Greetings,
We set up SAN client for the first time yesterday and it seems to work pretty good. SLES 11.3 master - 7.6.0.1, 5230 Appliance FT Media Server - 7.6.0.1, SLES 11.3 client - 7.5.0.5. However, I find that it takes up to an hour from the time I start the client service until the client is able to use FT. When I run /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/vxlogview -o 200 to look at the logs, I see these messages:
05/13/14 09:25:37.921 [FTClientMgrService::init] Client successfully started (FATClientMgrService.cpp:337)
05/13/14 09:25:37.960 [DiscoveryTaskThread] DiscoveryTask Thread 119613184 Startup
05/13/14 09:25:37.964 [AddDevice] /dev/sg340
Inquiry "SYMANTECFATPIPE 0.1 nbu05"
TargetHBA:LUN:InitiatorHBA = 0:1:0x50 State = 1 RefCount = 0
05/13/14 09:25:37.965 [AddDevice] /dev/sg339
Inquiry "SYMANTECFATPIPE 0.0 nbu05"
TargetHBA:LUN:InitiatorHBA = 0:0:0x50 State = 1 RefCount = 0
05/13/14 09:25:37.966 [AddDevice] /dev/sg383
Inquiry "SYMANTECFATPIPE 1.1 nbu04"
TargetHBA:LUN:InitiatorHBA = 1:1:0x50 State = 1 RefCount = 0
05/13/14 09:25:37.967 [AddDevice] /dev/sg382
Inquiry "SYMANTECFATPIPE 1.0 nbu04"
TargetHBA:LUN:InitiatorHBA = 1:0:0x50 State = 1 RefCount = 0
05/13/14 09:25:37.967 [AddDevice] /dev/sg381
Inquiry "SYMANTECFATPIPE 0.1 nbu04"
TargetHBA:LUN:InitiatorHBA = 0:1:0x50 State = 1 RefCount = 0
05/13/14 09:25:37.968 [AddDevice] /dev/sg380
Inquiry "SYMANTECFATPIPE 0.0 nbu04"
TargetHBA:LUN:InitiatorHBA = 0:0:0x50 State = 1 RefCount = 0
05/13/14 09:25:37.969 [AddDevice] /dev/sg379
Inquiry "SYMANTECFATPIPE 1.1 nbu05"
TargetHBA:LUN:InitiatorHBA = 1:1:0x50 State = 1 RefCount = 0
05/13/14 09:25:37.969 [AddDevice] /dev/sg378
Inquiry "SYMANTECFATPIPE 1.0 nbu05"
TargetHBA:LUN:InitiatorHBA = 1:0:0x50 State = 1 RefCount = 0
05/13/14 09:25:37.983 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 9 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:38.983 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 8 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:39.984 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 7 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:40.984 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 6 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:41.985 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 5 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:42.985 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 4 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:43.986 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 3 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:44.986 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 2 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:45.986 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 1 retries left
05/13/14 09:25:46.987 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg268 0 retries left
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05/13/14 09:47:25.735 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg123 7 retries left
05/13/14 09:47:26.736 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg123 6 retries left
05/13/14 09:47:27.736 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg123 5 retries left
05/13/14 09:47:28.737 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg123 4 retries left
05/13/14 09:47:29.737 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg123 3 retries left
05/13/14 09:47:30.738 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg123 2 retries left
05/13/14 09:47:31.738 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg123 1 retries left
05/13/14 09:47:32.738 [DeviceInquiry] called from DiscoverDevices EVPD Page 0x83 "" device name /dev/sg123 0 retries left
And it goes on like this for some time. It appears as though it scans through every /dev/sg device on the system. Is there a way to exclude what it's scanning or reduce the retry attempts? It's only after it's completed this scan that I can use the client over FT. On larger servers with hundreds of SAN devices and multiple paths per device, client startup will take forever.