Specifications

7–6 CLI Commands
ADD CONNECTIONS
Adds the specified host connection to the table of known connections. This table is
maintained in NVRAM. The maximum table length is 32 connections; if the table
contains 32 entries, new connections cannot be added unless some old ones are
deleted.
There are two mechanisms for adding a new connection to the table, as follows:
■ Physically connecting a host adapter to a controller port. During initialization, the
controller becomes aware of the connection and adds it to the table. This physical
discovery of connections occurs at the point when a host adapter is plugged in to
a controller port and after issuing a RESTART command. New connections
discovered through physical connection are assigned a default connection name
by the controller. The default connection name is of the form !NEWCONnn.
NOTE: Certain host conditions, such as a power cycle, that disturb the state of the
switched fabric may cause a connection to reappear in the table. The connection
will be assigned a default connection name.
■ Adding a connection through the ADD CONNECTIONS command.
NOTE: ADD CONNECTIONS will add an entry to the table whether the connection
physically exists or not. The table can be completely filled up with fictitious
connections.
Syntax
ADD CONNECTIONS connection_name HOST_ID=n ADAPTER_ID=n
CONTROLLER=controller PORT=n
Parameters
connection_name
The name that will be assigned to the host connection. The connection name can be
any character string with one exception: it cannot be in the form of a default
connection name. The form of a default connection name is !NEWCONnn.