SCSI Persistent Reservation Utilities Release Notes, May 2012

Overview of sg3_utils

This document provides an overview of sg3_utils which is an open source utility package that

has been ported to work with the HP-UX operating system. This software is distributed under the

GPL version 2. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the licensing information provided with the package.

The sg3_utils package contains utilities that send SCSI commands to devices by using a SCSI

command set. Apart from SCSI parallel interface (SPI) devices, the SCSI command set is used by

ATAPI devices (CD/DVDs and tapes), USB mass storage devices, Fiber Channel disks, IEEE 1394

storage devices (that use the Serial Bus Protocol (SBP)), SAS, iSCSI and FCoE devices (amongst

others). The common set of commands is referred to as the SCSI Primary Commands (SPC) with

SPC-3 being the most recent standard. More information regarding sg3_utils can be found at:

http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html.

Components of HP-UX Port of sg3_utils

sg3_utils package contains a utility that allows querying and changing Persistent Reservations

and Registrations on a disk.

The package also contains the licensing information, credits, README files, and man pages for

sg_persist(8) and sg3_utils(8). The executables and library can be built and installed

from the source code in the tarball.

Table 1 sg3_utils components

FilesPath

sg_persist/usr/bin/

AUTHORS/opt/sg3utils/

BSD_LICENSE

COPYING

CREDITS

INSTALL

README

README.hpux

sg3_utils_src.tar.gz

libsgutils.so/usr/lib/hpux32/

libsgutils.so.1

libsgutils.so/usr/lib/hpux64/

libsgutils.so.1

sg3_utils.8/usr/share/man/man8.Z/

sg_persist.8

What's New in this Version

sg3_utils version B.01.31.01 supports multipathing.