A very small script to check the masking information for each of the cloned devices.

A very small script to check the masking information for each of the cloned devices.

Script to convert HBA WWNs to lowercase and add ":"

I hope that SAN Admins find this helpful.

Whenever HBA WWNs are entered in Cisco SAN Switches on the command line prompt, A colon (:) character needs to be added at every second position in the WWN. Also, the WWN has to be lower case.

So in case you get a WWN like so - 10000000C9ABCDEF it needs to be converted to lower case and : needs to be added. The following script does this.

Here it adds ":" and lowercase. It a…

My First Post.

Hi, I am a Storage Administrator. I was on a lookout for a scripting language that would help me automate some of the work that I do. Started learning Perl, but it was ( and still is) a sort of intermittent process. Work load has a tendency to mount when you least expect and I end up not learning/writing Perl for days together.

Signed up here to write about Perl. I am still in the learning phase, yet, I'll post whatever small scripts I write.


It saddens me when, without any valid research, some people, even a few of my colleagues bemoan the state of Perl. They think th…