How to rescan and recover LUN paths in a host after modifying SLM reporting nodes

Microsoft Windows hosts:

• Rescan after add-reporting-nodes and remove-reporting-nodes using Windows GUI.
  1. Open Computer Management (Local)
  2. In the console tree, click Computer Management (Local) >> Storage >> Disk Management
  3. In the disk management page click Action >> Rescan Disks. This will rescan all the disks and update any path changes.
• Rescan after add-reporting-nodes and remove-reporting-nodes using command line.
  1. Open Command Prompt and enter the following text:
     # diskpart
  2. At the DISKPART> prompt, enter the following text:
     DISKPART> rescan.
     This will rescan all the disks and updates any path changes. For more information, see Microsoft TechNet Updatedisk.
  3.  
     Linux hosts:
  4. Rescan after add-reporting-nodes.
     1. Starting RHEL 6.5 & RHEL 7.0 onwards, run the following command to update active/optimized paths afteradd-reporting-nodes:
        # /usr/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh –a
     2. For RHEL 5 and RHEL 6.4 (including previous updates), run the following command to update active/optimized paths after add-reporting-nodes:
        # /usr/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh
        Note: Nothing additional has to be done in the multipath layer.
  5. Rescan after remove-reporting-nodes
     1. Separate rescan steps are required for SCSI layer and Multipathing layer in Linux storage stack to clean up stale disk paths after remove-reporting-nodes in SLM.
     2. Run the following command to remove stale LUN paths in SCSI layer
        # /usr/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh –r
     3. Next run the following command to remove stale LUN paths in multipath layer:
        # multipath -r
        
        Solaris hosts:
     4. Rescan after add-reporting-nodes
        1. For iSCSI LUNs, run the following command:
           # devfsadm -i iscsi
        2. For FC/FCoE LUNs, perform the following steps:
           1. Run the following command to identify OS Device name of the HBA ports that are accessing NetApp LUNs:
              # cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev | grep fc-fabric
c3 fc-fabric connected configured unknown
c4 fc-fabric connected configured unknown
           2. Now run the following command for each <controller> to be rescanned:
              # cfgadm -c configure <controller>
              For example from Step1 c3 & c4 are the controller names and so the command would be:
# cfgadm -c configure c3
# cfgadm -c configure c4
     5. Rescan after remove-reporting-nodes
        1. For iSCSI LUNs, run the following command:
           # devfsadm -i iscsi
# devfsadm -Cv
        2. For FC/FCoE LUNs, perform the following steps:
           1. If the host is accessing NetApp LUNs using a single FC port, then it is advised to reboot the host. Run the following commands to reconfigure and reboot the host.
              # touch /reconfigure
# init 6
           2. But if host is accessing NetApp LUNs with 2 or more FC ports, then run the following commands to identify OS Device names of the HBA ports:
              # cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev | grep fc-fabric
c3 fc-fabric connected configured unknown
c4 fc-fabric connected configured unknown
           3. Run the following command to reconfigure each port one after the other:
              # cfgadm -c unconfigure <controller>
# cfgadm -c configure <controller>
              For example from above output c3 & c4 are the controller names and so the commands would be similar to the following:
              # cfgadm -c unconfigure c3
# cfgadm -c configure c3
# cfgadm -c unconfigure c4
# cfgadm -c configure c4
              Note: Above step should be peformed only for one port at a time.
           4. Run the following command to clean up the devices:
              # devfsadm -Cv
           5. To clear MPxIO entries, an OS reboot is needed and this can be performed during a planned downtime. Run the following command to reconfigure and reboot the host:
              # touch /reconfigure
# init 6
           6. Once the host is back after reboot, run the following command :
              # devfsadm -Cv
     6.