How to backup your Brocade SAN switches

Many customers repeatedly ask me same question "How we can take backup for configuration of our Brocade SAN switches"?

Now doubt , it is important to take configuration of your san switches which includes fabric configuration , zones information etc.

Now for that purpose ,you may use the FOS command: configupload.

For this, you also need to get a ftp server that is contactable by your switches management IP. This FTP server can be any windows 2000 server or even your own workstation. Now if you want your own workstation to act as FTP server, you have to download ftp server softwares which include both free and commercial software like winftp.

When you execute the configupload command from your SAN switch FOS command line, you will have to specify the server ip, user name, password and directory where you want to keep the files.

In next blog entry , i will highlight, how we can automate this process so that SAN admins would not have to execute configupload command manually.

rmnod.. is there any command like that on AIX?

Yesterday i made a mistake on AIX 6.1 system.. I created two special devices on same hdisk , while creating devices using mknod command.
These devices had to be used for Oracle ARC implementation. While searching on internet for any command like rmnod , i realized that there is no such command available atleast on AIX. Some variants of linux do have rmnod command , but not AIX...

So what should be solution? After long research i concluded that best way to resolve this problem would be to delete hdisk device itslef. I deleted the device using rmdev -dl hdisk7 and all corresponding special devices ( which i created using mknod command ) were gone... Happ enough result!!