Q-Logic FC HBA CLI manual Auto Generate, User Generate, Help Menu, Command Line Option -h

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4 – Interactive Commands Help Menu (Command Line Option -h)

4.14.1.3.1

Auto Generate

14: Virtual 1: Virtual Menu 3: Create a Virtual Port 1: Auto Generate

When you select this option, the system creates a Virtual Port on this HBA physical port and reports the WWPN of the virtual port. For example:

Virtual Port 21-00-25-E0-8B-14-5A-CF created successfully on HBA instance 4.

To see the change to the virtual ports, you must manually refresh the configuration. Note that the second hexadecimal digit changes on the newly created virtual port.

4.14.1.3.2

User Generate

14: Virtual 1: Virtual Menu 3: Create a Virtual Port 2: User Generate

When you select this option, you are prompted to enter a hex digit for the new virtual port WWPN. This new hex number is assigned to the second field of the physical HBA port WWPN.

Enter Hex Pattern (xx) :

Type two hexadecimal digits. The system creates the new Virtual Port, for example:

(Create Virtual Port Menu) Enter Selection: 2

Enter Hex Pattern <xx>: EF

The system returns:

Virtual Port 21-00-EF-8B-14-5A-CF created successfully on HBA instance 4.

Note that the entered hex digits, EF, now appear in byte 2 of the new Virtual Port WWPN.

To see the change to the virtual ports, you must manually refresh the configuration.

4.15

Help Menu

(Command Line Option -h)

14 (or 15): Help

When you enter this option the Help Menu appears with the following options:

„Contents

„Exit Codes

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