scsi_id examples on RHEL6

scsi_id examples in RHEL6,SL6,CentOS6

scsi_id is a tool to retrieve and generate a unique SCSI identifier, it's being widly used lots of system admin tools, primarily used by udev.

 

Also, the usage has been changed on RHEL6/SL6.

Marjor changes on RHEL6 are that by  default all devices are assumed black listed.

  --whitelisted option must be specified on the command line or in the config file 
    for any useful behaviour, as well less options for the command.

# scsi_id -h
Usage: scsi_id OPTIONS <device>
  --device=                     device node for SG_IO commands
  --config=                     location of config file
  --page=0x80|0x83|pre-spc3-83  SCSI page (0x80, 0x83, pre-spc3-83)
  --sg-version=3|4              use SGv3 or SGv4
  --blacklisted                 threat device as blacklisted
  --whitelisted                 threat device as whitelisted
  --replace-whitespace          replace all whitespaces by underscores
  --verbose                     verbose logging
  --version                     print version
  --export                      print values as environment keys
  --help                        print this help text

# scsi_id --version
147

Get Vendor, module and SN of device

# scsi_id --page 0x80 --whitelisted --device=/dev/sda
SLSI     Logical Volume   394949227760212329
# scsi_id --page 0x80 --whitelisted --device=/dev/sdb
SIBM     1818      FAStTSV14408879     

Get device WWNA

Default is page code is 0x83, to get WWNA
# scsi_id --whitelisted --device=/dev/sda
3600508e000000000357868eb69c49603
# scsi_id --whitelisted --device=/dev/sdb
360080e50002d26520000067a4f7a3f

List of VPD pages

  --page=0x80|0x83|pre-spc3-83|0x80-0x83|0x83-0x80
  Use SCSI INQUIRY VPD page code 0x80, 0x83, or pre-spc3-83.

  The default behaviour is to query the available VPD pages, and use page 0x83 if found, 
  else page 0x80 if found, else nothing.

  Page pre-spc3-83 should only be utilized for those scsi devices which are not compliant with 
  the SPC-2 or SPC-3 format for page 83.  While this option is used for older model 4, 5, 
  and 6 EMC Symmetrix devices, its use with SPC-2 or SPC-3 compliant devices will fallback to 
  the page 83 format supported by these devices.

  0x80-0x83 is like 0x80, and exports ID_SERIAL and ID_SERIAL_80, 
      but also exports 0x83 in ID_SERIAL_83.
  0x83-0x80 is like 0x83, and exports ID_SERIAL and ID_SERIAL_83, 
      but also exports 0x80 in ID_SERIAL_80.

You can also reformat the output

--replace-whitespace
    Reformat the output : replace all whitespaces by underscores

# scsi_id -p 0x80 --whitelisted --device=/dev/sdb --replace-whitespace
SIBM_1818_FAStTSV14408879