devices are mapped to FA's without masking view

Hi john,

Am not sure Its too late to answer, since am new to this community,

We can map the devices without creating View in Vmax_SE , by using Map dev command , but can't Mask by using any symmask command, But am not sure how  Devices are automatically mapped, may be  some other storage admin working on it , 

Thanks

Hello John,

If you are not sure who did it and you want to find out what happened in last two weeks? check the symaudit logs.

symaudit -sid XXX list -start mm/dd/yyyy -end mm/dd/yyyy >audit.txt

Regards,

Saurabh

are they masked as well ?

symaccess -sid list assignment -dev -v

Hey Saurabh,

Nice Command though, I never used it.

thanks

This is a pretty new VMAX-SE and I am the only storage admin for it and I have only used SMC for managing the  VMAX till now not CLI .So I do not understand how the devices were mapped to FA ports.

Thannks Saurabh, will run the audit command when I go to work tomorrow moring.

Dynamox,

here is the optput for a device which is mapped to FA 7e1,7f1, 8e1,8f1. As I said I myself did not map it to those FA's

C:\Documents and Settings\john121>symaccess -sid 22 list assignment -dev 024c -v

Symmetrix ID : 000194900830

Device No.   : 024C

  Identifier : N/A
  Type       : N/A
  Directors  : N/A

C:\Users\john121>symdev show -sid 30 24c

can you post output from "symdev show -sid 22 24c"  ..(scramble your array serial number)

If the gremlins is doing the work that's fine dynamox but, if they come on the payday to demand the pay for the workdone then sure that will be a problem .

hmm..device is not ready (NR) so it's not bound to a pool. Maybe you have gremlins doing the work while you are asleep but they forgot to bound it to the pool first ?

John,

look through symapi logs for something like this:

12/27/2010 11:34:28.063   6532   4940 EMC:SYMCONFIGURE          iCfgChgSessionStart  Starting a local CfgChg session for SID 000290100123, symapi V7.1-1026 (1.0) ucode 5773
12/27/2010 11:34:31.704   6532   4940     Establishing session with Local cfg srvr (000290100123)...Established.
12/27/2010 11:34:31.704   6532   4940     Session ID    2503169 (0x00263201)
12/27/2010 11:34:37.766   6532   4940     {
12/27/2010 11:34:37.782   6532   4940       map dev 1C3A to dir 7C:0  lun=2EA;
12/27/2010 11:34:37.782   6532   4940       map dev 1C3A to dir 10C:0  lun=2EA;
12/27/2010 11:34:37.782   6532   4940       map dev 1C8B to dir 7C:0  lun=2EB;
12/27/2010 11:34:37.782   6532   4940       map dev 1C8B to dir 10C:0  lun=2EB;
12/27/2010 11:34:37.797   6532   4940     }
12/27/2010 11:34:45.157   6532   4940     Submitting configuration changes..........................Submitted.
12/27/2010 11:35:04.657   6532   4940     Validating configuration changes..........................Validated.
12/27/2010 11:35:04.719   6532   4940     Initiating PREPARE of configuration changes...............Prepared.
12/27/2010 11:35:05.141   6532   4940     Initiating COMMIT of configuration changes................Queued.
12/27/2010 11:36:40.110   6532   4940     COMMIT requesting required resources......................Obtained.
12/27/2010 11:36:42.485   6532   4940     Step 002 of 013 steps.....................................Executing.
12/27/2010 11:37:03.719   6532   4940     Step 003 of 013 steps.....................................Executing.
12/27/2010 11:37:11.079   6532   4940     Step 006 of 013 steps.....................................Executing.
12/27/2010 11:37:18.438   6532   4940     Step 010 of 013 steps.....................................Executing.
12/27/2010 11:37:43.313   6532   4940     Step 013 of 013 steps.....................................Executing.
12/27/2010 11:37:55.297   6532   4940     Polling...................................................Timed out.
12/27/2010 11:38:06.657   6532   4940     Polling...................................................Timed out.
12/27/2010 11:38:19.329   6532   4940     Polling...................................................Timed out.
12/27/2010 11:38:28.704   6532   4940     Local:  COMMIT............................................Done.
12/27/2010 11:38:28.750   6532   4940 EMC:SYMCONFIGURE          process_load_request   Switching to FULL load for 
000290100123 because the configuration changed (new chksum: 22B3896C  old: 9CFA5B93)

Dynamox,

I created thin devices and I added/binded some tdevs devices to the pool and I have many tdev devices which I have not yet added to the pool.

I think the gremlins did not care about if they are bind/added to the pool. I see all the devices except 3 devices mapped to the mentioned FA's.

I opened SR with EMC and they dailed to my VMAX and said they had no info on who mapped to the fa's and simply gave a suggestion to unmap all the relavent devices using scrips . 

Hello John,

Symaudit logs will tell you everything who mapped the devices and at what time? It captures everything be it from Solution Enabler or SMC.

Regards,

Saurabh

I checked the audit file, I do not understand some items.

    260  12/13/10 12:06:40  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  DevMask  Create 

    261  12/13/10 12:06:41  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  DevMask  Create 

    262  12/13/10 12:06:41  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  DevMask  Create 

    263  12/13/10 12:06:40  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  DevMask  Create 

    264  12/13/10 12:09:23  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  CfgChg   Commit 

    265  12/13/10 12:09:23  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  CfgChg   Commit 

    266  12/13/10 12:09:23  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  CfgChg   Commit 

    267  12/13/10 12:09:23  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  CfgChg   Commit 

    268  12/13/10 12:09:23  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  CfgChg   Commit 

    269  12/13/10 12:09:30  SWPROC                        CfgChg   Map    

    270  12/13/10 12:09:35  SMC              XXXXXXXXXX  CfgChg   Commit 

what is swproc and  smyaccess?

455  12/14/10 16:39:45  SYMACCESS        XXXXXXXXXX  Security Denied 

    456  12/14/10 16:39:47  SYMACCESS        XXXXXXXXXX  Security Denied 

    457  12/14/10 16:39:52  SYMACCESS        XXXXXXXXXX  Security Denied

4029  12/21/10 13:29:59  SMC              SMCSERVER    Base     Remove 

   4030  12/21/10 16:39:17  SYMACCESS        XXXXXXXXXX  DevMask  BegBckup

   4031  12/21/10 16:39:17  SYMACCESS        XXXXXXXXXX  DevMask  EndBckup

Also, I do not see any symcli on my audit.txt

It shows username as