topic Re: SMcli Configuration File broken in EF & E-Series, SANtricity, and Related Plug-ins

SMcli Configuration File broken

A_Clutton — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:21:35 GMT

Hey Guys

I wonder if anyone has seen this problem. Basically when you run the command "SMcli -d" it shows you a list of the connected SANs the software knows about. Somehow one of our users has manged to add two of the same SAN to the configuration and now we can't remove it. I can remove the last entry fine but not the first two (as they are the same).

Does anyone know where the configuration file is located?

See below (I redacted the names). Any ideas?

Trying to remove it:

Re: SMcli Configuration File broken

Jeff_Yao — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:25:28 GMT

https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_get_file/ECMP1394151

page 15-17 is talking about the syntax of smcli. hopefully helps

thanks

Jeff

Re: SMcli Configuration File broken

A_Clutton — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:33:14 GMT

Thanks Jeff

Unfortunatley the document doesn't state where it keeps the configuration files or anything.

I did however, after doing some searching, found that the SMcli configuration files are kept in /var/opt/SM/ (under Linux).

The files are called emwdata_v04.bin and emwback_v04.bin for 08.30+. Removing both of these files allowed us to setup the configuration file correctly.