Fabric Manager Users Guide, Version 6.1, Revision A - QLogic

6–Installation and Set Up
Installing the Host-based Fabric Manager on Linux
NOTE:
After installing the QLogic Fabric Manager, the user must reboot the server
or use the following startup procedures for the new installation to take effect.
Starting the Fabric Manager
1. Start the Fabric Manager:
/etc/init.d/qlogic_fm start.
2. Verify that all the tasks are up and running:
/etc/init.d/qlogic_fm status.
NOTE:
The default configuration runs QLogic Fabric Manager on port 1 of the first Host
Channel Adapter in the system.
qlogic_fm Options
To run the Fabric Manager on either port 2, or ports 1 and 2, the user must edit the
/etc/sysconfig/qlogic_fm.xml configuration file.
The following are the detailed options for qlogic_fm:
Syntax
/etc/init.d/qlogic_fm [start|stop|restart|reload|sweep|status] [-i instance] [-f]
[component|compname|insname]... ]
start
Start the selected instances/managers.
stop
Stop the selected instances/managers.
restart
Restart (for example, stop then start) the selected instances/managers.
reload
Reload the configuration for the selected instances and managers (this option
only handles changes to the parameters).
sweep
Force a fabric resweep for the selected instances/managers.
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