The HBAnyware Utility User Manual Page 1
Introduction
Emulex® drivers have many properties that you can modify using the HBAnyware® configuration utility.
The utility is client/server based and provides 'remote' configuration capability to other host platforms
running the utility. This remote configuration capability can be provided by either Fibre Channel (FC)
access (host systems on the same FC Storage Area Network (SAN) or by Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) access (from IP addresses of remote machines). The HBAnyware
utility also enables local discovery of Emulex and OEM branded Emulex host bus adapters (HBAs).
This manual supports the following versions of the HBAnyware application.
• Windows
• Solaris LPFC
• Solaris emlxs (SFS)
• Linux
• VMware ESX Server
• Use the HBAnyware utility to do any of the following (see Table1 to determine if a specific
feature or task is supported by your operating system):
• Discover local and remote hosts, HBAs, targets and Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs)
• Enable local and FC discovery of Emulex and OEM branded Emulex HBAs
• Reset HBAs
• Set up persistent binding
• Set HBA driver parameters simultaneously to multiple HBAs using Batch Update
• Set global driver parameters to HBAs
• Update firmware and FC boot code (x86 BootBIOS, OpenBoot or EFIBoot) on a single
HBA or multiple HBAs using Batch Update
• Enable or disable the x86 BootBIOS
• Run diagnostic tests on HBAs
• Manage local, FC remote and TCP/IP accessed HBAs
• Locate HBAs using beaconing
• Mask and unmask LUNS
• Perform authentication using the Fibre Channel Security Protocol Diffie-Hellman Chal-
lenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (FC-SP DH-CHAP)