Selection Of Switches - Qlogic Fast Fabric User Manual

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For example:
i9k229:0
i9k229:0,1,5
192.168.0.5:0,1,5
NOTE:
This format is used by cmdall and chassis firmware update. This format
may be used anyplace a chassis name or IP address is valid, such as the -H
option, the CHASSIS environment variable or chassis list files. The slot
number specified is ignored on some operations (such as pingall). Only slots
containing management cards, EVICs and FVICs may be specified with this
format. For all 9000 series chassis, slot 0 is always an alias for the presently
active management card for the chassis. For the remainder of slot usages in
the chassis, the chassisQuery command can be executed against a given
chassis to identify which slots have management, EVIC or FVIC cards.
NOTE:
5.1.8

Selection of Switches

For operations that are performed against a set of fixed configuration
externally-managed switches, there are multiple ways to specify the switch on
which to operate:
1. Small sets of switches can be easily specified on the command line via the -N
option discussed below.
2. When multiple commands will be performed against the same small set of
switches, the environment variable IBNODES can be used to specify a space
separate lists of switches
3. For groups of switches which will be used often, a file may be created listing
the switches. The defauilt file is /etc/sysconfig/iba/ibnodes that should
list all switches in the cluster. Such a file may then be specified via the -L
command line option or the IBNODES_FILE environment variable.
Within the tools the options are considered in the following order, the first item
listed below which is specified is used for the given command.
1. -N option
2. IBNODES environment variable
3. -L option
D000006-000 Rev A
There must be no spaces within the chassis name and/or slot list.
For any operation, care should be taken that a given chassis is listed only
once with all relevant slots as part of that single specification. This is
important so that parallel operations do not cause conflicting concurrent
operations against a given chassis.
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