Overview

The Emulex SDK Utility (elxsdkutil) provides a working example of a management utility, including reference code. This utility can be used to incorporate similar functionality into an existing product or to develop a custom utility. The elxsdkutil is applicable to the Emulex Service Level Interface - 4 (SLI-4) family of products (for example, Emulex LightPulse® LPe16000/LPe16002 16GFC host bus adapters).

The following figure shows the high-level relationship between the elxsdkutil, a OneCore Storage driver (kernel space or user space), and an SLI-4 product.

Relationship of the elxsdkutil with a OneCore Storage Driver

For detailed information about the elxsdkutil commands and design, also see the OneCore Storage Utilities Manual.

Commands and Their Usage

Main Components of the elxsdkutil Structure

• Command Line Parsing and Execution
  • Command Handlers
• Device Enumeration
• Flash File Parsing (Using “file-info”)
• Flash Access
• Mailbox Command Construction
• Device Management API
  • Management Status
  • Management Configuration
  • Management Actions
  • Data Formats
  • Lists of Properties
  • Identifying Individual Properties
  • Data Structures

OCe14000-series Adapters

• Firmware Download API
• FAT File API
• EFD File API
• Flash Access APIs

LPe16000-series Adapters

• Data Object Management API
• Data Object Groups