Will symcfg -sid 123 -SA 7C -p 1 offline have any effect on 7C Port 0

If this helps, the Symm is a DMX3-24  with enginuity version 5771.

it should not; Definitly wait for one more vote before you touch the production

You shouldnt need to off the port to set those flags.  If you were setting those for certain hosts you would want to reset their negotiation so they pick up those flags once they are set; a reboot of bounce of the connection will do that.

Thank you SKT, Robert Dudley and Dynamox. So has anyone done this and observed that only 7C:1 will get affected and it will not in any ways impact 7C:0 ? Please let me know.

Hi Dynamox, thanks for the replies. Yes, I can use the the hba flags option, but thing is we will have to do that every time we connect a host and I think its better setting it on the FA itself right now when I have the option.

one alternative is to use hba_flags instead of using FA flags, take a look as symmask man pages.

yes, you have to offline FAs to set those flags, did that a few months ago.

hpemc wrote: Hi Dynamox, thanks for the replies. Yes, I can use the the hba flags option, but thing is we will have to do that every time we connect a host and I think its better setting it on the FA itself right now when I have the option.

if systems connected to these FAs require pretty much same FAs ..i would do that as well.

Hi Dynamox, RobertDudley,SKT, Thank you very much. You all have been very helpful. Have a nice day.

yes, if you issue command

symcfg -SA 7C -P 1 -sid 123 offline

it will only effect port 7C:1

thanks for the correction D.  I usually set them at the WWN level unless everythign needs them.  one thign we started doing was having EMC set all the flaags that may be needed and then disabling the not needed ones at the WWN level.  Most hosts seem to need most all of them now anyway.

Hi,

Thank you all. It worked fine. I am having issues now where I am not able to set the OS2007 Flag on DMX2000 Microcode 5671 with symcli 7.3. Earlier I was able to set on a different DMX 1000 with Microcode 5671  with symcli 7.1. Also able to set the flag on a DMX3 with Microcode 5771. I have opened a case with EMC and also posted the question in the forum. No help from EMC as of now.

RobertDudley wrote: thanks for the correction D.  I usually set them at the WWN level unless everythign needs them.  one thign we started doing was having EMC set all the flaags that may be needed and then disabling the not needed ones at the WWN level.  Most hosts seem to need most all of them now anyway.

agree, with our open systems (windows/aix/linux/esx) and default VMAX flags everything works ..the only thing that we do extra is set the "Disable_Q_Reset_on_UA" for Linux using hba_flags.