NAME¶
aoe-stat - print aoe device status report
SYNOPSIS¶
modprobe aoe
aoe-stat
env sysfs_dir=/sys aoe-stat
DESCRIPTION¶
The
aoe-stat script collects information on ATA over Ethernet devices
from sysfs.
For each AoE device the kernel has discovered, there is one row in the script's
output. Each row has the following columns.
- devicename
- The device name is of the form eX.Y,
with X being the AoE device shelf address, and Y being the
AoE slot address.
- size
- The size of the AoE device is in gigabytes (billions of bytes).
- ifname
- The network interface name is printed in the third column.
- payload
- The number of bytes read from or written to the storage target in each AoE
packet appears in the fourth column, unless the aoe driver does not export
this information.
- status
- The device status is in the last column. Possible values are up,
down, and down,closewait. The "up" status means
the aoe driver considers this device ready for I/O. The "down"
status means the opposite. The "down,closewait" status means
that some software still has the device open, and when this straggler
closes the device, it will enter the "down" state.
UNAVAILABLE TARGETS¶
If a discovered AoE target will not respond to I/O commands, some of the
information needed to allow Linux to use the device is not available. The
aoe-stat command shows the missing information as "(NA)"
fields.
It is normal for "(NA)" fields to appear during the brief time between
the time that an AoE target is detected and the time the Linux kernel finishes
reading its partition table.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
If the
sysfs_dir variable is set in the environment, it will override the
default location where
aoe-stat will look for sysfs, namely
/sys.
WARNINGS¶
If the minor device number of a device node does not match that of its namesake,
aoe-stat will print a warning as shown below.
-
nai:~# aoe-stat
e0.3 0.104GB eth0 up
e0.4 4398.046GB eth0 up
e20.0 1000.215GB eth0 up
e42.0 2000.431GB eth0 up
aoe-stat Warning: device node /dev/etherd/e45.1 has wrong minor device number
e45.1 1152.874GB eth0 up
Using such a device node is dangerous, because its name doesn't match the actual
device that you would be reading from and writing to. Such a broken device
node should be removed. Device nodes are created by
udev or (on systems
without
udev) by
aoe-mkdevs.
EXAMPLE¶
In this example, the root user on a host named
nai loads the aoe driver
module and then prints a list of all the available aoe devices. Then he
remembers to bring up the storage network interfaces, does an AoE discovery,
and prints the list again. This time the list shows all the devices in shelf
seven.
-
nai:~# modprobe aoe
nai:~# aoe-stat
nai:~# ifconfig eth3 up
nai:~# aoe-discover
nai:~# aoe-stat
e0.0 10995.116GB eth3 up
e0.1 10995.116GB eth3 up
e0.2 10995.116GB eth3 up
e1.0 1152.874GB eth3 up
e7.0 370.566GB eth3 up
nai:~#
SEE ALSO¶
aoe-discover(8),
aoe-interfaces(8),
aoe-mkdevs(8),
aoe-mkshelf(8),
aoetools(8),
udev(7).
AUTHOR¶
Ed L. Cashin (ecashin@coraid.com)