hpshowdisk

Synopsis

hpshowdisk -v | -h | -n | -I <idx> | -p| -d | -s

Description

The hpshowdisk utility helps with the identification of the disks recognized by the system. It can be very useful in situations where the system has lots of disks, typically on SAN architectures. In addition to the device name and size, it includes information about disk controller, SAN storage devices WWID identifications, and the SAN logical disks LUN numbers.

The hpshowdisk utility is internally used by SSTK scripts to display the “available disks” menu during installations. In addition, it is externally used with the RDP product, which by default it calls the RDP “showdisk” application; SSTK scripts use the -n option to avoid this external application call.

Table 6-17 Options

Options	Description
`-v \| --version`	Print the version.
`-h \| --help`	Print help.
`-n \| --no-showdisk`	Do not use the Altiris RDP showdisk to find the device order.
`-i idx`	Device index.
`-p`	Dump PCI information for the device in this format: vendor:device:svendor:sdevice.
`-d`	Dump device name for device.
`-s`	Dump the disk size.

Examples

The following example shows the hpshowdisk output for an HP Integrity system with 19 disks of the following configuration:

5 smart array disks (disks 15 to 19)
3 SAN disks through q-logic HBA cards (disks 9 to 11)
6 SAN disks through emulex HBA cards (disks 3 to 8)
5 LSI disks through emulex HBA cards (disks 1, 2, 12, 13 and 14)

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