aoe-discover(8)

✨ aoe-discover ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the aoe-discover page from the System Manager's Manual 💅 this one's a lil baby command but it's lowkey iconic, let's go 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

aoe-discover — tell the aoe driver to discover AoE devices

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

aoe-discover

that's it. no flags. no arguments. she takes nothing and she slays ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So aoe-discover tells the aoe driver to go discover ATA over Ethernet (AoE) devices on the network. Like, all of them. Every network interface gets probed with an AoE config query broadcast. fr fr, she's out there knocking on doors 🚪✨

Now here's the tea 🍵: if the aoe-interfaces command has limited which network interfaces are allowable, then only the devices discovered via those allowable interfaces will actually become available. The default behavior — the no-restrictions, free-spirit, main-character mode — is to make available all AoE devices found on all accessible ethernet networks 🌈

pro tip from your girl: it's good to run aoe-discover after running aoe-interfaces. order matters bestie, it's giving sequence 💅

👑 EXAMPLE 👑

okay so in this example, the root user on a host named nai loads the aoe module with only eth0 allowable for AoE traffic. Then — plot twist 🫢 — this sysadmin remembers that shelf 7 is on eth3. So they use aoe-interfaces to add eth3 to the list of allowable network interfaces, and then calls aoe-discover to ask the aoe driver to go look for new AoE devices. obsessed.

nai:~# modprobe aoe aoe_iflist="eth0"
nai:~# aoe-stat
   e10.9            eth0              up
nai:~# aoe-interfaces eth0 eth3
nai:~# aoe-discover
nai:~# aoe-stat
    e7.0            eth3              up
    e7.1            eth3              up
    e7.2            eth3              up
    e7.3            eth3              up
    e7.4            eth3              up
    e7.5            eth3              up
    e7.6            eth3              up
    e7.7            eth3              up
    e7.8            eth3              up
    e7.9            eth3              up
   e10.9            eth0              up

look at all those e7.x devices popping up on eth3 🦋✨ ate and left no crumbs. and e10.9 is still chilling on eth0 like the loyal icon she is 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• aoe-interfaces(8)
• aoe-stat(8)
• aoetools(8)

go read those too, iykyk 📚

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Ed L. Cashin (ecashin@coraid.com)

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was aoe-discover(8) from the System Manager's Manual — sending you off with love, no cap 💖✨🫶