To SANCP, the term "WWID", unless otherwise qualified, refers to the system's view of the set of all paths to a single port on a SAN storage device without regard to which drivers provide the paths. When a WWID is modified with the SET command, all paths are affected More generally, WWIDs are World-Wide unique Identifiers which are assigned to a FibreChannel port by its device's manufacturer. Each port will have a Node WWID and a Port WWID - since the Node WWID can be used to group Port WWIDs on the same device, only the Port WWID is guaranteed to be unique within a Fabric
1 – WWID Formats
A WWID passed to SANCP can be in any of the formats in which WWIDs are commonly displayed, so the output of any of the following commands can be easily cut & pasted into a SANCP command line: SDA> FC SHOW STDT WWID format 50001FE1000180b1 SDA> FC SHOW WTID WWID format 5000.1FE1.0001.80A0 $ SHOW DEVICE $1$DGA3420 /MULTI WWID format PGC0.5000-1FE1-0011-B15C The port specification in the SHOW DEVICE format will be ignored
2 – WWID Wildcards
A WWID term is a sequence of hex digits delimited by a period, a dash or the beginning or end of the string "%" can be used any number of times, up to the legal length of a term, to wildcard a single hex digit "*" can be used once within a term to wildcard 0 to N hex digits, but sequences of "*" will be collapsed to a single use and count as 1 Legal wildcard uses: 50*1000180b1 *.*FE1.%%01.80A% PGC0.5%%0-1*1-0011-B15* Illegal wildcard uses: 50*001*080b1 - too many multi-char wildcards 5000.%%%%%.0001.80A0 - too many single-char wildcards