Friday, February 10, 2012

Setboot hardware path to legacy hardware path


HP-UX 11.23
setboot provides output only including the hardware path (ioscan -H).
When calculating DRD clone targets and such you need the regular legacy device path.
Here is a converter, built with a little help from JRF on the ITRC forums.
First get the setboot path. Might want to use the full path of the setboot command in practice.
pboot=$(setboot | grep ^Primary | awk ‘{ print $NF }’);
aboot=$(setboot | grep ^Alternate |awk ‘{ print $NF}’);
abootdisk=$(ioscan -kfnCdisk | awk -v aboot=${aboot} ‘/aboot/ $0~aboot {getline;print aboot,$2}’ | awk ‘{ print $2 }’);
pbootdisk=$(ioscan -kfnCdisk | awk -v aboot=${pboot} ‘/pboot/ $0~pboot {getline;print pboot,$2}’ | awk ‘{ print $2 }’);
The slick part is getting the variable in and out of awk.
Uses ioscan.

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