Comments on: Extend System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Collect Fibre Channel HBA Information – Revised

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:03:30 +0000

I also got an error when installing on Win2008…you get it because it is trying to create a WMI class that already exists (MSFC_FCAdapterHBAAttributes). In my case the utility was still put in place and I could use it. You actually don’t need to install fcinfo to use the command…just make sure FCINFO.EXE, HBAAPI.DLL, HBATAPI.DLL are all in a common folder.

You can try querying the MSFC_FCAdapterHBAAttributes class directly, but in my experience the information from WMI was not reliable.

By: Franco

Franco — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:17:26 +0000

Sorry for the double post.

I tried disabling UAC and the same result. The script runs perfectly when I’m logged in the server, but doesn’t works from the task in SCCM.
¿Some special conditions in Environment tab of the task’s program?

Thanks for the help once more, and one more time, sorry my english.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:41:31 +0000

Hi Franco.

I tested the script on Win2003 (64bit and 32bit) and on Win2008 R2…it worked great for me so I am confused. If you run fcinfo from a command prompt on the server do you get HBA info returned? I suppose it could be UAC related…you might try disabling UAC temporarily to verify.

Good luck,
Steve

By: Franco

Franco — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:44:27 +0000

Hi. Thanks for the post, is really usefull.
I follow all the steps, but the script doesn’t work in Windows Server 2008.
HPinfo is installed, and the script works when I run it using my account and logged into the server. But when the script runs using SCCM tasks, the log says “fcinfo.exe could not be found. Exiting script.”.
Can be UAC? Can elevate script execution?

Thaks for the help and sorry my english.

By: Franco

Franco — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:32:10 +0000

Hi. Thanks for this tutorial.

I’m tryng to get data from my HBAs, but in Windows Server 2008, the script doesn’t work.

I get this error:
GetHBAInfo.vbs executing on RAFAEL
System appears to be 64bit. Setting execution path to ‘%WinDir%\Sysnative’
Adding ‘%WinDir%\Sysnative’ to PATH statement.
Retrun code from appending to PATH: 0
Executing ‘fcinfo.exe /details’ command
Retrun code from executing command: -2147024894
fcinfo.exe could not be found. Exiting script.

Thanks for your help and sorry my english.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:54:01 +0000

I have updated the post and the process listed now does work correctly.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:33:29 +0000

I look forward in reading your next post.

Thanks
Mike

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:44:48 +0000

MIke, thanks for commenting. I am ashamed to say that this method I posted does not work reliably. The HBA info in the microsoft WMI namespace for some reason just disappears. I wrote a new way of doing the same thing and will post on it soon.

The data is viewable in Resource explorer…I will comment on that in the blog post as well.

Thanks,
Steve

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:00:18 +0000

This is good information.
Will this show up in resource explorer or will I have to write a report to see the data?

Thanks for sharing.

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