Topics: AIX, Hardware, System Admin

Identifying devices with usysident

There is a LED which you can turn on to identify a device, which can be useful if you need to replace a device. It's the same binary as being used by diag.

To show the syntax: 

# /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/usysident ? 
usage: usysident [-s {normal | identify}] 
                 [-l location code | -d device name]
       usysident [-t]
To check the LED status of the system: 
# /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/usysident 
normal
To check the LED status of /dev/hdisk1: 
# /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/usysident -d hdisk1 
normal
To activate the LED of /dev/hdisk1: 
# /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/usysident -s identify -d hdisk1 
# /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/usysident -d hdisk1 
identify
To turn of the LED again of /dev/hdisk1: 
# /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/usysident -s normal -d hdisk1 
# /usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/usysident -d hdisk1 
normal
Keep in mind that activating the LED of a particular device does not activate the LED of the system panel. You can achieve that if you omit the device parameter.



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