Unconfiguring Devices; Displaying Configured Disks And Attributes - IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 Administrator's Manual

CLI command
At the command prompt, enter cfgmgr.
SMIT fastpath
The SMIT menu fastpath command to configure a device is smit cfgmgr.
WebSM
To configure a device using WebSM, do the following: NAS Management→NAS
System→ Node (Server IP Address) →Devices→Overview and Tasks→Discover
devices that were powered on after the last system restart.

Unconfiguring devices

You can move a device to a defined state so that the device is inaccessible. If
necessary, you can delete the definition of the device from the system database. All
child devices, if any, receive the same action.
CLI command
At the command prompt, enter rmdev. You can choose to delete the definition of
the device from the system's database or simply move the device to a defined state
so that the data on the device is inaccessible.
Refer to the IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 Command Reference for more
information about the syntax for the rmdev command.
SMIT fastpath
In SMIT, you can remove fibre-channel adapters, Ethernet adapters, and disks. The
SMIT fastpath for this function is smit rmdev.
WebSM
To unconfigure disks, do the following: NAS Management→NAS System→ Node
(Server IP Address) →Devices→Disks→. (right-click the disk) →Take Offline (Make
Defined) or Delete.

Displaying configured disks and attributes

You can verify that disks are configured and ready for use in a volume.
CLI command
At the command prompt, enter the lspvol command. This displays the disks, the
PVID, the volume it is a part of, as well as a description. To display attributes of a
disk, such as the size, you can specify the disk.
For more information about displaying the size of a storage device, see "Displaying
the size of a local disk" on page 121.
To view the configured disks on a system at the command prompt, enter lspvol. To
view the attributes for hdisk4 on the system, enter lspvol hdisk4.
SMIT fastpath
The SMIT fastpath to view the configured disks is smit lspvol. To view the disk's
attributes, use smit lspvoldisk.
WebSM
To view the configured disks on a system, do the following: NAS
Management→NAS System→ Node (Server IP Address) →Devices→Disks→(right-
click a disk)Attributes.
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