npivgraph for visualizing NPIV mappings in a PowerVM environment

npivgraph is a Perl program designed to visualize the Virtual Fibre Channel (VFC) / NPIV adapter mappings in a PowerVM environment. 

It visualizes how VIO servers contain HBA's which are mapped to Virtual Fibre Server adapters, which are connected to Virtual Client Adatpers, which are attached to LPAR's. 

It also validates that the LPAR's have NPIV access through more than 1 VIO server, if not a red warning message is displayed (see screenshot below).

Here is a example screenshot:

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This can be helpful to validate your configuration is setup how you want and for documentation purposes.   It can also visually show which physical VIO HBA's might be over utilized or under utilized based on how many clients are attached to each HBA. 

npivgraph Screen Shots

This screen shot shows how the graph can optionally be filtered down to only include a specific VIO server (-v flag) and one of its specific HBA's (-f flag).  This can be very helpful for large systems where you need to break it up in to smaller graphs. 

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Here is a screen shot showing a single LPAR being graphed with the "-l" flag. 

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Installation / Use

Download the script from:  https://sourceforge.net/projects/npivgraph/files/

You must run the script from a server that has SSH keys setup with your HMC.  

Usage ./npivgraph.pl -h hmcserver -m managedsystem [-l lpar] [-f fcs] [-v vioserver]
 -h specifies hmcserver name (can also be username@hmc)
 -m specifies managed system name
 [-l lpar] only graph on specific lpar and its VIO servers
 [-f fcs]  only graph specified vio FCS adapter (i.e. - "-f fcs2")
 [-f vioserver]  only graph adapters on specified vio (i.e. - "-v vio1")

Examples:
Graph all:
   ./npivgraph.pl -h hscroot@hmcserver1 -m p520
Graph only fcs0 VIO adapter(s):
   ./npivgraph.pl -h hscroot@hmcserver1 -m p520 -f fcs0
Graph only aixtest01 LPAR:
   ./npivgraph.pl -h hscroot@hmcserver1 -m p520 -l aixtest01
Graph only things connected to vio2:
   ./npivgraph.pl -h hscroot@hmcserver1 -m p520 -v vio2
Graph only things connected to vio2 on fcs0:
   ./npivgraph.pl -h hscroot@hmcserver1 -m p520 -f fcs0 -v vio2

The script produces DOT code that Graphviz can turn in to a graph.  You will need to have Graphviz installed somewhere to produce the graph. 

You have the following options on where to install Graphviz:

If you have Graphviz installed on the computer you are running the script from you can run npivgraph.pl and pipe the output to the graphviz dot command to create the graph like this:

./npivgraph.pl -h hscroot@hmcserver1 -m p520 -f fcs0 -v vio2 | dot -Tpng -o npiv.png

If you have graphviz installed on a different computer from where you are running the npivgraph.pl script, do this:   Run npivgraph.pl and redirect the output to a file.   Transfer this file to where you have graphviz installed and run a command like this:


  cat output.txt | dot -Tpng -o npiv.png


Related scripts

http://pslot.sourceforge.net/

http://graphlvm.sourceforge.net/

About the author / Contacting the author

Script was written by Brian Smith.  I have an IBM developerWorks blog at:  Brian's AIX/UNIX/Linux blog

You can contact me at:   ixbrian at gmail dot com

License / Disclaimer

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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