Hi James, I agree, this topic has reached critical mass for a separate mailing list and project. I think this is definitely an area in Solaris that can be improved. I would be more than willing to support this either thru its own community or thru the Systems Administrator community.
Octave --- James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Octave Orgeron writes: > > prtdiag and cfgadm only help out so far. For example, prtdiag will > tell you what's on a pci slot, but it does not tell you what instance > that card matches up to. So you still have to look at > /etc/path_to_inst or the links /dev to figure that out. Cfgadm is > definitely handy, but again, it does not give a complete view. I can > see different "fc fabric" controlers, but I don't know which cards > those match up to, without looking in /dev/cfg. So when it comes to > commands, it would be nice to have a end-to-end view of things. So an > hba should be displayed as: > > Having to stare at /etc/path_to_inst to figure out how the devices > map > to the hardware sounds like a defect rather than a feature to me. > > That aside, it sounds like you have a lot of thoughts about how this > stuff ought to work. Would it be possible to proceed with setting up > the new project, and then continue this detailed conversation on a > new > mailing list for that project? I'm not sure that plumbing the depths > of /dev is really on-topic for opensolaris-discuss. > > -- > James Carlson, KISS Network > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 > 2084 > MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 > 1677 > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
