Let's say you've just added an Emulex FC HBA or two to your Solaris box. Let's also say that you booted the machine before you hooked up the fibre, zoned the switch and presented some storage.
Having trouble? Can't see your storage? Does your 'cfgadm -al' output look like this:
c11 fc-fabric connected unconfigured unknown
Yeah, me too. Turns out the Emulex cards are a bit shy. You can poke them into life with the following:
luxadm -e forcelip /dev/cfg/c11
Change the c11 to whatever the device ID is for your card.
Tread carefully fellow admins - don't do this on an HBA that's already handling mounted storage - it resets all the ports on the loop, so you might lose sight of your storage for a second or two.
Never had to do any of this with QLogic cards...
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