 0 to NUM. [Default: 0]
Scans for target device IDs 0 to 15. [Default: 0 to 7]
Enables scanning of channels 0 or 1. [Default: 0]
Enables removing of devices. [Default: Disabled]
Issues a Fibre Channel LIP reset. [Default: Disabled]
Rescans existing devices.
Removes and re-adds every device. (DANGEROUS)
Don't stop looking for LUNs if 0 is not found.
Use colored prefixes OLD/NEW/DEL.
Scans only hosts in LIST, where LIST is a comma-separated list of single
values and ranges. No spaces are allowed.
--hosts=A[-B][,C[-D]]
Scans only channels in LIST, where LIST is a comma-separated list of single
values and ranges. No spaces are allowed.
--channels=A[-B][,C[-D]]
Scans only target IDs in LIST, where LIST is a comma-separated list of single
values and ranges. No spaces are allowed.
--ids=A[-B][,C[-D]]
Scans only LUNs in LIST, where LIST is a comma-separated list of single
values and ranges. No spaces are allowed.
--luns=A[-B][,C[-D]]
rescan-scsi-

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